I'm not sure what other troubleshooting steps to take to enable either one of these Pandora apps to work. The disconnect/crash problem occurs consistently, however, on my mid-2012 MacBook Pro whether on a wired (ethernet) connection or wi-fi.

I don't have issues staying connected to wi-fi as a rule, and another Mac on the same network runs these same apps under Snow Leopard and El Capitan, respectively, with no issues streaming audio while idle/sleeping. Despite reinstalling the OS, the problem remains. I have reinstalled El Cap over the existing install after a lot of effort to troubleshoot, including renewing the DHCP lease, uninstalling my antivirus protection, trashing Power Management, Bluetooth, sharing, wi-fi and system config prefs, turning off file sharing, etc. So I switched back and it works perfectly again. It looks good but the streaming would break every 3 seconds or so. I never had a problem with the streaming until I switched over to the new site. The log cites the main apple thread, another containing the words 'Audio toolbox' and a remote/sharing process. I run Pandora one on my old Ibook G4 Power pc (pre intel) with 1 gig of ram, Mac OS 10.5.8. Each of the stand-alone Pandora apps I've tried has produced the same crashlog results. When I return to the MacBook the System reports that the app has crashed. Shortly thereafter, usually about 7-12 minutes later, the Pandora app will get through the last song in the buffer and cease playback. Everything is fine until I walk away from the computer. Here's what prompts the question: I am attempting to make use of the open-source 'Hermes' and the App Store 'HD Radio for Pandora' to stream music. To slightly rephrase the question, should it be necessary to disable HD sleep in the Energy Saver pane as a means to maintain a live wi-fi connection as the computer becomes idle and enters sleep?

Problem with pandora on mac