Increase Audio Buffer Length

[alexkrishnan]

This app is awesome, thanks so much for everything you've done!

I use this app in a less-than-stellar Wi-Fi environment (a moving vehicle) so the audio frequently stutters when using this app. Is there any way to increase the audio buffer length to help reduce stuttering/missing audio?

[suiluj]

Same problem here! Does someone have a solution for this stuttering? Regards Julius

[westerlund]

This is a general issue with airplay. I had the Airport Express with the same issues. I hardly think the buffer can be increased due to limitations in the AirPlay protocol.

[czyz]

The buffer can be increased by large amounts in another open-source airplay client, shairport, and it does make a difference for crappy connections.

So I'd assume it should be possible to adjust the buffer in Airflow, if you can find it. Airplay apparently supports arbitrarily large buffers. I've probably got a 5 second buffer in my old shairport setup.