I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions about the following: One of my favorite streams is the Internet feed of The Music Of Your Life at <www.musicofyourlife.com>. This stream uses the Sonic Tuner. I'm running Windows XP Professional, sp2 and the problem occurs whether using Window-Eyes or JAWS.
I warn you in advance that my musical tastes tend to be somewhat retro so if you go over there please don't pick on me too much. <lol> <lol> For several weeks I have been unable to listen to this stream for more than a few minutes without numerous dropouts. Yes, I am familiar with Internet traffic, but this condition is chronic! I do notice that if I go in with the W/E cursor, which seems to give me more info than the JAWS cursor for this stream, the percentage of buffering sometimes rises and falls, and sometimes the music just plain never starts. Once in a while the stream may even play for a few hours but eventually the connection is lost. When it is playing there is often a lot of packet loss, with some songs and commercials either skipping or being almost totally lost. I can switch to another stream that uses Media Player and it plays just fine. I have tried raising buffering time but can't find any way in MP10 to buffer beyond 60 seconds. I used to use a 120 second buffer for difficult streams in earlier versions of WMP. I know they had problems with their stream a few weeks ago but the problems were either over-modulation or garbled sound, kind of like a badly off-tuned A.M. receiver on a crowded band. That's the best I can come up as an explanation. Still, the bad quality streams played. I have written to the Music Of Your Life contact address but this situation has not been addressed so far, though they did thank me when I reported the poor quality reception and let me know when the stream was fixed. I wonder if there is any way I can tweak Media Player to get a better connection. Also, I wonder what some of these values mean that are shown as the stream in Sonic Tuner is launched. "set volume=10", "set volume=20", etc., for example. Is there any adjustment I might make within Sonic Tuner? If anyone has any thoughts please let me know. As always, thanks in advance. Pam _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
