Network Dropouts

[simoncn]

(29-07-2014 07:12)Mike48 Wrote:  More follow up: after changing flac:wav24 to flac:wav and listening to various resolution files intermixed, the clicking began again. I changed it back to flac24, rebooted the MiND, restarted MinimServer, and the clicks went away. I listened for over an hour with no clicks. This leads me to believe that varying bit depths from track to track may have a negative effect on the MiND. I'd need to repeat this several times to know for sure, and I'm not that curious at this point -- I'd rather just listen to music.

This isn't quite conclusive because you rebooted the MiND at the same time as changing the transcoding setting to wav24. It would be interesting to know whether the problem occurs if you play everything at wav24 for an extended period without rebooting the MiND.

If the problem is related to 16-bit WAV streams, it might be caused by the internal processing that the MiND is doing to convert a 16-bit network stream to 24 bits for passing on to the DAC. Alternatively, it might be caused by this conversion within the DAC (if the DAC is receiving a 16-bit stream from the MiND).