Why Is Streaming So Mediocre?

[radiofan2023]

The problem I am having more and more when I stream on my phone (i've had a Galaxy for about 4 years with plenty of space, RAM, etc).

Most of the streaming internet stations I listened to several years ago would play for hours until I closed them.

Nowadays, many of these same streaming sites will either "time out" after 10 minutes of inactivity (I have to keep tapping the screen every few minutes), or moments after I switch to another window to do other things.

I want to say it's Samsung Galaxy system & sofrware updates on the phone that are the culprit, but I can't find any settings pages that could address this issue. (If anyone knows, let me know how to fix).

You might look on these forums to see if anyone else has the same issues:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsunggalaxy/

Phones

us.community.samsung.com

 

[PTBoardOp93]

Most likely you need to set your preferred streaming app as a background app: How to prevent apps from 'sleeping' in the background on Android

 

[mpxbroadcast]

AAC-HE at 24bps isn't bad, and sounds OK on cheap speakers at 16kb. We keep a coupe demo streams up that I had forgotten about:

http://somafm.com/groovesalad16.pls

http://somafm.com/groovesalad24.pls

We're using the Orban/StreamS encoders, fronted with Orban 1101 processing.

I remember hearing SomaFM when i was learning about radio. Your station is a inspiration for all my radio related work today.