Uniti Atom stops when playing album from NAS

[DavidHB]

@Nothung

I suspect that simbun is on the right track here. When problems are intermittent, as this is, the issue is very often with the way network discovery is working on your system. Unfortunately, problems of this kind can be very difficult to diagnose properly, as you are dealing with multiple applications running on multiple devices, all mediated by a router which may or or may not have settings suited to your use case.

If you can identify a router setting for IGMP snooping, you should disable it, but, sadly, many routers either do not have the setting or disguise it under some other name. It also seems that network discovery issues are more likely to occur in wireless rather than Ethernet connected devices, so, if you can run the whole system via Ethernet (which might mean using a control point app on an Ethernet connected PC or Mac), that could be a useful test.

Another, possibly related, point is that, if the problem does not occur on every track change, it could be related to gapless playback from your control point. To implement gapless playback on a standard UPnP system, the control point has to preload the first section of the next track while the previous track is still playing. A network discovery failure at this point would prevent the next track from preloading.

Given the difficulties, experimenting with as many combinations of applications and connections as you can sensibly implement, as you have already started to do, is probably the right way to go.

David