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 Running Shairport 2.0
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-The `'L'` setting is for the amount of latency -- the units are frames, with 44,100 frames to the second. Although 99,000 frames  is slightly more than two seconds, it sounds good, as does 99,300 -- YMMV.
+The `-L` setting is for the amount of latency -- the units are frames, with 44,100 frames to the second. Although 99,000 frames  is slightly more than two seconds, it sounds good, as does 99,300 -- YMMV.
 
 Examples
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