I had given up with this thread, but since you raise it again, I take some time to give my thoughts about this problem. I find astonishing than somebody can say that a thread which title is "Radio streaming stops intermittently" is only about BBC iplayer plugin. Even if in this specific case, it might be so. Anyway as someone who is in the software business, I do consider than the original problem raised in this thread can be related to BBC, but I also do consider that it actually may be due to something else. Squeezeboxes products are prone to rebuffering problems, no matter if that is due to hardware, mysqueezebox.com, firmware, internal plugins, external plugins, or whatever else, I don't know. You will find a lot of posts complaining about that, and there is always a good reason to blame something else than squeezeboxes. I was adviced to open a new thread about that, I am sorry, I gave up. I have the feeling that if I say that I am using a wired connection with a Belkin brand cable, some smart guy will come and say that my rebuffering problem thread is specific to "Rebuffering problem specifically related to Belkin brand cables wired squeezeboxes " ... Let's face it, squeezeboxes DO HAVE rebuffering problems. I can compare with other software/systems used to listen to internet radios. Rebuffering problems are more frequent, and more annoying with squeezeboxes. When rebuffering also occurs in others systems, the rebuffering time is much longer (actually inacceptably longer in my opinion) with squeezebox than with others systems. I am in the businness of developping commercial softwares for end users. Squeezebox Touch is not a free product, it can be considered as somewhat expensive for a lot of people. This kind of problem should definitly not be treated in this "geek" way. A paying customer doesn't want to know why it doesn't work. He wants a product that actually work fine, period. I have owned squeezeboxes for several years now. I am in the computers and software business. I switched from SB3 to Touch to use TinySBS. I gave up because TinySBS is definitly not working the way it should, and I came to the conclusion it cannot handle a large library of flac files. I could make it work fine, and wait from time to time, when unexpected rescanning occurs. I won't because I didn't bought this Touch to debug it, or wait 10 minutes when I would like to listen to music. So I use the Touch the way I used my SB3, plus the Touch screen which is nice, plus the better built in dac, and I am fine with that. TinySBS is not mature, I don't want to lose my time with it, and I am satisfied with the Touch without TinySBS. But rebuffering problems are getting worse, it is not serious to deny it. It can work fine for some time (it has actually been working fine for me last weeks). But I regularly have problems, like many other people, and when I have rebuffering problems, it is either - only with squeezebox - or much worse with squeezebox than with others software/systems.
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