I am outside the UK so some specifics may need to be corrected. Firstly, the speed of the streams are roughly the same regardless of format so that WMA, MP3, Flash/MP3 and Flash/AAC are all about 128kbits for UK suers (and about 48kbits/sec for non UK). However, there are some varations according to the stations (for example, I think R3 has a higher speed, 5live is Mono). So link speed is unlikely to be the problem. I think the WMA and AAC may be served from a different set of servers so this is potentially part of the problem.
Of the players mention only SB2 plays WMA natively which means for SB1, Softsqueeze and Squeezeplay - WMA is being transcoded on laptop into Flac and Flac is being sent on your WLAN. This is also true for AAC. This makes it very odd as SB2 should be playing WMA natively (unless Windows Media native decode is disabled on the server - please check) and no traffic between router and SB2. So if the stuttering problem is server related then the SB2 should be OK. You should try increasing the SB2 buffer (WebUI Settings/Advanced/Network/Radio Station Buffer Seconds) and see if it helps. I think the AAC decoding on the SBS may have bigger buffers compared to the WMA transcoding app and so avoid the stuttering. You can get an idea of buffer size difference by comparing the delay for AAC and WMA between pressing play and hearing music. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71891 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
