Solved - Deezer dropping last seconds of tracks

[ricko01]

I stream both Tidal and Deezer to my Transporter.

I got Tidal first and way back I had dropout issues with Tidal which was resolved by setting proxied streaming.

As a last resort to resolve the losing of the last few seconds of each track in Deezer, I reset LMS to direct streaming and it solved the issue.

I will try Tidal a bit later and see of it now works ok with direct streaming.

Posting as it may help others.

Peter

[remd]

Thanks for sharing!

We have recommended proxied streaming and set it by default for high resolution services like Tidal as the stream quality coming from Tidal wasn't optimal initially, they have however improved it since then and direct streaming should work fine in most cases.

[dhallag]

Yea I had to switch to proxy to make it not pause during play...

[Malveaux]

Good to know this. What's the exact difference between direct and proxy streaming btw? I'm just curious.

[warwick]

Got it! Thanks.

[garym]

Good to know this. What's the exact difference between direct and proxy streaming btw? I'm just curious.

Direct, the stream, once started is going from source to the player. Proxy, the stream is going from source to your LMS server, then from LMS server to player. If one has two or more players synched, then proxy streaming is automatically used.

[cdmackay]

This problem seems to have come back for me recently (running LMS 7.9.2).

I've just tried switching from Proxied (which I've run for years) to Direct, to see if that helped, and it happened again within a few minutes: track stops mid-track and leaps straight to next track.

Anyone else seeing this problem come back?