Stutter at start of track

[Drongo]

Hi, I have noticed that with both softsqueeze and the duet receiver there is often a slight stutter in the start of a track. This particularly happens when I start the first track or click next / previous. It is like the music startds for a few ms and then restarts. I thought it was softsqueeze before I got my duet but now it must either be squeezecenter itself or my QNAP NAS.
Note that using XBMC the tracks play perfectly.

Anybody got any idea

drongo

[nathan_h]

Hi, I have noticed that with both softsqueeze and the duet receiver there is often a slight stutter in the start of a track. This particularly happens when I start the first track or click next / previous. It is like the music startds for a few ms and then restarts. I thought it was softsqueeze before I got my duet but now it must either be squeezecenter itself or my QNAP NAS.
Note that using XBMC the tracks play perfectly.

Anybody got any idea

drongo

I've got no idea, either, but have noticed this when serving up flac files from an XP server and a Vista server to both a Squeezebox, SR, and Softsqueeze. Happens on pretty much random tracks and not necessarily when I have selected a particular track.

In my case, it is almost like one beat of the first or second measure is skipped at the beginning of a song.

The fact that you posted this 4 months ago, and I'm the first person to respond makes me nervous. Did we just enter the twilight on this one?

[ntang]

I've got no idea, either, but have noticed this when serving up flac files from an XP server and a Vista server to both a Squeezebox, SR, and Softsqueeze. Happens on pretty much random tracks and not necessarily when I have selected a particular track.

In my case, it is almost like one beat of the first or second measure is skipped at the beginning of a song.

The fact that you posted this 4 months ago, and I'm the first person to respond makes me nervous. Did we just enter the twilight on this one?

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Hi

My setup consisting of 4 Duets and 3 SB3 driven from Vista (all Ethernet Wired) suffers from this also...not all the time but randomly. SC version is 7.32

[nathan_h]

Yeah, "random" is probably the word I would use, too.

Which makes filing a big report tough.

But it is interesting that we are not alone.

[JJZolx]

Hi, I have noticed that with both softsqueeze and the duet receiver there is often a slight stutter in the start of a track. This particularly happens when I start the first track or click next / previous. It is like the music startds for a few ms and then restarts. I thought it was softsqueeze before I got my duet but now it must either be squeezecenter itself or my QNAP NAS.
Note that using XBMC the tracks play perfectly.

I've always noticed this with the software players that I've used over the years, both Softsqueeze and Squeezeslave, whenever I skip a track while it's playing. It happens very close to 100% of the time. But I've never seen it with a hardware player, although I don't have a Duet or Receiver. If you listen closely you'll probably find that it's a tiny snippet from the currently playing track, not the new one being started.

Seems to be a music buffer issue - like it's either beginning playback at the wrong point in the buffer, or not clearing the buffer correctly before filling it with the new song. I always figured it was a problem at the player, but I suppose it could also be in SqueezeCenter. It does seem odd to me that two completely different software players would exhibit the same problem.

[nathan_h]

That's interesting. I have heard it on the hardware players BUT maybe it's when they are synced with a software player somewhere else in the house. I'll have to pay closer attention.

[callesoroe]

Hi, I have noticed that with both softsqueeze and the duet receiver there is often a slight stutter in the start of a track. This particularly happens when I start the first track or click next / previous. It is like the music startds for a few ms and then restarts. I thought it was softsqueeze before I got my duet but now it must either be squeezecenter itself or my QNAP NAS.
Note that using XBMC the tracks play perfectly.

Anybody got any idea

drongo

There is another thread about the "rebuffering" issue. I think this one is
just the same. I am experinceing just the same. Many says that this problem was introduced with squeezecenter 7.3.1. It has been a little better with SC 7.3.2 but I still have the same problem as you. Is there a bug regarding this, that you can vote for???

[JJZolx]

There is another thread about the "rebuffering" issue. I think this one is
just the same. I am experinceing just the same. Many says that this problem was introduced with squeezecenter 7.3.1. It has been a little better with SC 7.3.2 but I still have the same problem as you. Is there a bug regarding this, that you can vote for???

I doubt that it has much, if anything, to do with rebuffering issues. I've seen this behavior since Slimserver 5.

That it was happening with software players and never addressed isn't very surprising, as they've never been taken seriously. If it's also happening with the Duet then it is surprising that nobody has filed a bug.

[callesoroe]

I doubt that it has much, if anything, to do with rebuffering issues. I've seen this behavior since Slimserver 5.

That it was happening with software players and never addressed isn't very surprising, as they've never been taken seriously. If it's also happening with the Duet then it is surprising that nobody has filed a bug.

Why does the controller then say "refuffering" when it restarts a track??

[nathan_h]

Why does the controller then say "refuffering" when it restarts a track??

The behavior we are talking about in this thread is not re-starting or re-buffering a track.

Rather, we are talking about skipping a beat, jumping ahead in the song by a perceptible amount, during the first few measures of many songs.