Streaming radio stops after 30 min

What happens if you try listening to a radio stream in a new user account? To create a new account, open System Preferences and click on Accounts. You may have to click on the padlock and give your admin name and password to create an account. Click on the plus sign in the lower right corner to create the new account. I see no reason to give it a password. You can delete this account later using using the minus key, although I have kept my second account to use for testing (the user folder only takes up 32 kb).

Could it have something to do with any Energy Saver Settings in System Preferences? Do you have computer to sleep in 30 minutes or put hard disk to sleep when possible?

just a thought...

John

Good thing to double check. I looked at my settings and I know I've listened to a stream for a longer period then the sleep setting, but it doesn't hurt to look into it.

I get the same bloody thing. Stream stops (or app stops the stream) at various times. Energy Saver always set to never. Happens on my eMac, less on my G5 iMac, but still there. I have to get up and go to the other room and hit the iTunes play button. Makes me crazy.

I'm having the same problem with iTunes and Windows media player. It's a little bit more precise though, I lose the feed on the hour and the half hour. Pop up and it indicates network stalled, just happened again 1 minute ago. I hit stop and click on the iTunes arrow and immediately the stream continues. I have noticed that if I listen to an archive from a radio station via Real it will continue for the whole hour without timing out or rebuffering. I'm beginning to wonder if my ISP is knocking me off to make me reload to save bandwidth. I have two powerbooks an iMac and a Fujitsu tablet and they all get knocked off every thirty minutes.

Imac g4 1.25 ghz w/ 20 Cinema, 2 Powerbooks, 2 Newton MP2100's, Fujitsu PC Tablet Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Sometimes the stream will play all night for 8 hours.

Has anyone figured this out yet? I performed a couple experiments today. First I opened iTunes and started streaming my favorite radio station, rebuffers on the 1/2 and hour and won't reconnect. Tried it with WMP and real player, timed out at the 1/2 and hour mark. Tried it connected via cable ethernet this time, faster downloads but still rebuffered on the 1/2 and top of the hour. Had all three Powerbooks connected via Airport, same thing, will not rebuffer. Opened iTunes on my tablet and it rebuffered and would not reconnect. Opened WMP on tablet and it played all day, it would reconnect on the 1/2 and hour without help whereas all my macs would not reconnect. Spent a lot of time in my Network Utility logs but I don't know what I'm looking at if it were staring me in the face.
Turned off my firewall and passive proxy, still rebuffering. This is ******* me off as this is my 49er station when the season starts.

Imac g4 1.25 ghz w/ 20 Cinema, 3 Powerbooks, 2 Newton MP2100's, Fujitsu PC Tablet Mac OS X (10.4.7)