[SOLVED] moOde 9.0.5 and 9.0.7: Adding radio station to playlist does not work

[TheOldPresbyope]

Aw, rats. I woke up all set to post a brilliant argument on the reasons I thought a poor WiFi connection was unlikely to be the culprit, given the symptoms you describe. Too late, you've already established that for yourself.  

I can't argue with your video but I can't repro your problem either. After adding a dozen radio stations to a new playlist without a single hitch, I quit to eat a late breakfast (and make another pot of coffee).

Time to reduce the test system to a bare minimum: flash moOde to a uSD card rather than a USB-SSD and don't configure any music sources or do any other configuring save, perhaps, setting up a WiFi interface again. If the problem still shows up then we have a real conundrum on our hands.

Regards,
Kent

BTW - the systems I tested on included moOde 9.0.5 on RPi 3A+, RPi 4B, RPi 5B, each connected via either wireless or wired interface to an ISP-provided cable modem/router/access point (Xfinity is the ISP). All Pis boot from either uSD card or USB thumbddrive. My music server is OpenMediaVault running on an Odroid HC1 board. The server and wired Pis are connected to an old Netgear GS108 8-port switch which is connected to the router via powerline networking. Weird, perhaps, but it's what you do with what you got.

Hi Kent,

Here it's 17h00. So, the coffee is over and we're on the wine.

I'm not a fan of WL, but I don't have the patience to make an Eth cable, more specific, putting the wires in the connector.
But... My wife (yes, read again!) my wife loves making Eth cables. She's a nurse... No further questions...  

As we speak, I'm setting up a 3B+ using wireless, close enough to the WL. Actually, in my real life environment, I've a netgear swiitch connected to one of the Eth ports of my WL router.  On the switch I've only audio devices: the 2 moOde instances and a NAS, well basically a PI sharing a SMB share.

Wrt the SSDs: they're from a different brand, and I actually went for SSD as this is much more reliable then µSD. Note that moOde runs here at least 14h a day...

Keep you posted!

We finished off the wine watching the Olympics last night.  

In theory*, perhaps, SSD is more reliable than uSD, but I've never had a uSD card go bad in service (not the same as having sketchy no-brand cards, which I learned to discard out of hand, or clumsily breaking one). The point here is to reduce your system to an absolutely minimum testable product.

I have two moOde players running 24/7, one for headset listening and the other in our sunroom ATM driving a Sonos Move speaker system via BT. That arrangement was to be temporary when we moved here 2+ years ago but I've been slow to pick out a small class-D amp and bookshelf speakers---too many choices!

Regards,
Kent

*In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.