Comment 29 for bug 790216

A get-around for streaming audio is to use mplayer from the command line.

mplayer is somewhat resilient but can be placed in a bash loop and using tmux there is remote ssh access from anywhere, too.
A restart is necessary if your public ip periodically change or on laptop resume.

while true; do mplayer http://stream.techno.fm/techno.256k.mp3; sleep 5; done