m3u files for PS Audio Bridge II

[simoncn]

(24-01-2016 08:39)peter.rayner Wrote:  Ok, thanks very much for the guidance on extracting logging information. I set .logLevel=debug, restarted and tried the playlist again.
Just to be sure I'm not misleading you, here's the current version of the m3u file.

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:99999,[*classicfm] ABC ClassicFM
http://live-radio01.mediahubaustralia.com/2FMW/aac/

One intriguing set of messages look like this:
4302:18:50:15.390 Thread-250: ShoutcastFilter: skipping 2289 bytes of metadata at stream offset 33729
4340:18:50:17.379 Thread-250: ShoutcastFilter: skipping 2065 bytes of metadata at stream offset 52402
4353:18:50:19.974 Thread-250: ShoutcastFilter: skipping 4033 bytes of metadata at stream offset 70851
4374:18:50:24.550 Thread-250: ShoutcastFilter: skipping 2321 bytes of metadata at stream offset 107653

and there are a lot of these
Are they normal?
thanks again for continuing to work through this.

These messages are normal. A Shoutcast radio stream contains metadata describing what is currently playing. This information needs to be removed by MinimSreamer before passing the audio data to the renderer for playing. This takes a very small amount of CPU processing and I would not expect this processing to overload the CPU in your DS211.

Do you have any other UPnP renderers that you could use to play the stream as a test? This would confirm whether the problem is caused by some issue with the PSAudio Bridge II and DAC or whether it is related to the combination of MinimStreamer and the DS211.

Are you able to check the CPU consumption on the DS211 while the stream is playing? I am not sure whether you can read the graphical display of CPU consumption in the Resource Managger applet in Synology DSM. If not, another option is to login to the DS211 using SSH and run the 'top' command