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Update #2...

I did yet more testing! This time I created a skin with no UI elements other than the play button, so I could easily see if the stream was still playing. In my previous test, I still had the timer counting and the playlist activated.

After several days of letting it play overnight while on, there was NO slow down. I can infer from this that the cause of the slow down is, in fact, the graphics subsystem of Pocket Player. I'm not entirely sure why, but I'm guessing there is some sort of underlying resource leak. But I'm just guessing.

Hopefully I can get some feedback from other users or Conduits on how widespread this problem is.