Why do internet radios drop stations. Are some radios better at not dropping stations?
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Generally, internet radio is streaming audio... And this streaming process relies on a certain amount of throughput being available- on the server to upload it, and on the client (your machine) to download it. There is usually some buffering that occurs so that some of the data is already ready to play (already downloaded) but if you catch up to the point that no more audio is available from the server then you experience a drop out until the client again receives more data from the server. So this could be a function of your throughput/connection speed, or of the inability of the radio "station" to provide data fast enough. Stations stream at different bit rates - the higher the bitrate the better the quality (usually) but also the more data is required... Since some stations utilize lower bitrates, you may have better luck connecting to these. | |||||
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