Executive Summary: Winamp (v5.32 basic)has no problem playing Shoutcast Internet radio streams on my system; Slimserver hardly ever manages a connection (although it does OK on Alien BBC, for example).
The full story: I have been lurking and reading other people's threads on similar issues here for months; I'm the kind of guy who tries everything he can think of and more himself before asking others. I have SlimServer running on Win XP2 (have tried it on 2 different machines) and an SB3. SlimServer has no problems streaming mp3s from my computer to the SB3, works great. However, when I try to use Slim to connect to even the most obvious of Shoutcast stations, such as SomaFM or Digitally Imported, at best it connects for a few seconds or maybe minute or two before the buffer exhausts and rebuffering never works. I have been downloading nightly updates of 6.5.1 for months in the hope that it might get solved, but it never does. Here's some of what I've tried: - Increasing the buffer size, all the way up to 30 seconds, in stages - Increasing the timeout, up to 60 seconds - Uninstalling SlimServer and reinstalling (but note that I see the same issue on two machines) - Deleting the cache - Disabling anti-virus scanning There are a number of ways in which the issue can arise - most often the stream never starts (with an Error no items found in playlist showing on the SB3) or at best it plays for a few seconds or minutes, runs out of buffer and does not rebuffer. My current settings are 20 secs on radio station buffer and 45 secs on radio station timeout. The important thing to note here is that Winamp (plain vanilla default install) never has a problem, never drops or jitters. I am very disappointed, I bought the SB3 in major part to listen to Internet radio. BTW, FWIW, Alien BBC works fine, but the Sirius plug-in gets as far as showing the track info but never plays the music. The only "unusual" thing about my setup is that I'm on a satellite broadband connection, with typical d/l speeds of 2Mb (plenty of bandwidth) and 150-400kb up. Problem (insoluble, due to laws of physics and where I live) is the latency, which is between 800 and 1200ms. BUT I would have thought that the buffer and timeout would take care of this - and again, Winamp never has a problem. I'm not trying to laud Winamp here - I'm trying to get SlimServer to work. But worst case scenario might there be a way to capture and send the Winamp audio to the SB3? All suggestions will be read with interest. Any useful ones will be rewarded with praise and acknowledgment! SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11099 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 Server IP address: 192.168.0.100 Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt -- jamullian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jamullian's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9452 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31359 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
