Thank you both of you.

Now I know what I have to do.

Sorry, but I' m back to this...

Making the last change it seems that cause problems to ANSI strings.
So how can recognize if a stream use UTF-8 or ANSI to make the proper "translation"?

Thank you very much!!!
Problem solved. 

With my program I see this:


while the same time AIMP3 displays that:


What I'm doing wrong? 

I don't think that is a vb.net related issue.

For some streams like this http://streamingpulse.eu:8032/stream the tags that I get are very strange and unreadable.
I suppose that this has to do with character encoding. Please how can I fix it?

Thank you in advance.

@3delite:
Thank you but unfortunately "file.exists(...) = true" for all occasions. 

I found the reason of my problem.
It seems that BASS_SFX plugin doesn't work when the .svp file's address has greek characters.

@3delite:
Thank you but unfortunately "file.exists(...) = true" for all occasions. 

I have a problem with bass_sfx.
The command:

hSFX = BASS_SFX_PluginCreate(Application.StartupPath & "\Visualizations\" & My.Settings.Visualizations, m_oVisPanel.Handle, m_oVisPanel.Width, m_oVisPanel.Height, 0)

At compiling returns hSFX=1 and everything is OK
Running exe from "bin/release" folder of vb.net returns hSFX=1 and everything is OK
If I copy the whole folder to any other directory returns hSFX=-1 and the m_oVisPanel is black!

Can anyone help me please?

1. No, I didn't enable a read timeout via the BASS_CONFIG_NET_READTIMEOUT option.
2. Yes, in WMA case the stream is immediately resuming when my PC goes online again.
I'm very confused 

I'll try your suggestion about BASS_SYNC_DOWNLOAD. Thank you.

I'm trying to make a radio player with vb.net.
When I stop the Internet connection, WMA radios go to a "stalled" state for some seconds and then they stop.
MP3 radios go to "stopped" state immediately so they can't reconnect if my PC is on-line again.

How I could make MP3 radio streams act just like WMA radio streams?
Thank you in advance.