Bug 95642 – last.fm songs are interrupted and jumped to next

• Component: WebCore Misc.
• Status: UNCONFIRMED

[Juan Falgueras]

Created attachment 161823 [details]
zip-folder of Screenshots of the bandwidth with Safari and Chrome

This is an old problem and only present for those like me that follow last fm radio music.  In this service you select a tag style or a musician and it plays with no end, songs related to that.  The problem is with Safari/WebKit (no matter the version), the play is interrupted frequently…  It is impossible to enjoy it and you shame on what?  If you use the iPhone application, it works like the heaven, no breaks, perfectly, in the same network, also with wifi…  But if you play this service with their application, in the Mac, not the web application, but the desktop application, you also have jumps!!  Funnily, if you play in the same mac or other with any kind of connection, with Chrome or FIreFox, NO problem at all appears!  It works perfectly.  I am going wild with this problem.  It is there since long time ago, it is not a Mountain Lion nor, Lion, nor Snow Leopard, nor Leopard, problem…

I think the problem comes from the way the data is streamed.  Last fm is streamed in around a flux of 18kb/s.  If you watch the network monitor when Safari is playing you see a sustained flux of around 19kb/s and around 5s short and sharp decays to near 0kb/s…  and this eventually cuts the connection… If you watch the network monitor with Chrome, you don't see this so deep falls in the speed but a more irregular flux of data on different speeds and never so low as Safari reaches.  It never stops, it never cuts the communication.  It seems it is a matter of buffer handling and some kind of spurious end of connection signal because a misunderstood inactivity observed…

Is there any solutions?