Moved post from under the top-level "available here". Sorry - that was the wrong place to post....
I've been running MC13 for a month or two, and updated to 13.0.115 today.
The streaming audio performance has been vastly degraded relative to MC12, and if anything has been getting worse with subsequent builds of MC13. For example, if I open WWOZ in MC12 it says "buffering" for about 4 seconds and then starts playing. Once it starts, it never skips. In MC13, with buffering set to maximum (5 seconds), it says "opening" for about 25 seconds, "buffering" for a couple of seconds, and then starts to play. Once playing, it drops two or three seconds of audio every minute or two. I'm running both on the same computer (XP SP3, 2.8ghz, 1.5gb RAM) and using the same URL for both:
http://wwoz-sc.streamguys.com:80/ I disabled a couple of plugins, but that did not help any. Same issue with all plugins active.
Any recommendations? Thanks!
Jeff
MC12 System Info:
Media Center 12.0.533 Registered -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 12\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2792 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1571 MB, Free - 801 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.5512 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4163B Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive E: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Drive E: LITE-ON LTR-48327S Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: No / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No /
Portable Device Info
Removed devices:
Interface Plugins:
last.fm (Active)
Library Server (Active)
TiVo Server (Active)
UPnP Server (Active)
Inside Out Plugin (Active)
MC13 System Info:
Media Center 13.0.115 Registered -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 13\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2791 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1571 MB, Free - 785 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.5512 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive E: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Drive E: LITE-ON LTR-48327S Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: No / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No /
Portable Device Info
Removed devices:
Interface Plugins:
last.fm
Library Server (Active)
TiVo Server
UPnP Server (Active)
Inside Out Plugin