I'm hoping someone can make a suggestion or two about a Squeezeplay problem that's just appeared for me, as I've been working on it with no improvement at all.
Here's my Squeezeplayer setup, which has worked beautifully for a few years now:
Suddenly, the sound is frequently dropping out, often with a little 'rebuffering' message at the top of the Joggler screen (the radio screen is too small for me to make out what it says, if anything)
None of this has made any difference. I've also replaced my network switch (the only hardware component that's been introduced into the mix in the last 6 months) - no difference. Have rebooted my router of course. My internal network is very good - no problems with Plex, or moving files around, etc.
Internet radio is always fine - no interruptions or dropouts. The problem is just my own local MP3s. Occasionally, the random mix will play great for ages, and I think the problem's gone... until the buffering comes back. I'm out of ideas.
Can anyone suggest where else I should be looking? It's weird how the problem has not improved at all when changing the server. But it's also weird that the problem has appeared on all my players at the same time - if the network card was failing in one, I'd understand - but all at the same time..?
Thanks in advance for any help in unlocking my brain on this...
Here's my Squeezeplayer setup, which has worked beautifully for a few years now:
- LMS running on a raspberry pi, using a piece of software called max2play. Music on a 2.5" USB drive attached to the pi. The server has a static IP address.
- Repurposed O2 Jogglers flashed with the awesome SqueezeplayOS software (that turns them into a touchscreen Squeezeplay client). These are dotted around the house, connected to various stereos or speakers. All with static IP addresses. Some of the Jogglers are wifi, some are on ethernet cables. I also have a shop-bought Squeezebox Radio in the kitchen (that has a built-in speaker)
- Apart from the very occasional hang & reboot, this has been rock solid for years.
- The vast majority of my listening is 'Random song mix' from my local mp3 library, plus a bit of internet radio.
Suddenly, the sound is frequently dropping out, often with a little 'rebuffering' message at the top of the Joggler screen (the radio screen is too small for me to make out what it says, if anything)
- My immediate reaction was to blame the raspberry pi server, so I've tinkered with that, no improvement.
- I got rid of max2play as my pi software, and installed piCorePlayer on a new SD card as a LMS server instead. Same problem.
- I moved the LMS server over to a 'real' computer: the HP Microserver that I use for my Plex library. This thing is running Xpenology (software that fools the HP into thinking it's a Synology box. LMS runs in Docker). In this setup the music files are on the HP's internal hard drives - no improvement.
- Whatever server I've tried, it's been connected to my network by a cable - a different cable each time.
- I wiped and reflashed the software on one of the Jogglers - no improvement.
None of this has made any difference. I've also replaced my network switch (the only hardware component that's been introduced into the mix in the last 6 months) - no difference. Have rebooted my router of course. My internal network is very good - no problems with Plex, or moving files around, etc.
Internet radio is always fine - no interruptions or dropouts. The problem is just my own local MP3s. Occasionally, the random mix will play great for ages, and I think the problem's gone... until the buffering comes back. I'm out of ideas.
Can anyone suggest where else I should be looking? It's weird how the problem has not improved at all when changing the server. But it's also weird that the problem has appeared on all my players at the same time - if the network card was failing in one, I'd understand - but all at the same time..?
Thanks in advance for any help in unlocking my brain on this...