Thanks to all for helping with the issue.
Posters who disagreed with the title of this thread were correct--the problem of playback stopping does not appear to be related to having an internet connection. When connected to the internet, in exactly one experiment, the music stopped playing much as it did when not connected to the internet. So my thought that "phoning home" appeared to be required was wrong. You will recall that I am playing music from a thumb drive only. The one experiment saw its failure when I was out of town, so I do not know exactly how long it took; it was between 3 and 6 days. My experience without internet connection failed after 5 days when I timed it carefully; I think it was similar in the other four or so failures. (The library I am using is about 40 hours of music.) When the music stops playing, I get the message, "Local music service has stopped due to a problem." When I press the "back' button, I read, "There is a problem connecting to Squeezebox Touch (USB)." When I choose the "Try again" option, I get the same result. When I navigate to the Home menu and select My Music, I get the message, "We couldn't connect to Squeezebox Touch (USB). Make sure your computer is turned on and connected to your local network, and that Logitech Media Server is currently running." The try again option gets the same result. So I pull the power plug and start over. This is actually a little hard to do, and doing it every five days for many years will probably result in a broken connector. You may recall my use model is that this Touch is used to cycle my wife's library, which she might only play a couple of times a month. So my monitoring it and keeping it running is excessively burdensome. The suggestion that I connect a timer to restart it every night does not seem to work, because the startup state is not my desired one. My desired state is random mix by album. I find it surprising (as well as obviously disappointing) that it behaves this way, because I also have LMS running in a Raspberry Pi for six months now, and it never has stopped on its own. Any suggestions? Should I start a new thread about stopping playing? If this problem applies to all users of "random mix," you would think I could find it by searching the forum, and I cannot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ joegorin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68547 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110255 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
