Just to confirm that this problem is defo affecting the vanilla live BBC streams, as well. Currently running LMS 7.8.0 on a dedicated Vortexbox Appliance in the UK and have been a long-time listener to the bog-standard BBC streams [mainly] via a Boom, but sometimes via Squeezeplay/Desktop PC. Since I am selecting the streams from the standard LMS Radio menu, I assume that they are the Shoutcast mp3 streams (LMS 'playing' pane shows [for example] -BBC Radio 4 (London), BBC Radio 4 93.5, 128kbps CBR, Radio-).
Before the BBC started this messing around, there were occasional rebuffers (never more than one or twice a day) but now, there is a high incidence of intermittent but frequent stuttering/rebuffering which makes the stream all but unlistenable. Occurrence doesn't seem to conform to any observable pattern or audience size (e.g. I've had it occurring in the middle of the afternoon whilst 8.30 in the morning was fine) but, when it does kick in, rebuffering seems to occur every 30 secs or so and goes on for ages. It's definitely a BBC problem cos, whilst it's occurring, if you switch to a non-BBC stream (e.g. Radio Paradise, Bay Smooth Jazz etc), they play perfectly. I get the impression that it occurs less frequently with Squeezeplay than it does with the Boom but I haven't yet got round to properly testing this, yet. My [non-technical] wife is an avid BBC listener, is rapidly loosing her patience with this situation and is starting to make veiled (and not so veiled) threats about getting shot of this "internet radio junk" and getting a simple DAB radio. I was planning to install Triode's plugin hoping in the hope that the problem was only associated with the Shoutcast streams but am I correct in thinking that people are also seeing this rebuffering via his iPlayer live stream? All thoughts and comments appreciated ------------------------------------------------------------------------ enz01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41282 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103481 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
