music streaming

[umbrulla Core]

So i've never had issues with SL, but on some parcels the music stream doesn't come through. Generally i don't have issues with music streams, but sometimes i walk into a silent club and its eerie. I know its not a problem with group tags, i have everything set to automatically allow, and at this point i'm wondering if its my firewall causing the problem. Does anyone have any suggestion? I'm using the regular SL viewer.

[Nalates Urriah]

Turn the firewall off and try. That will determine if is a firewall issue. Probably not.

You might try changing your DNS service. Music streams come from 3rd parties. Your viewer issues a request for the connection from info SL provides. It then relies on your computer's DNS connection to find the music server. 

You might also try turning off your anti-virus for a few minutes to see if it is blocking the channel/site. If you are using Windows Defender, don't bother. It isn't the problem.

Try relogging in the region that is not working.

Check your viewer stats packet loss (Ctrl-Shift-1). If you are losing packets it is possible you've missed the connection and need to retry. The relog should catch this.

 

[umbrulla Core]

Thank you so much for the help! Changing DNS It seemed to fix the overall problem but i still have issues with a single parcel i frequent, i'm wondering is it possible to have a streaming service blocked in my country or by an ISP? I got the raw link to the stream but it doesn't open in any of my browsers.

[Whirly Fizzle]

7 hours ago, umbrulla Core said:

Thank you so much for the help! Changing DNS It seemed to fix the overall problem but i still have issues with a single parcel i frequent, i'm wondering is it possible to have a streaming service blocked in my country or by an ISP? I got the raw link to the stream but it doesn't open in any of my browsers.

Yes it's possible that a music stream will not play for you if it is blocked for a certain country or it's been blocked by your ISP etc.

Can you post the music stream URL here so we can test it?