First World Problem-Sirius XM

CRApex · November 30, 2023

As the title suggests, this is clearly a first world problem I'm asking about.

Here's the scenario..I'm listening to a game on the factory Sirius/XM sports channel, It doesn't matter what game but we'll use the NFL as the example. It's 3rd and 12 yards to go, your team needs to score a touchdown to go up by 3 points with a minute to play. You've listened to the whole game and it comes down to this exciting play. Now here is the issue, before the ball is even snapped, the score that shows on my screen updates to show the play was successful! This happens with baseball games too. Its like the score updates are broadcast ahead of the actual play by play. The easy way to solve this is to not look at the screen or have the Nav on but wondering if this is just my truck or has anyone else noticed this? Again, not losing sleep over this, just seems strange they couldn't sync this up.

UWSkier · November 30, 2023

2 hours ago, CRApex said:

As the title suggests, this is clearly a first world problem I'm asking about.

Here's the scenario..I'm listening to a game on the factory Sirius/XM sports channel, It doesn't matter what game but we'll use the NFL as the example. It's 3rd and 12 yards to go, your team needs to score a touchdown to go up by 3 points with a minute to play. You've listened to the whole game and it comes down to this exciting play. Now here is the issue, before the ball is even snapped, the score that shows on my screen updates to show the play was successful! This happens with baseball games too. Its like the score updates are broadcast ahead of the actual play by play. The easy way to solve this is to not look at the screen or have the Nav on but wondering if this is just my truck or has anyone else noticed this? Again, not losing sleep over this, just seems strange they couldn't sync this up.

Same here. The audio broadcast is ridiculously delayed on SXM. I pop open Android Auto when listening to games for this.

ember1205 · November 30, 2023

My understanding is that the audio (all channels, not just the games) will be buffered. This is for overall listening quality to prevent choppiness and drop-outs. The data will be sent in bursts and then "smoothed out" by the radio as you listen.

For music, this makes perfect sense. For anything that's audio only, it makes sense. But when you incorporate audio with data like a score update, they just aren't aligning the score updates with the audio stream. So, whenever that score update hits the radio, the radio updates what it's showing.

The end result is that the audio of the play probably hit your radio before the score update, the update was shown "right away" while the audio had to work through the buffered information ahead of that play before you heard it.