I have tried everything in my power to help eliminate these error
messages with various setting changes in squeezebox server such as:

-Power On Resume: Stop at power off/Reset playlist at power on
-Changing the player's Audio MP3 Streaming Method to Direct Streaming
-Disable UPnP Client
-Server priority= -6 Above Normal

I have also added multiple fully registered accounts to Slacker and
Sirius Radio (I had to pay more for these extra accounts) and added
these secondary accounts to separate Squeezebox clients.

I'm not sure which of these helped or not, but the frequency of getting
these error messages (mentioned in the thread title) are less frequent.

I can't pinpoint what is left to eliminate these errors once in for
all; however, I am hoping that Andy could please offer any suggestions
that could prevent these errors.  

I still think it would be a good idea for Andy to take a closer look at
the way clients start/stop audio streams; and, see if there's a
provision that could be made on mysqueeebox.com to flush old audio
streams (even if the audio stream is already stopped on the client).  As
long as the music service provider doesn't continuing to receive a
"ghost"/stray audio stream caused by a squeezebox/client audio stream
anomaly in TCP sockets, we should be fine. 

All I'm hoping for Andy (I know its a PITA), but having an extra
provision to cleanly stop any previous audio streams under a user
account for respective music service (that's not heard on the client),
it would be greatly appreciated by not only the end user; but, also by
the Internet service provider as well. This would also help reduce
issues on mysqueezebox with audio stream leaks which can prevent having
to restart thebackend (possibly caused by audio stream leaks such as
this).   

Of course, the above pararaph is all pure speculation.  Not knowing the
techical reasons behind having a backend mysquezebox.com "proxy", in
general it makes sense to move over these functionalities to the user's
personal mysqueezebox server... where the user can manually enter their
username/passwords for each music service.  This would reduce lag time,
less dependancies, less money/time/resources to maintain
mysqueezebox.com; and just offer an auto-updater for squeezebox.com
server for critical changes.  Bottom line, this would also reducethe
likelyhood of unaccounted for audio streams going into the
mysqueezebox.com abyss due to Internet connetion hickups, timeouts, etc
since there's an extra component that's in between the users's
squeezebox server and each music service provider.

Anyway, please.. in the short term goal at least add a provision to use
a more agressive method to cut off any previous "ghost"/remnant audio
connections to the respective music service (caused by TCP/IP connetion
"hickups" not recovered correctly) before starting a new song/station
from the same service provider.

Thanks for your time to help improve the reliability of your service.

Sincerely,
Michael 
Anonymous Senior Network Engineer from a Federal Government Agency


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