MP3 playback performance over WiFi

[Dave Potter]

Whenever I try to play MP3s on my iPAQ 1935 over my WiFi connection (the MP3s reside on my desktop), I get buffering pauses every 15-30 seconds. The song will not play back from beginning to end without these pauses, which last about 1-2 seconds.

Anyone else experience this? If so, how did you overcome it?

[Jason Dunn]

What player are you using? Microsoft says the Windows Media Player doesn't "support" MP3 streaming... :roll:

[Dave Potter]

I've tried WMP and PocketMusic. WMP actually worked better - less 'buffering' pauses - than PocketMusic. I expected the opposite.

[Mark_Venture]

see below for my ipaq and wi-fi... Access point is a Linksys WRT54G (Wireless G router configured as Access Point only) stacked to a Linksys BEFSR41 (wired soho router)...

My MP3 files are encoded as 128K, 160K and 192K and are sitting on a share on a PC with Asus P4PE/Lan/1394/Sata Motherboard(onboard 10/100 ethernet card) with Celeron 2.2Ghz and 512Meg PC2700 memory that is wired to the BEFSR41...

I use BizzDev Net Use for Pocket PC 2002 to map to the network share from the iPAQ and PocketMind Software Pocket Music to play back the MP3 files.

I have no buffering problems. I just tap on the files, they play. I have some play lists on the PC... tap it, they all play, one after the other without pauses, without buffering.

[Vulcan]

Sounds more like a network performace issue than an MP3 player problem....What speed are you connecting at? Have you mapped the drive where the MP3s are stored? Once I mapped the network share I have been able to play the MP3's with no lag.

[Dave Potter]

Connected at 11Mbs. The folder where the MP3s reside is indeed mapped.

Interestingly enough, if I play two files, one music and one speech (both sampled at 192 kbps), the speech file does not have the buffering pauses - whereas the music file does!

[Vulcan]

You have covered the basics.....Perhaps trying another player would help.

[JoeMoon]

You have covered the basics.....Perhaps trying another player would help.

I had some similar issues...

I ended up trying a few different players, and found that WithMP3 streamed the best and virtually eliminated the lag time issues. My only gripe with the "withMP3" player is that the support SUCKS! Otherwise, the player works.

Joseph...