Stuck on 'Loading first track'

Connection with external Audio Devices Streamers
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Hi I’ve just paid for a year’s licence with Audirvana - I had it all set up with Tidal streaming (Moode - Pi2AES) and it was playing fine and now suddenly it is stuck on ‘Loading first track’ and absolutely nothing shifts this - reinstalled Audirvana; removed Tidal streaming link and relinked it; messed about with all the settings that I’ve read might help from other posters with the same problem but nada.

Same problem from the iOS Audirvana app if I play from there.

I’m running MacOS Big Sur 11.2.3

Can someone help?

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Check if the firewall is enabled. Just to confirm that this is causing the issue, disable it temporarily.

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Thanks - firewall didn’t change anything but mysteriously I had also lost airplay connectivity (i.e., direct from the Mac to the Pi2AES) and restarting my Pi2AES seemed to remedy everything.