Choppy Playback

[joshwells85]

When I try to listen to a song it will play for a few seconds, then it starts skipping. I have to pause the song, let it buffer, then start it again.

I have a super fast connection(20Mbps) to the internet from my home network, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Is there some sort of setting that I am missing? A transcoding option maybe?

I really love subsonic, but this skipping/buffering annoyance is preventing me from using the software.

[jeremyh]

My first guess would be that there is something on the server causing the stream to come out very slowly. Is your server pegged when playing music? Are there a lot of users on the server?

Your connection to the internet shouldn't make any difference unless your subsonic server is not local to you.

[deftdrummer]

This same thing happens to me too, be it on 3G or wifi. It has always happened on my various phones first Droid 1 and now DX.

I was also thinking that it could be encoding related, but I haven't messed too much with it. I know Subsonic uses some VLC codecs could it be linked to that?

I too have a strong connection at home on wireless-N with my iMac and a 20MB connection. Shouldn't be seeing these problems..

[delcypher]

@joshwells - Have you installed the transcoders as well? If they are not installed Subsonic will just stream the audio without doing any transcoding. Which may result in very large streams which could cause stuttering. Also I highly doubt you get 20Mb/s consistently.

You should see if you have a similar problem using an external player like VLC instead of the web player.

@deftdrummer - Subsonic does not use "some vlc codecs". Subsonic uses external tools to do transcoding which are not supplied with it! You could use vlc in nongraphical mode to do transcoding but ffmpeg is far more suitable. Besides VLC & both use libavcodec. You must install the transcoder tools yourself. At the bare minimum ffmpeg & lame should be used.

Please see the Subsonic wiki page on transcoders. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/subsonic/index.php?title=Transcoders

Hope this helps.