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Bandwidth problems FLAC only

garfieldairlines

Hello everyone.   I have two IKEA speakers, connected on a almost dedicated wifi network (only a phone is also connected to it), with excellent connectivity to the router and no conflicting wifi networks.  Listening to web radios and MP3 320kbs stored on my NAS works like a charm, but when I pick any FLAC music I get buffering errors, 1001 errors, or one second of music and numerous skipping and so on.  The NAS is directly connected with a CAT 5E ethernet cable to the wireless AP, that shouldn't be a problem. Besides, listening to the music with a computer on the same wifi next to the speakers works flawlessly.  What can I do to remedy to this problem? I am getting hopeless and it's next to impossible to use

 

 

 

 

 

Best answer by garfieldairlines

Hello,

I haven’t forgotten about this post, and I came down with an answer.

I went the synology route with airsonicadvanced, and via this software I can stream my music without the need of transcoding it. I had some sweaty moments integrating it to Sonos but it works a thousand times better than the built in library of sonos.

For the ones stumbling upon this ticket in the future : avoid the built in library of sonos, it’s extremely poorly handling flac data, and there’s no way to adapt the buffer to it, and the wireless power is absolutely irrelevant to this issue.

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Airgetlam
  • Airgetlam
  • 42990 replies
  • July 22, 2020

I’d read through the wifi interference FAQ. There’s likely something in there that would help. If not, I would recommend that you submit a system diagnostic within 10 minutes of experiencing this problem, and call Sonos Support to discuss it.

When you talk to the phone folks, there are more options available. They are available Monday through Friday during business hours.

There may be information included in the diagnostic that will help Sonos pinpoint the issue and help you find a solution.  

Bruce
garfieldairlines

Hello,

I haven’t forgotten about this post, and I came down with an answer.

I went the synology route with airsonicadvanced, and via this software I can stream my music without the need of transcoding it. I had some sweaty moments integrating it to Sonos but it works a thousand times better than the built in library of sonos.

For the ones stumbling upon this ticket in the future : avoid the built in library of sonos, it’s extremely poorly handling flac data, and there’s no way to adapt the buffer to it, and the wireless power is absolutely irrelevant to this issue.

https://garfieldairlines.net
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  • dbuttrick
  • Contributor II
  • 5 replies
  • January 5, 2021

airsonic-advanced is not perfect, but its 1000 times better than almost any other solution I’ve seen for local library.

I have a small music library - 6500 songs, and I can’t use SMB to play every song.

I am looking for airsonic to do a few things:

  1. provide a cloud queue service.
  2. activate the ratings interface.
  3. provide a better installation experience so that non-technical users can get it running.

 

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  • Keithmac
  • Virtuoso
  • 777 replies
  • January 5, 2021

I have a WD MyCloud 3tb and never had a problem with Sonos streaming FLAC files (all my CD's are FLAC format).

 

J
  • John B
  • 19684 replies
  • January 5, 2021
Keithmac wrote:

I have a WD MyCloud 3tb and never had a problem with Sonos streaming FLAC files (all my CD's are FLAC format).

 

Ditto, except using a Synology Diskstation NAS.   This is across a seven-zone system.  Of course, I am using SonosNet……..

 

Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • 11223 replies
  • January 5, 2021

I stream CD quality FLAC to multiple Sonos over Ethernet and SonosNet using a Raspberry Pi 3B with no issues. CPU load is minimal even with multiple streams of different music.

I’m betting on it being a wireless interference issue. The Diagnostic is the best route, looking at your Network Matrix can also be informative, dig here for explanations on what all the matrix stuff means.

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  • Antifon
  • Prodigy III
  • 389 replies
  • January 6, 2021
dbuttrick wrote:

I have a small music library - 6500 songs, and I can’t use SMB to play every song

 

How does this limitation manifest itself? I’m worried now because I’m just setting up my system, based on SMB (Samba), and I expect to have more than 6500 tracks in the library.

How can that be, when SMB is simply a generic file sharing interface? Does it have a maximum number of files or directories that it can index or serve up?

Airgetlam
  • Airgetlam
  • 42990 replies
  • January 6, 2021

SMB is merely the method of the speakers reading the files on the NAS, and would have zero implications as to how many files can be ‘read’. There are other limitations that can rear their head, but SMB would not be part of that.

The more prevalent issue seems to be the amount of storage / memory on the speakers to deal with larger playlists. And you’d likely need to be closer to 10k songs in a playlist, although that number is somewhat fungible, as it includes title and other ‘tags’ of the songs. 

Bruce
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Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • 11223 replies
  • January 6, 2021

You can always load up your library, submit a diagnostic, put the number here and ask Sonos to tell you how close you are to each of the storage limit criteria.

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