[Network] MP3 streaming is randomly freezing

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Browse MP3 library served by v1.10.5 on Mac from PS3.  (I checked 32-bit 
mode and Rosetta as suggested by other users.)
2. Select and play any song.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It should keep playing the song till the end just fine.  However playing back 
music has problems.  When I try to play back *any* mp3, it plays great for a 
few min till it 
abruptly pauses awaiting the next set of bytes.  It appears from monitoring 
both Activity Monitor as well as the bandwidth monitor on my router, that the 
buffer is 
filled very quickly at a very high transfer rate right at the beginning and 
then drops off completely until the music stops (after 2 or 3 min), then it 
picks back up with 
high speed transfer until the PS3 (apparently) runs out of buffer again.
It looks like something needs to be changed so the buffer is refilled sooner, 
but I'm not sure.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Mac (10.6.2, Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro), PS3, Linksys router.

Also, video files, even big 720p MKV ones, play perfectly the whole time, so 
this suggests to me that it's not a network/wifi problem or a performance 
problem with 
my computer or hard drive.

Please let me know if I can help.  This is a pretty awesome product, especially 
when you consider it's free.  Thanks a lot for making it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jpsw...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 3:49

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Got the same troubles but more like every 25 minutes. Let's make it official

Original comment by shagr...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2010 at 7:26

• Changed title: [Network] MP3 streaming is randomly freezing
• Changed state: Accepted

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Also, if it helps, I can say that I also tried Nullriver MediaLink with the 
exact same problem playing mp3 files.  
It's so strange b/c 720p mkv files play a nice smooth stream and the bandwidth 
line graph (in OS X activity 
monitor) is relatively continuous and even whereas the mp3 file playback is a 
big burst in bandwidth at the 
beginning (up to almost 1MB/sec) then down to basically zero for 30-40 seconds 
till the mp3 abruptly stops, 
then a huge burst and the mp3 picks up playing where it left off, and this 
repeats over and over.  It's a bizarre 
problem.  What's even more bizarre to me is that no one else seems to be having 
this problem!

It occurs to me that it could be a router issue even though the big video files 
stream great.  My router is a 
Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato firmware 1.23.  In the next couple days I will 
try and flash a different 
firmware onto it or try subbing in a different router and see if that makes a 
difference.  I'll report back here.

Anyone have any other ideas for what I should try?
Thanks,
Jamie

Original comment by jpsw...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 5:02

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Issue 556 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by shagr...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:39

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I tested another firmware on my router (Linksys WRT54GL) by flashing DD-WRT v24 
mini-generic onto it.  I got 
the exact same result.  
My PS3 is the latest software version, 3.15.  Also my PS3 is NOT customized in 
any way.  I'm pretty stumped on 
what more could be isolated.  Please let me know if there's anything I can do 
to help.

Thanks,
Jamie

Original comment by jpsw...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 1:55

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For a perfect mp3 streaming try the 48 bit setting in the PS3.

Original comment by marco.ca...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 5:40

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Rock n roll, Marco!!  MP3 playback is working great now.  
Thanks!!  

For others who come across this, the setting you need is under Music Settings 
not Sound Settings.

Jamie

Original comment by jpsw...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2010 at 12:31