Pandora ends abruptly

[jlg84]

I have noticed that when playing Pandora through my Squeezebox the songs will occasionally--sometimes often--end abruptly, with the next song commencing thereafter as though the song had ended properly. Any idea what I can do about this?

[andyg]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:59 PM, jlg84 wrote:

>
> I have noticed that when playing Pandora through my Squeezebox the
> songs
> will occasionally--sometimes often--end abruptly, with the next song
> commencing thereafter as though the song had ended properly. Any idea
> what I can do about this?

I haven't seen this. Are you sure the song isn't supposed to end
where it ends? Many albums have tracks that just run together, and
on Pandora they'll sound like they got cut off.

You say it happens often, so can you share the affected station with
me so I can listen and see if it happens to me? Login at Pandora.com
and click Share -> Email current station to a friend, and then send
it to me at andy (AT) slimdevices (DOT) com.

Thanks,
-Andy

[jlg84]

I have found this happening on several of my Pandora channels, with songs that I am familiar with as well as new ones. I am sending you the channel I was listening to this evening when it was happening again.

[andyg]

jlg84 wrote:
> I have found this happening on several of my Pandora channels, with
> songs that I am familiar with as well as new ones. I am sending you
> the channel I was listening to this evening when it was happening
> again.

I've been listening to your station for a while and haven't heard any problems
with songs ending too soon. I wonder if the problem is that your internet
connection has a problem keeping up with the stream. If the buffer runs out on
the player it will send an "underrun" event back to the server which will cause
it to skip to the next track. Do you have problems playing Pandora using the
Flash app on their website? Problems with other 128k streams?

-Andy

[jlg84]

There does not seem to be any problem with my internet connection, and the problem I described only happens when I'm using the Squeezebox, not when listening through my computer. Also, the next song begins immediately, so it's not as though there is a lag when the one song ends suddenly.

[mhuie]

I'm having the same issues also.

It stops in the middle of the songs, and the next song starts instantly. Sometimes the song plays for several minutes and it goes onto the next song, sometimes even within seconds.

I've tried it via a wired connection and same thing.

[e3954]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:59 PM, jlg84 wrote:

>
> I have noticed that when playing Pandora through my Squeezebox the
> songs
> will occasionally--sometimes often--end abruptly, with the next song
> commencing thereafter as though the song had ended properly. Any idea
> what I can do about this?

I haven't seen this. Are you sure the song isn't supposed to end
where it ends? Many albums have tracks that just run together, and
on Pandora they'll sound like they got cut off.

You say it happens often, so can you share the affected station with
me so I can listen and see if it happens to me? Login at Pandora.com
and click Share -> Email current station to a friend, and then send
it to me at andy (AT) slimdevices (DOT) com.

Thanks,
-Andy

I'm not sure this is the right place to be inserting my comment. This same thing happens to me from time to time and it is a very minor irritation; however, it did it three songs in succession just today. The song started to play, went on for a brief while (a minute or less), stopped abruptly, then started another song, as if I had fast forwarded the first song (which I hadn't, of course). Then it did it again on the next piece of music, and again for the third time. This was about an hour ago; it has been behaving itself since then. I did notice a screen flash on the squeezebox much earlier today before I ever started streaming music. A firmware update gone slightly wrong?

[andyg]

On May 21, 2006, at 11:46 AM, e3954 wrote:

>
> andyg Wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:59 PM, jlg84 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have noticed that when playing Pandora through my Squeezebox the
>>> songs
>>> will occasionally--sometimes often--end abruptly, with the next song
>>> commencing thereafter as though the song had ended properly. Any
>> idea
>>> what I can do about this?
>>
>> I haven't seen this. Are you sure the song isn't supposed to end
>> where it ends? Many albums have tracks that just run together, and
>> on Pandora they'll sound like they got cut off.
>>
>> You say it happens often, so can you share the affected station with
>> me so I can listen and see if it happens to me? Login at Pandora.com
>>
>> and click Share -> Email current station to a friend, and then send
>> it to me at andy (AT) slimdevices (DOT) com.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Andy
>
> I'm not sure this is the right place to be inserting my comment. This
> same thing happens to me from time to time and it is a very minor
> irritation; however, it did it three songs in succession just today.
> The song started to play, went on for a brief while (a minute or
> less),
> stopped abruptly, then started another song, as if I had fast
> forwarded
> the first song (which I hadn't, of course). Then it did it again on
> the next piece of music, and again for the third time. This was about
> an hour ago; it has been behaving itself since then. I did notice a
> screen flash on the squeezebox much earlier today before I ever
> started
> streaming music. A firmware update gone slightly wrong?

Most likely you got disconnected from SN briefly or the SN instance
you were connected to crashed. When it reconnects it will pick a new
Pandora song to play and cause the current song to stop plating. A
fix for this is on my todo list.

[mark-e-mark]

It used to be once in a while, but today it's frequent. I'm trying to figure out if there are any settings on the wireless router to help. It only happens with Pandora; SB performance is flawless.

[crane]

I'm new so please excuse me if this should have been a new thread.

In addition to the problems mentioned with songs occasionally ending abruptly I've noticed a couple of other issues.

1) My Squeezebox 3 seems quite sluggish while playing on Pandora (volume doesn't respond on remote or gets stuck on volume display, other controls too).

2) It crashed! Just went completely dark. Nothing worked but unplugging and replugging.

I've just been using it for a day or so... Perhaps it's not specific to Pandora?

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

Craig