Minim wishlist

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(23-06-2013 23:07)Alekz Wrote:  I know that some companies are using various buffers and that might affect the sound quality. I haven't experimented with it myself, but I've read some articles/posts on the Internet.

About the skips: if the system or disks are busy the buffer might run "out of bits". This frequently happens with hi-rez material played on PSAudio PWD.

MinimServer uses advanced buffering techniques to ensure that these problems don't occur. I'd be interested to hear from any MinimServer users who are experiencing audio dropouts when doing transcoding, so that I can investigate the cause of the problem.

(23-06-2013 23:07)Alekz Wrote:  This is why I suggested concatenation in advance. There is a problem with Rygel compiled with VLC libraries - VLC does not support gapless. So all VLC devices might benefit from this solution.

The UPnP renderer works as follows:

1) request track 1 and play it
2) at the end of track 1, request track 2 and play it
3) at the end of track 2, request track 3 and play it
etc.

When the server receives request 1), it doesn't know that 2) and 3) will happen at some future time, so it can't do concatenation in advance.

(23-06-2013 23:07)Alekz Wrote:  WavPack - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WavPack

I don't think support for this is likely, either.

Quote:Another idea is a Java-based UPnP controller to run on any device. BTW, probably it already exists, does anybody know?

I'm not aware of any.