Jim Lesurf wrote:

From what I've seen/measured, the first and last areas were the clear
problems. I'd be surprised if any home users had any synchronisation.
So rely on buffering and adequate control of that and
latency/interrupt effects. How well that works, I wonder. Problem is
that a home system has a number of 'plates to spin' and experience
makes me lack confidence in what the makers of domestic computer
hardware and software do - or even if they have a clue about audio.


On reflection...most of the points you make are relevant to streaming (I'm
no expert so correct me if I'm talking rubbish here) In the case of audio
files of fixed size, as in this case, surely the best solution would be to
transfer the whole file across to the players RAM and play it from there.
Transfer to a local copy would take negligible time and clock
synchronisation would not be an issue. Comments ?

P.S. I haven't yet gotten around to looking at network activity while
playing audio so I don't know if they actually do this.

Cheers
TonyL