[SOLVED] Airplay crashes frequently since moOde 9.x

[TheOldPresbyope]

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There are some indications that the Airplay problems are related to the hardware. The command "ifconfig" returns some dropped Rx packets on the WLAN interface.
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A few dropped received packets is not uncommon. How many is too many is hard to judge but your 3148 seems high, especially in light of the relatively small number of transmitted and received packets (which suggests your Pi hasn't been up for much time).

In general, dropped WiFi packets are a symptom of such things as network congestion, weak received signal strength, interference from other devices such as microwave ovens, etc.

Here's another command you can try iwconfig

On one of my moOde players I see this output

Code:

rho@m921blue:~ $ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"Krypton"  
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: A8:70:5D:49:74:B9  
         Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=31 dBm  
         Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-29 dBm  
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:126  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Key numbers here are the "Link Quality", where the closer the ratio gets to 70/70 the better, and the (received) "Signal level". My -29 dBm means a very strong signal (the Pi is in the same room as my Access Point). Larger negative numbers mean weaker received signal. 

What do you see on your player?

Regards,
Kent