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Both my players freeze on occasion now, only solvable by removing the power from them


Hmm.. I'm disappointed to hear this. I've used both of my players for fairly long periods of time and haven't had them lock up yet. Is it only when using Shoutcast streams or does this also occur while using the Rio server software?

Regarding pbar's problem with the player restarting when you try to play streams, what kind of setup do you have for an Internet connection? Are you using connection sharing or NAT or something, or does your network require a proxy to access the internet?

Looks like I'll have to add some more code in to debug these problems...