Playlist problem - plays each station on list in turn for few seconds

[simoncn]

The problem might be caused by embedded "Icy" metadata in the stream. This contains information about what song is playing now and occurs every few seconds. Some players don't expect this, so they think the stream is corrupt and stop playing the stream after a few seconds when they encounter the first or second chunk of metadata.

When you add the extra line (with or without transcoding), MinimStreamer filters the stream and removes the "Icy" metadata, so the player is happy.