Playing hi def music via ethernet using hdx sds

Posted by: Paul N on 24 November 2015

I previously had approx 1.8 tb of music stored on a nas drive, recently I have added over 2tb. since adding these additional files I have interrupted music when playing hi def files 192/24 bit files. Prior to this the hi def files played OK. Following advise I changed my network switch to a 1 gig switch but this did not work any suggestions.

Posted on: 24 November 2015 by ChrisSU

How much spare storage space do you have on your NAS?

Posted on: 24 November 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Yes sounds like an issue of some sort on your NAS. I wouldn't worry about network, think that must have been mis placed or poor advice. 192/24 PCM takes approx 10Mbps throughput which is almost trivial on a 100 Mbps switch and wired network .. a GigE switch would simply give you headroom if you had many concurrent 192/24 PCM streams occurring across many multiple playback systems simultaneously in your house.

id be inclined to back up your NAS, and do a complete rebuild and disc/RAID reformat from scratch.. What is your NAS? If you mount a regular disc say on a PC or Mac with your media server do your issues go?

Simon

Posted on: 24 November 2015 by garyi

I should check what the upnp server is up to, if its was a bulk dump of music it may have spaffed and is constantly scanning. When its doing that its not able to concentrate on other things.

Also make sure you don't have a number of UPNP server running on the same nas.

Basically check the logs and see what the CPU on the NAS is up to, if its at a hundy, I would reset the UPNP server and let it do a new scan.