Using TuneIn from within the 4Stream App, I have some issues with streaming radio stations.
What happens:
When starting a radio station, the stream won’t start. It either takes for ever to get the stream started, or I get a pop-up message saying: “Prompt - Now can’t play, please choose others” (see picture below).
When the radio station does start streaming, within 2 minutes it pauses for 2 to 5 seconds (silence) and then continues.
Yes, there is such a problem. But this is a problem not an application, but in the absence of broadcast on the Tunein side.
Pause about 2 seconds is normal. The device needs some time to buffering the content (this is my personal opinion).
I get your point, and obviously hick-ups can occur. But I think that my current experience is about something else. Especially the fact that some radio stations are not able to connect at all, or need 3 - 5 attempts before they connect.
I have another, additional experience with this issue.
Speakers setup
I have 3 speakers, devided over two rooms. Two are in a living room (grouped as a stereo set), the other one is in a kitchen.
What happens
When using Spotify: everything works well on all speakers in each room. Streams always start smoothly.
When using TuneIn: the speakers in the living room work well, but the speaker in the kitchen doesn’t. 5 out of 10 times, the stream from TuneIn does not start.
Additional
To be complete, the indication for WiFi signal strength is shown by 4Stream App is 100% for the speakers in the living room and 42% in the kitchen.
My first thought of course is that 42% is too low and the cause of the problem. But on the other hand, Spotify has no issues the start streams on this ‘weak’ signal, it always starts without any problem.