Hello,
Lately I started collecting 24/192 HiRes music and have problems playing it. the configuration is as follows:
music is stored on a RAID5 disk on computer A (core i7 win7 x64 ultimate) in a shared folder in FLAC format. HiRes is typically ~5500 kbps.
player, computer B, is core i3, win7 x64 as well, connected via a 1GB LAN to computer A. the library is local and refers to the remote files.
copy entire HiRes (nearly 1GB) album from A to B is done in typical rate of ~45 MBytes/sec.
playing the album on computer B from local SSD disk - no problems.
playing the album on computer A, from RAID - no problem.
playing the album on B from A - many "Buffering" interrupts up to the point it becomes not usable.
CPU and network utilization on both computers is very (very) low.
I tried correlating the hiccups with antivirus activity, disk activity, network activity - nothing I could spot.
changing the prebuffering from the recommended 6 sec to 20 makes the hiccups sparser but longer.
out of clues... ?