I have a couple of questions about buffering.

When listening to a live radio stream, if Pre-buffering is set to, say, 10 seconds and a station is selected, I would expect a delay of at least 10 seconds before hearing audio. In fact, I hear audio within a second or two. Why is this?

If the "Buffer length" is set to, say, 40 seconds, when a live stream is selected I would expect a delay of at least 40 seconds for the buffer to be filled before I hear the first audio. As mentioned in my first question, I hear audio within a couple seconds of selecting the station. Why is this?

I read in an earlier post elsewhere on the forum that FFmpeg stream engine, which appears to be the default, does not support buffering. However, that was 10 months ago. Have things changed since then?

Does XiiaLive use a Wi-fi connection? Everytime I enable my Wi-fi connection at home, the connection drops and will not re-establish.

Using CM6.1.2 on a Droid. On 3G, Xiaalive works with very little drop...

 I have downloaded Light from Creative, but would like to buy the full version. I think I need to increase buffering, but can't do this on light.

The lite version is more stable than the paid version. Frequent "Server Busy" message whereby the connection usually drops (Droid X).

The Radioio.com station I listen to has a 64 bit stream and I seam to loose the connection often as it buffers and remakes the connection. Even on wifi. So, could connecting to a higher bit stream (which would cost me money) give me a more reliable connection? Or does the constant buffer and loss of connection something else? I use a Droid on Verizon with the free version of Xiia.

Also, would the pro version, where I could crank up the buffer, help?

On my original DRIOD, Xiia connected within 1-2 seconds. 

Recently upgraded to the Bionic, XIIA seems to hang on "99% buffering" for 5-8 seconds.Anything I can do/change?

I use Xiialive to access my home PC hosting SiriusXMStreamer....which works great. One issue though is that if I attempt to initially access one of my http links through your application, I get a "req not found!" error. If I access outside your app (via the web browser download/view option to XiiaLive) it works. At which point, I can access my other channels via favorites in the app.

I wasn't sure if there was something with the initial handshake in your app that could be corrected? Or if this is an initial with the data stack on the Droid?

Hi!
I am running CM11-20140504 Android 4.4.2 on Samsung Galaxy S (GT-i9000)
Although this device is little bit obsolete, still working fine, except Xiialive. All kind of streams I use (mp3, ogg, aac+) working fine, until I power off the screen. Then the sound starts stutter (short pauses every +-10sec). Changing audio method to "Android" solves it partially, because when I change it, I can play just one stream. Also the buffer when I start streaming seems strange-very short and always shows buffering 0% and in less than 1sec it starts playing.
Do you have some solution to this? If you would like to have some logs, etc, dont hesitate to ask me.
I am to buy xiia live, but I would like to solve this before purchase.
Thank you in advance