joegorin wrote: > 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.
This is all exactly as various respondents have told you, the Touch doesn't have the hardware, it runs out of memory and stops, is a pain to get it restarted, it will never be updated. Start a new thread if you wish, nothing to stop you. Good luck :) *Study/Server - LMS 7.9.2 -* Pi3B+/pCP 4.1.0/pi screen/HiFiBerry DAC+/jivelite, 25K library and playlists on WDMyCloud, LMS cache on a USB stick (formatted ntfs). *Lounge* - Pi2/pCP 4.1.0 > HiFiBerry DIGI+ > AudioEngine DAC1 > AVI DM5 *Dining Room* - Squeezebox Boom *Garage* - Pi3B/Pi screen/HiFiBerry DAC+/pCP 4.1.0 > Edifier R980T *In car* - RPi3B/pCP in AP mode > HiFiBerry DAC+ > car's audio (files on a 2TB USB drive) *Spares* - 2xTouch, 1xSB3, 1xRadio, 4xRPi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110255 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
