Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...

2009-11-07 Thread spyhunter
Thanks alot guys, it's already survived a router reboot, so I have faith that this will give us much better reliability, however Logitech really needs to just add an automatic reconnect option, no matter how long the wait. BTW, is there a term for slow broadband, or is it just that? I always tho

Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...

2009-11-05 Thread brucegrr
Satellite latency + low connection speed...recipe for the problems you are having. Your connection speed is nowhere near broadband speed...Much closer to dial-up. Please remember that your streaming of radio is just one program/service that is accessing the internet. I suspect you are st

Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...

2009-11-04 Thread bpa
Satellite links have long transmission times - 0.5 secs and radio has small buffer which would affect it packet window size. Which means it could take 1 sec between radio requesting a packet to top up the internal buffer and it actually arriving at the radio. This sort of delay can be tolerated wi

Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...

2009-11-04 Thread spyhunter
Thanks for trying to help, but this doesn't appear to work since it was already set to repeat the playlist, and I already had several stations in my list, so if this were true it would have been playing the other stations when it came back, and it has never changed stations like that, it just come

Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...

2009-11-03 Thread ghostrider
I'm running backlevel sofware so I don't know about Squeezebox Server but there is a timeout value that you can specify which determines how long the Squeezebox will attempt to reconnect before timing out. Upping that value may help. By the way, 100K is no where near "broadband". -- ghostrider

Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...

2009-11-03 Thread amcluesent
>better yet reconnect as soon as a signal is detected< Make your radio station a favourite, then start playing that favourite. Add the favourite again to the end of the playlist (so that the stations appears twice in the playlist). Set the player to repeat playlist. When your 'broadband' dro

[slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...

2009-11-03 Thread spyhunter
Why is the top feature of this Internet Radio not the ability to reconnect to an internet radio station when the internet signal drops in speed or hiccups? Who wants to listen to silence? Did the designers expect everybody to have screaming fast broadband? I have to press play on this thing 20