Streaming stops after network issue and does not automatically restart

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start playing stream
2. Experience any sort of network issue (change from 3G to WiFi, lose 
connectivity for longer than a few seconds, etc)
3. watch your stream stop and not restart

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The app needs to either by default or by user setting automatically restart the 
selected stream if network connectivity is interrupted and then restored. 
Currently it simply stops, and the user must manually press play to restart the 
stream. Alternatives would be for there to be a user-configurable buffer, so 
that the buffer isn't as likely to be exhausted during network issues.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
version 2.0.2 code 16 on a Sprint HTC Evo running Android 2.3.3

Please provide any additional information below.

For your average user with easy access to their phone, this occasional dropout 
requiring manual restart is mostly annoying, but since my primary use for this 
is to be able to listen to NPR while I am commuting on my motorcycle (with my 
phone in my jacket and gloves on my hands), it makes it a real hassle to use 
the app, since I must pull over, take off my gloves, pull out my phone and 
fumble with it. Then since it takes probably 30 seconds before the audio 
starts, I have to hope that the command took and the stream is actually 
restarting, or risk finding out 30-60 seconds later that I have to do this 
again because it didn't "take" the first time. If this were happening 
consistently at the same spot, I would be fussing at the mobile carrier, but 
there is no rhyme or reason to where the app might drop the stream. I've had it 
happen 3 times in 10 minutes, but also I've gone the entire 45-60 min of my 
commute for days on end without it happening, and I don't see similar issues 
with things like Google Music or Amazon cloud player - on those apps, the 
stream might be interrupted for bit, but it comes back on its own.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wesley.e...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2011 at 5:22

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Would like to look into this and see what we can do.

Original comment by jpenn...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2011 at 4:26

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Original comment by jpenn...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2011 at 5:11

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Original comment by justinfr...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2011 at 5:50

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I experienced a similar issue. Only for NPR app did network connectivity 
changes result in problems reconnecting (e.g. Google Music streams fine and 
survives network switches). At least for me, changing battery settings to 
maximum performance resulted in automatic reconnection attempts. It sometimes 
takes 3-5 min to reconnect, but streaming does eventually resume. 

Original comment by amccampb...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2011 at 10:35

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Original comment by justinfr...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2011 at 4:06

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I'm still experiencing this issue with the 2.2 beta on a Verizon Galaxy Nexus 
running 4.0.2

Original comment by derek.mo...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2012 at 4:05