jasprof.blogg.se - Jriver server

You have to do some crazy things to get data corrupted. Great! A network is thus pretty robust in terms of data technology. If something is broken, the receiver knows and requests it again. The data package also contains extra information to indicate where the package comes from, where it is supposed to go, what is included in the package and in case of TCP traffic: a CRC check to make sure the data is correct. One data package is – provided nothing has been changed in the network – about 1500 bytes. This file is chopped up by the server to make it possible to send this data over a network. Now, you will understand that the file you are playing consists of bits and bytes: 1’s and 0’s. But it can also be a software package on a laptop, PC, etc. The player can be controlled by an app on a phone or tablet.This data is transmitted over a network – wired, wireless or both – from the media server to the music player.This can be a music streamer, but also a phone, PC, etc.

The music data (the song you want to play) is requested by a player.

That can be installed on a NAS, but also a PC, or it can even be a streaming service (in fact also a kind of media server). Let’s first explain how streaming audio over a network basically works. After all: some software can pre-process and that can of course make a difference.

Although we don’t rule out the possibility of that too. Now we certainly hear differences in software, but that is mostly firmware on a player itself. You sometimes read some heavy statements on social media. “ROON sounds like crap!” “JRiver sounds way better than Audirvana”. We play the same file through various packages and record it through a digital loopback in Adobe Audition. Because you would think it does! But how? We start our search with a test that keeps it simple for now. Does a software package (mostly server software) influence the sound? We think it is an interesting question.