hi, for ages now I've been running 3 instances of squeezelite on debian VMs under VMware Workstation - all using Adrian's great Spotify plugin. It has been working perfectly. When I added a droid client (in the form of the excellent SqueezePlayer) I was constantly having issues with the SqueezePlayer client always starting first and could never get to the bottom of it. I've just been trying to understand why and came across this; http://blog.bryansmart.com/2012/02/16/low-latency-sound-for-vmware/
it appears that VMware is by default creating an additional buffer of 200ms (when the host is windows7 - my case) when it mixes the audio from the virtual audio device to the physical one. I've made the following changes to the vmx files on each of the squeezelite VMs; sound.autoDetect = "FALSE" sound.virtualDev = "es1371" pciSound.playBuffer = "30" and now the sync is very close even at the start of each Spotify song. Anything less than a 30ms buffer on the VMware side seems to cause distortion. Are there any changes that could be made to the design of squeezelite/SqueezePlayer/LMS to allow for this type of additional buffer or is there a change I can make to the squeezelite configuration to take this into account but still preserve sync even at the start of each track? thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ashleyw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58923 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
