Advantages of MinimStreamer

[simoncn]

(23-04-2014 12:27)gnomus Wrote:  Yes - there is a delay (no sound) for around 10 seconds, then it jumps to the next track. You think that this might be related to the Sonos then?

I think the Sonos quite reasonably assumes that if the server hasn't responded within 10 seconds, something has gone seriously wrong and it needs to recover from this problem.

Seeking a transcoded stream will take longer than seeking a nontranscoded stream. Seeking to near the end of a track will take longer than seeking to near the start of a track. Seeking without a seek table will take longer than seeking with a seek table. Seeking an uncompressed FLAC file might take longer than seeking a compressed FLAC file (I would need to verify this by experiment). The challenge is to get MinimStreamer to respond within 10 seconds if all these factors are unfavourable.