# Hifiberry problems with streaming

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558>\
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)\
**Created:** [January 28, 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558 "2015-01-28T12:25:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![DarkHelmet](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/darkhelmet/32/732_2.png) [@DarkHelmet](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/DarkHelmet)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/21 "2015-01-29T20:16:26Z")

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What setting for gstreaming buffer do you have in /boot/config/settings.ini?  
I have: output = alsasink buffer-time=200000 latency-time=10000

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**Author:** ![Matthew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/matthew/32/79_2.png) [@Matthew](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Matthew)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/22 "2015-01-29T20:35:25Z")

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I’ve reverted to mopidy\_tunein 0.1.2 for the time being. I changed my gstreaming buffer setting to the same as yours but still suffer the same pause problem.

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/23 "2015-01-29T21:00:51Z")

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Thanks for the log, your error case is quite interesting and the new tunein  
version doesn’t handle it very well (as you found out!)

What happens if you just try and add  
[http://sc27.frf.llnw.net:80/stream/bbcmedia\_radio3\_mf\_p](http://sc27.frf.llnw.net:80/stream/bbcmedia_radio3_mf_p) as a stream uri in  
the musicbox Web client? Does that work?

Unfortunately a builder has cut through my phone line at home so I am  
unable to do any proper experiments. Very frustrating.

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**Author:** ![Matthew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/matthew/32/79_2.png) [@Matthew](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Matthew)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/24 "2015-01-30T09:07:29Z")

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I’ve put that URI in as a stream URI and it plays. I still get the pause before it starts though.

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/25 "2015-01-30T09:31:49Z")

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Sounds like getting the gst\_debug log might be worthwhile. And doing a  
wired connection experiment.

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**Author:** ![Matthew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/matthew/32/79_2.png) [@Matthew](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Matthew)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/26 "2015-01-30T10:32:17Z")

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I’ve managed to do a wired test - no difference to the problem unfortunately.

The full GST debug log is at [http://pastebin.com/gZFSXTiv](http://pastebin.com/gZFSXTiv) (it killed dpaste…)

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**Author:** ![Matthew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/matthew/32/79_2.png) [@Matthew](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Matthew)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/27 "2015-01-30T10:50:08Z")

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I just thought I’d also try spotify as that streams as well and that seems to work perfectly so it looks like the problem is only when streaming a radio station or podcast.

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/28 "2015-02-09T15:34:14Z")

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I’ve since tried the latest image and, like @DarkHelmet, I don’t experience this problem. Sadly the GST debug log doesn’t reveal anything (to me) either.

Have you tried disabling everything except TuneIn/Dirble?

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**Author:** ![Matthew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/matthew/32/79_2.png) [@Matthew](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Matthew)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/29 "2015-02-16T22:11:25Z")

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Hi

Thanks for all your help so far on this. I’ve tried disabling  
everything but no luck. I’ll keep looking and report back anything I find.

Mat.

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**Author:** ![Matthew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/matthew/32/79_2.png) [@Matthew](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Matthew)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/30 "2015-03-04T16:59:02Z")

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Hi

Firstly, thanks for looking into this. I have tried disabling  
everything but I still get the same results. I’ll keep looking and post  
anything I find.

Thanks

MAt.

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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2564_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/hifiberry-problems-with-streaming/558/31 "2026-02-19T11:47:48Z")

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