Improving sound quality with remote ESD server
- by cuu508
Hi, I'm investigating low-budget ways to get audio from my PC (Ubuntu) to HiFi without wires.
I'm currently testing a setup where Asus WL-500gP wireless router runs ESD daemon and has attached USB soundcard which is then plugged into HiFi.
I'm testing playback on PC with mpg123-esd and Spotify under Wine. The sound is there, latency is unexpectedly low, but I also hear occassional clicks and some distortion from time to time. I suppose that's because of the low latency and wireless streaming of uncompressed audio--any packet drops, CPU temporarily being busy etc. will cause clicks in sound output.
Is there a way around this problem, increasing latency / buffer size somehow perhaps?
Streaming using shoutcast protocol seems to be a way out but I have feeling that would be a complex and brittle setup.