Thanks a lot for responding -- and good to know I'm not the only one
with this problem.

I tried thinking very hard what I might have changed in my system setup
before the problem started.  The only relevant things I could come up
with are a Linux kernel upgrade, including an upgrade of the VirtualBox
kernel module.  I'm running OpenSUSE 11.4 on a 64-bit AMD box and have
upgraded the distro kernel from the shipped 2.6.37.6 to 3.3.6 to fix a
USB issue.

Some other observations:

Spotifyd seems to encode the decrypted stream to FLAC.  Theorizing that
my Wifi does not have the bandwidth to stream FLAC through my house, I
tried playing various other FLAC content from my library to various
synchronized players -- without any problem.

I also tried limiting the stream bandwidth of my players in their
respective settings pages.  This recodes my own FLAC content to MP3
using the system's Lame installation.  But in case of the Spotify
content, something strange happens, probably uncovering another bug: It
looks like Spotifyd dutifully decodes the stream to PCM, thinking it
will be reencoded with Lame.  However, this last step does happen: Lame
is not started, and instead it looks like the PCM is streamed to the
clients.

Does any of this ring a bell with you?
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