Just wondering. BBC Radio 6 Music - dropping off at least twice a day

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

We listen to the rather excellent BBC Radio 6 Music in the workshop here everyday.
It’s streams have rather thinned out over the years since aunty beebs policy of trying to force everyone over to iplayer/bbc sounds. (Now on AAC 48kHz 24Bit 2Ch).

Does anyone else have their stream, without fault, drop off at least twice a day, and require a prod of the play button again. We’re on a fat (ish) pipe here - at least 70Mbps over LAN. Nowt bandwidth or process hogging going on at the same time. Haven’t done any timings - will do that next week. But without fail twice a day it’ll just stop.

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

Weird.

It appears to drop every day at 11.22am GMT - Checked, nothing happening on the network or server at that time… Then again about 15.23pm GMT.

How odd… Colour me confused. Almost like the stream has a timer on it !!

[BrianW (Brian)]

Ok, I missed the 11.22 case, but I’ll endeavour to listen at 15.23. I assume it’s the default 320k stream?

What happens if you are listening to another station at those times?

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

Must admit - haven’t tried listening to owt else yet, might be related to when it gets switched on in the morning - around 8.55am just to add another possible ingredient into the diagnosis mixing cauldron.

I’ll connect it to KEXP - the other workshop favourite tomorrow, to see if it shows similar behaviour.

Might grab a Nucleus and a Nucleus+ off the shelf to see if they do the same thing as this is a ROCK - that has been rock solid since I knocked it up a couple of years ago.

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

And boom. 15.23 in the afternoon again. Weird !!! Will try another station tomorrow and set up a Nucleus on my test bench.

[BrianW (Brian)]

Nope. Not for me. Some interference is knocking your endpoint.

[alec_eiffel (Rémi)]

BBC Radio 6 has been very stable recently according to the logs of my metadata server, at least on the MP3 128kbps stream

[alec_eiffel (Rémi)]

Steady service this morning on BBC Radio 6 MP3 128kbps, no dropouts.

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

I’ll try switching to that stream to see if it makes any difference. Thanks !

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

Interestingly I can’t get the 128K MP3 stream to play at all !

[alec_eiffel (Rémi)]

@David_Brown

Interestingly I can’t get the 128K MP3 stream to play at all !

WOrks perfectly for me… Something funny on your side is happening. Some DNS related issues?
Can you play the 127kbps stream?

[BrianW (Brian)]

Both MP3 BBC 6 streams OK for me.

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

Changed to the 127kbps MP3 stream, same again drops at the two times, has to be something on our network.

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

I’ll change to another station on the other side of the globe to see if that makes any difference. Proper odd one !!

[alec_eiffel (Rémi)]

@David_Brown

Changed to the 127kbps MP3 stream, same again drops at the two times, has to be something on our network.

I confirm the problem is on “your side”. I can see a user connected to BBC Radio 6 on the 127kbps server for the last 9 hours, without any interruption.

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

Have changed to Google DNS - well our IT guys did - that was my next step after trying a completely different stream today - but they’ve jumped the gun for me

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

… and results just in, we have passed the witching hour without incident - gotta be DNS then Thanks all. @dylan FYI - please ignore my email !

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

Spoke too soon, dropped off around midday and again at 15.23hrs… Back to the drawing board. Next step to take the box home I reckon and try it on my home network…

[David_Brown (Dave Brown)]

OK, freakin me out now !!

Various stations show they are starting - e.g. the “Now Playing” message pops up, the playback controls show a “stop icon” on the transport control bar at the bottom of the page, but they are not playing and stick at 0:00 on the counter with no playback.

Some examples below. 1st One shows Radio 6 working. Rest = random stations not starting. Selecting these on another streamer on the same network - e.g. KEXP on my Pro-Ject Stream Box DS - playback fine. We are on a static IP using google DNS.

@noris

[noris]

Hi @David_Brown ,

@David_Brown

Some examples below. 1st One shows Radio 6 working. Rest = random stations not starting. Selecting these on another streamer on the same network - e.g. KEXP on my Pro-Ject Stream Box DS - playback fine.

This suggests that the issue is device specific since the other player works fine.

@David_Brown

It appears to drop every day at 11.22am GMT - Checked, nothing happening on the network or server at that time… Then again about 15.23pm GMT.

Does the issue occur on the other Pro-Ject at the same time? Does your IP address lease by any chance expire at that time?