How to resume paused mp3 audio streams?

[MarcD]

I often listen to mp3s online (podcasts, internet radio etc.) and I usually download the entire mp3 and then listen to it - but sometimes, usually when I am only interested in parts of the audio and don't want to download it all, I choose to enter the URL for the file into the VLC player and listen to it as a stream

However, when I do that I cannot pause the replay of the file, because 9 times out of 10 when I do that I cannot continue listening afterwards: when I hit the Play/Pause button again to resume listening I ususally hear a couple more seconds of the file that where transmitted before I pressed Pause but then the stream simply aborts as if I had pressed stop. Resuming the stream does work sometimes when the pause was only very short, a couple of seconds or maybe up to half a minute or so. If the stream is interrupted for longer, it usually does not pick up again.

So my question is if it is an inherent, generic limitation of streaming mp3 files that one cannot pause and resume the stream somewhere in the middle of the file or is there some option in the player that would influence this? Or is this some automatic switch-off at the server side where after a stream is interrupted for too long the connection to this specific client is severed and there is nothing I can do about it?

I don't know anything about this stuff but I just don't understand why VLC isn't able to simply reconnect to the URL/file/stream after being paused and resume the transmisssion at the specified time stamp. Why should that be a problem?

[s_ktt]

I am having the same issue and in particular with server side playlists.
My system; win7 64bit

[glennhowardsecure]

I am having the same issue as well. My system is Vista Home Basic.