Transcoded radio streams have stopped working

[DavidHB]

I described the process I used to set up transcoded radio streams (in particular the BBC HLS streams) in this thread. All was working well. Suddenly, I find that the transcoded streams fail to play.

Non-transcoded streams play from the playlist perfectly well. Transcoding of music files is also working. It is only the transcoded radio streams (mp3 as well as aac) that fail. The player 'sees' the playlist entry and displays its title, but then just displays the 'waiting' icon for a while, and then stops.

For diagnostic purposes, I am using a test.m3u file containing only the entry for the Linn Classical station given in the User Guide, that is:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,[Linn] Linn Radio Classical
[http:]//radio.linnrecords.com/cast/tunein.php/linnclassical/playlist.pls
(square brackets inserted in the previous line to prevent the creation of a link)

I have tried this using MinimServer/Minimstreamer installations on both my NAS and my PC. These are the essentially identical transcoding properties I am using on the two installations:



There is a difference in the behaviour of the two installations. From the NAS, both playlist entries show in the Control Point, but the "[Linn] Linn Radio Classical" (transcoded) entry fails to play, as described. The "Linn Radio Classical" entry plays normally. From the PC, only the "Linn Radio Classical" entry is visible, and plays normally. At the moment, I cannot think of a reason for this difference.

There are only two recent changes to my system that could conceivably have a bearing. Firstly my Linn players have been updated to Davaar 29. This implements the BBC HLS streams in the standard Linn/TuneIn arrangement (these streams cannot be transcoded as they bypass the server). Secondly, the transition to fibre-optic broadband meant that I had to change my router. The router is not in the path taken by the streamed music, but everything had to go on a different subnet, so I am running all devices on DHCP until I get round to allocating fixed addresses to those that should have them. I am inclined to think that these changes are not relevant, but I mention them just in case.

I'd be grateful for suggestions as to what I should investigate next.

David