If you are on the last stream in a playlist for KM Player it will not resume on internet disconnect for me. I would expect it to go back to the first item in the playlist to try and resume play but it does not. Is there a loop option somewhere that I am missing?

Have you tried the new Mediabox 2010-11-11?

I haven't experienced that problem. What I have noticed with KM Player is if no internet connection is available for more than a minute or so it gives up trying. There is a buffering facility with this too, it is a bit long winded but where you have pockets of poor signal it can work. When you start the stream, press pause, this buffers it until you hit play again. I would give mine about a 30 second buffer before leaving home listening to it, then on the move that buffer would usually be enough to give me a constant stream.

I also found the stations I listened to had 24kbps AAC streams available so I put these on instead of the MP3 or WMA streams which use higher transfer rates, so find a station with low bitrates if you can.

Finally I was originally on Vodafone in the UK, their network is badly congested. I would get full bars of 3G signal but it still dropped stations due to congestion their end. I was one of the people who managed to get out of their contract with the recent changes to data use, so I went to 3. They are a 3G only network (with 2G backup from another provider) so they have really good coverage. I found them to be worse than Vodafone amazingly, considering their 3G network was built from scratch in the past 10 years. Stations only worked for me if I had 3.5G, a 3G signal gave me such low data rates that it couldn't cope with 24kbps AAC!

I ended up leaving 3 and I am now on T-Mobile, I barely make any calls or texts as I concentrate on the web instead, that was the reason for me getting this phone, their pay as you go allows me to buy 6 months of internet for £20, working out at £3.33 per month and I get 1GB for this (and texts are 3p each on text appeal, calls are expensive at 25p per min but I rarely make calls). I get a good transfer rate with them and don't even have to buffer a stream now.

So to sum it up, some of your issues may be caused by your network coverage.

I was finally able to stream radio all night long through mediabox 2010-11-11. The streaming radio kept stopping due to network coverage (In my case WiFi) but more so on the n900 side. The solution was to disable power saving on the phone. This is why ALL players were getting stuck eventually.

The hidden setting that fixed things for me although it drains battery way faster!
Settings >> Internet connections >> Connections >> New >> Next >> Yes >> Next >> Advanced >> Other = Power Saving: Off

I confirmed this worked by leaving the n900 streaming overnight and verifying that it was still streaming in the morning.

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With KMPlayer you can replicate the streaming radio stopping by playing the very last track in the playlist then by either:
1. Disconnecting and reconnecting internet.
2. Pressing the skip to next track button.
In both situations I would expect it to go back to the first track for the station, but it doesn't.

Right now my favorite player is probably Mediabox for streaming because of the desktop widget that shows the song name and title and you can pause or play from this widget.

PSP still streams all night long no problem, and now so does the n900.

It may also be important that the transmit power settings for my WRT54GL/Gargoyle router were decreased to 126mW from 1496mW! See:
http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb....php?f=8&t=932

See also:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Wifi_power_saving_mode

This problem just began this morning on my N900.

Previously streaming radio would go for hours with no problems, but now stations will stop after40 seconds to three minutes and the play button must be used to re-start.

It seems to not be a wifi issue, as after I had the problem with several streaming radio stations, I switched over to Pandora via PyRadio & had no problems.

With MPlayer, -loop 0 makes it retry whenever it gets disconnected. Probably doesn't have any code for detecting if remote side has silently vanished, though.