Playback stability of r901

[denis]

I initially set FRAMES_PER_SLICE to 8192, and that made playback almost perfect. I still got two AudioSchedulerErrors :

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2007-08-09 23:12:10.601 Play[12018] -audioSchedulerStartedRenderingRegion: 01. Blue Planet Corporation - Apex.flac (8192, 90112)
2007-08-09 23:15:48.129 Play[12018] AudioScheduler error: kScheduledAudioSliceFlag_BeganToRenderLate (starting sample 9592832)
2007-08-09 23:15:48.304 Play[12018] AudioScheduler error: kScheduledAudioSliceFlag_BeganToRenderLate (starting sample 9601024)

As you can see they occured in the middle of the track (the last paste was only after playing around one minute of the track), and the dropout was difficult to hear.
I now increased the NUMBER_OF_SLICES_IN_BUFFER to 20, and so far it seems playback is perfect for me

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2007-08-09 23:21:57.286 Play[13175] -audioSchedulerStartedRenderingRegion: 01. Blue Planet Corporation - Apex.flac (8192, 172032)
2007-08-09 23:29:24.222 Play[13175] -audioSchedulerFinishedSchedulingRegion: 01. Blue Planet Corporation - Apex.flac (19718144, 19869696)
2007-08-09 23:29:27.659 Play[13175] -audioSchedulerFinishedRenderingRegion: 01. Blue Planet Corporation - Apex.flac (19869696, 19869696)

I honestly think it would be great to expose some settings for the buffer size in the preferences part of Play, perhaps under an advanced pane. It is definitely a power user setting, but a great one for people who have weird/troublesome network setups and/or other factors that cause problems.

[sbooth]

I honestly think it would be great to expose some settings for the buffer size in the preferences part of Play, perhaps under an advanced pane. It is definitely a power user setting, but a great one for people who have weird/troublesome network setups and/or other factors that cause problems.

I've added an Advanced preference pane to r932 that allows the buffer sizes to be customized. Hopefully this will help some people out there!