Windows Media Player (and Winamp and probably most other mp3 stream
players) buffer things.  Ie, to make it more resiliant to network
hiccups, it will try to keep the next few seconds of the song: there is
a setting in Winamp to control this, I would assume WMP would have a
similar one.

A much better solution is to use Softsqueeze: it's under 'Help' on the
Slimserver web page.  This is a Java emulator of the Squeezebox.  It
doesn't use the 'stream.mp3' method, but uses the same protocols that a
real squeezebox uses.

It does buffer (it has to ... there's nothing wrong with buffering
since it does protect against short network problems), but it also
recognizes the SlimProto, "Hey, I changed tracks, throw away your
buffer and switch to this."


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