by sunspot » Mon Mar 06, 2017 6:30 pm
I'm hitting kind of an odd problem. I've got MediaMonkey running on a little touchscreen notebook PC, which seems to be more than powerful enough to play files located on its internal 128GB SSD. However, I moved my library to my WD NAS, which is mapped to a drive letter on the notebook like a standard PC directory (I'm not using DLNA). The notebook sees the directory just fine and can pull files over at about 6MB/s over wifi.
However, when I try to play files from off the NAS, particularly FLACs, sometimes MediaMonkey starts stuttering and skipping. I'm assuming this is some kind of network latency maybe? Doesn't MediaMonkey pull down the whole FLAC file though when it starts to play one? Or is it pulling the file over in chunks as-needed? Seems very strange - this behavior does not happen with local files, at least that I've been able to recreate. Those play without the skipping.
Seems like if MM isn't pulling over the entire file and caching it, it should. Is there a setting for this?
I'm hitting kind of an odd problem. I've got MediaMonkey running on a little touchscreen notebook PC, which seems to be more than powerful enough to play files located on its internal 128GB SSD. However, I moved my library to my WD NAS, which is mapped to a drive letter on the notebook like a standard PC directory (I'm not using DLNA). The notebook sees the directory just fine and can pull files over at about 6MB/s over wifi.
However, when I try to play files from off the NAS, particularly FLACs, sometimes MediaMonkey starts stuttering and skipping. I'm assuming this is some kind of network latency maybe? Doesn't MediaMonkey pull down the whole FLAC file though when it starts to play one? Or is it pulling the file over in chunks as-needed? Seems very strange - this behavior does not happen with local files, at least that I've been able to recreate. Those play without the skipping.
Seems like if MM isn't pulling over the entire file and caching it, it should. Is there a setting for this?