jamullian;168402 Wrote: > OK, let's not talk about the fact that Winamp simply tries the next > stream in the list and the next until it finds one it can connect to. > Time elapsed till connect and playing can be as long as 60 seconds, but > once it plays it never drops. I'm currently playing > http://205.188.215.225:8006 but I started by tuning to > http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=3201 >
This station tuned in right away for me, maybe 1 or 2 seconds. To avoid the Shoutcast problems, enter that 205 URL directly in 'Tune In' or you could use a SqueezeNetwork favorite. > > The left hand figure varies from around 6 or 8 or even 9, and plays for > a little while - maybe seconds, maybe minutes, then starts dropping off. > When it reaches 0, the 10.0 to the right of the / starts dropping too, > and the dropouts begin. Once both figures get close to or reach 0.0, > play stops. Sometimes rebuffering starts for a while but typically > stops at around 30-45% and then budges no more. I can't reproduce this > on the same stream as above since I can never connect, but SomaFM > Groove Salad typically behaves as I describe. > Your initial numbers are just what I see too, and the way most mp3 stations operate (sending an initial burst of many seconds of audio). The only things I can think of that would cause the drop-off of audio bandwidth are wireless problems, internet problems, problems with the broadcaster, or an ISP that throttles the traffic. I think there is at least one ISP (in the UK) that does this for certain ports to slow down p2p traffic. -- andyg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31359 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
