[SlimDevices: SqueezeNetwork] mp3tunes

[Andy Grundman]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Andy Grundman wrote:

>
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:47 AM, James_B wrote:
>
>>
>> I have frequent errors listening to Mp3tunes. I get a message saying
>> "rebuffering" and the sound drops out - sometimes for a split second,
>> sometimes ten or more seconds, and sometimes it totally freezes. I
>> have
>> also had to switch off my squeezebox on occasion (its an SD gen 3).
>>
>> Any ideas what is causing this? Could it possibly be because of my
>> location (I dont know where MP3tunes servers are based but I am
>> guessing US). Alot of my files are 320k and I stream with "Smart
>> Stream" - i have some lower and I think the larger they are the more
>> frequent the drops outs are.
>>
>> Any ideas greatly appreciated. Love the concept of mp3tunes but the
>> drop outs are making it a pain.
>
> Where are you located?  It's most likely a network issue.  The 'smart
> stream' preference is only for MP3tunes' flash player on their
> website; for mp3 files on the SB you always get the original file at
> whatever bitrate you uploaded.

This got me thinking, I'll add a preference soon so you can stream at  
a lower bitrate.