Hi All,
I'm curious if anyone can tell me why my home system which I feel consists of "very" capable and robust hardware fails so miserably at playing my home music library. My library consists of 40,000 WMA Lossless tracks and 3000 or so albums. It is rare for me to be able to play more than 5 or 6 songs without a stutter, halt, blip, erratic loss of sync, or complete stop. Sometimes it will get on a roll and play well but I am unable to change tracks, skip a track, or repeat a track without causing me great consternation and playback failure. I really only use Pandora, which works wonderful, the internet radio, which works great, a few podcasts, which work great, and my music collection. This problem is not new.
I always use the latest version of 7.9 and my hardware consists of the following. This happens whether I have everything turned on or I am running just a few of the radios. (Most of the time I just run 7, 8, or 9)
A Dedicated Dell Inspiron 3000 Series Model 3847 running Windows 10 Pro (and absolutely nothing else), a 4th Gen 4th Intel i7-4790 Processor, 16 GB of ram, and 2 4 Terabytes hard drives (1 is a backup)
A Netgear R7000 with the 2.4 GHz band dedicated to the home music system.
14 Squeezebox Radios
(7) standalones (2 of them setup as a stereo pair)
(4) of them connected to 4 Sunfire DS-8 Self Powered Subwoofers
(3) of them connected to 3 pairs of JBL LSR305 Powered Studio Monitors sitting on Maple DR Pro Studio Monitor Stands
In the Living Room - A 10.5 Inch Samsung Nexus Galaxy TAB-S running "Squeeze Ctrl"
In the Bedroom - A Nexus 7 2013 on a dock running "Squeeze Ctrl"
My question is:
Is my WMA lossless collection the root of all my problems? The playability of my music collection has rendered an otherwise brilliant system into an exercise in frustration. Is it possible to introduce native support for WMA Lossless into the firmware of the Squeezebox Radio so it doesn't have to convert on the fly? Or is that even my problem? Any or all comments are welcome and Michael, I would sure appreciate it if you would chime in. I am questioning a bit, my decision to invest so heavily in my system right now and wondering if Sonos might have been better despite its failings.
Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions. (I have not given up yet.)
Scott
I'm curious if anyone can tell me why my home system which I feel consists of "very" capable and robust hardware fails so miserably at playing my home music library. My library consists of 40,000 WMA Lossless tracks and 3000 or so albums. It is rare for me to be able to play more than 5 or 6 songs without a stutter, halt, blip, erratic loss of sync, or complete stop. Sometimes it will get on a roll and play well but I am unable to change tracks, skip a track, or repeat a track without causing me great consternation and playback failure. I really only use Pandora, which works wonderful, the internet radio, which works great, a few podcasts, which work great, and my music collection. This problem is not new.
I always use the latest version of 7.9 and my hardware consists of the following. This happens whether I have everything turned on or I am running just a few of the radios. (Most of the time I just run 7, 8, or 9)
A Dedicated Dell Inspiron 3000 Series Model 3847 running Windows 10 Pro (and absolutely nothing else), a 4th Gen 4th Intel i7-4790 Processor, 16 GB of ram, and 2 4 Terabytes hard drives (1 is a backup)
A Netgear R7000 with the 2.4 GHz band dedicated to the home music system.
14 Squeezebox Radios
(7) standalones (2 of them setup as a stereo pair)
(4) of them connected to 4 Sunfire DS-8 Self Powered Subwoofers
(3) of them connected to 3 pairs of JBL LSR305 Powered Studio Monitors sitting on Maple DR Pro Studio Monitor Stands
In the Living Room - A 10.5 Inch Samsung Nexus Galaxy TAB-S running "Squeeze Ctrl"
In the Bedroom - A Nexus 7 2013 on a dock running "Squeeze Ctrl"
My question is:
Is my WMA lossless collection the root of all my problems? The playability of my music collection has rendered an otherwise brilliant system into an exercise in frustration. Is it possible to introduce native support for WMA Lossless into the firmware of the Squeezebox Radio so it doesn't have to convert on the fly? Or is that even my problem? Any or all comments are welcome and Michael, I would sure appreciate it if you would chime in. I am questioning a bit, my decision to invest so heavily in my system right now and wondering if Sonos might have been better despite its failings.
Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions. (I have not given up yet.)
Scott