Minim stream being throttled on QNAP NAS ?

[windbag]

Thanks again simbun, yes I realised you were not Simoncn, just wanted to thank for folks taking time with my query

(25-11-2024 18:53)simbun Wrote:  the last time I tried, if I played to one of the slaves it played from just that speaker, but things may have changed.

I just re-tried it, and you're right - except it splits that selected Sonos from the group. In this instance the group was already streaming radio from outside, and the remaining 3 in the group kept doing so.
It seemed to then stream OK, but broke down at track 4. A common observation is that, once it breaks down, it can hardly play anything. Clear playlist, try different album (yes, this has happened with at least 20 diff albums since it started), it just coughs and splutters and skips tracks.
I did grab some more resource screens during the process. You can see the Network usage spikes piling up after the first failure.
After clearing the playlist, then browsing on the phone to use a different album of music, I got a new-to-me error:
Current state of service prevents this action. Connection error or no response.
Bit disconcerting as the phone and target Sonos are next to each other (both about 10 feet from WiFi repeater)
By the time I'd written that down, browsing then worked again, but it was now in a won't play-anything state again - that was when all the Network Usage spikes came forth.

(25-11-2024 21:28)windbag Wrote:  Does the MP3,128 kbps,stereo,44100 Hz, indicate it IS being re-coded ?

(25-11-2024 22:22)simbun Wrote:  It only indicates transcoding if the source file isn't MP3@128. Try doing the same on a track you know is of better quality.

Almost exclusively, my files are Mp3 VBR, so not exclusively 128 kbps. So I wondered if transcoding were making them to a steady 128. I could make a special 128 or 256 kbps files for testing, I guess.

(25-11-2024 22:22)simbun Wrote:  If you click on the track's URL in BubbleUPnP does it download successfully, and, with the local renderer selected, does it play back successfully in BubbleUPnP?

Just tried that. Seemed to stick a couple of times then played fine. But it can do that anyway, so could be a fluke? So, just tried another track from a different album and that just payed fine.

(25-11-2024 22:22)simbun Wrote:  I guess you could put the log in [debug]mode

If still a good idea, would that be .loglevel=debug ? (zip need noted)