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JRiver Media Center 20.0.129 for Debian (Wheezy) ARM
mwillems:
A few thoughts:
1) You're not trying to use playback from memory are you? If so, turn it off, it's not a good idea on the Pi
2) I notice that your Pi's toolbar has several hardware monitoring widgets not enabled on a default NOOBS install. I mention them because another user (with a regular computer, not a pi) recently had intermittent dropouts that were actually caused by system monitoring graph software: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=97571.msg676633#msg676633. Generally speaking, when troubleshooting it's a good idea to disable anything extraneous that you can.
3) Have you tried playing with the buffering settings in options-->audio?
On the memory issue I haven't been able to get MC to eat up more than about 350 MB of RAM. Any particular steps you have to take to make that happen? I have a few pis running 24/7 and have seen no such memory increases. If you can reproduce the 600MB usage, could you post the output of the command "free -h" in a terminal?
In the meanwhile you could just setup a cronjob to restart JRiver every night, but that's suboptimal.
PrinterPrinter:
Hello Again,
I still have this problem - occasional pauses in playback, I've now realized there are also occasional 'pops' - which are disturbing because I'm going direct to power-amp - using JRiver to substantially attenuate the volume but a full volume 'pop' can probably ruin my speakers...
I set the CPU governor to performance mode and closed every other utility or program running on my pi... I also tried playing with the pre-buffering settings in JRiver - but 'no cigar'.
Any ideas are welcome,
Thank you
Mark_NL:
--- Quote from: PrinterPrinter on June 04, 2015, 03:10:31 am ---Any ideas are welcome,
Thank you
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Some other thought's:
Set the output format (just above the Buffer time setting) to 24 bit, the digi + isn't capable of more anyway. (The linux guy’s say more is better and adding zero’s don’t matter, I disagree)
If you use vnc connection a lot you could try it without the spectrum analyzer to keep network traffic down (left click on it) not sure of this has a big impact.
(btw tested the digi+ with the initial release of MC a had no problems at all. Hooked it up to a naim naid of a friend , if there where click's we should have heard them)
PrinterPrinter:
Thanks Guys,
I've tried everything and I still have these pauses and clicks... I think I'm really risking my speakers.
Not sure what to do other than reinstall everything from scratch?
Your ideas are welcome - thanks!
BTW
After about 14 hours of playing non stop, my JRiver is now using 453Mb of memory,
Here is the 'free -h' output bellow:
--- Code: ---pi@raspberrypi ~ $ free -h
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 927M 792M 134M 0B 57M 216M
-/+ buffers/cache: 518M 408M
--- End code ---
mwillems:
Do the clicks or pauses occur during song playback or between songs? If between songs, do they happen only or more often when changing sample rate (i.e. switching from a redbook track to a 24/96 track)?
Are you streaming the files over a network or playing from an external harddrive? IF so, just to test, try putting a file or two on the sd card and see if you get the same problems.
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