I am not sure where to post this, as there are quite a few threads about connectivity problems for internet radio playback, in several different forums. I had problems with Pandora and other internet services (slacker, live365) immediately after upgrading to 7.5. I first worked on the ALAC crashes, and we got that working now (fixed in the newest 7.5.1 updates). Next is to try to figure out why Pandora wouldn't play more than one or two songs without halting playback. It is as if someone just pressed Stop.
I found this started happening after upgrading to 7.5, which immediately required my SB3 to have a firmware update. When I went back to 7.4.2, the other problem (apple lossless crashes) went away, but the Pandora/radio problem continued. I have noticed that my firmware did not update when going back (I am not sure if it should have, but I think I read in another thread that it should have). This leads me to believe the new SB3 firmware is the source of the problem. It was the only thing that remained after uninstalling 7.5 and reverting to 7.4.2. Also note that I had exactly the same problem both connected to mysqueezebox.com, and connected to SB3 locally, so I do not think it is specific to either of those. I believe I have solved the problem (I am now running 7.5.1) in my case by increasing the buffering and network timeout values. In SBS, the settings page, you go into Advanced > Network. I doubled the Radio Station Buffer Seconds from 3 to 6, and doubled the Radio Timeout seconds from 5 to 10. Since then I was able to play Pandora all day today without loss of connectivity. In mysqueezebox.com, you can go to My Players > Network, and set the Radio Station Buffer Seconds to 6, in the same way. (I don't see a timeout setting there). At this point I am guessing that something about the new firmware has introduced some occasional glitches that can interrupt playback, and that the longer timeout and buffer settings alleviate the problem. If you try it and it doesn't work you could try even larger values, or if it works you may be able to reduce them somewhat. However I don't notice any negative to the change in settings (I would expect a few extra seconds to start the radio streaming). I hope this helps some of you. -- sharpnine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sharpnine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23243 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77428 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
