I'm sorry I dont think anyone can answer that for you. You'll have to listen to them decide for yourself which one you prefer.
If everything played fine it would give an indication as to where we can look as the problem would have to be in something we excluded by moving the files to local storage. Network bandwidth/throughput is only 1 aspect of network performance. As the problem only occurs after 2 to 4 songs, I'm thinking maybe something on the NAS ... we'll see when we get there.
Which buffer setting are you actually referring to? There's one under Tools/Options/Audio called prebuffering. There should be another one under 'Device Settings', default is 100ms, you could try increasing that one as well.
No Problem. I was just wondering Spec wise if there is an advantage of 1 over the other?
As far as the buffer(s). I have the one under "ASIO" setting set to 4 seconds now. The "Prebuffering" one is currently set to "6 Seconds (Recommended)".
I think I have figured out what the issue is. Though the traffic to the computer is not getting higher than 2MB/s I was looking at the resource monitor on the NAS itself and it is uploading up to 15 - 20MB/s at times which I think are corresponding with the buffering on the computer running MC when I am transferring files from the NAS to another location.
Maybe the NAS itself is hitting it's transfer ceiling. So I am now trying to figure out how to either get the NAS to prioritize the network traffic? or to reduce the speed capabilities to the other computers.
There is a "Speed Limit" option on the NAS but it seems to be tied to only specific applications and does not seem to affect the actual file transfer speed for stuff I am transferring to / from it.
I am sure there is a way to prioritize traffic to the computer that I am using to play music on. Probably via QOS on either my network switch or router? But I am not sure how to set these settings.
I have a fairly high end switch I think: Cisco GS748T. If someone knows about QOS settings and can tell me how to prioritize the network traffic to the one computer I think it will help?
Carl.