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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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.
