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Buffering

Added by John Jason Jordan over 10 years ago

I have Audacious 3.4.2 on my desktop computer running Xubuntu 12.04, installed with the PPA. My laptop has Xubuntu 13.10 and Audacious 3.4. In both cases the maximum I can set the buffer to is 10,000 ms. (10 seconds). This is nowhere near enough for my favorite station because they have limited bandwidth, as they are supported by donations. Even with the buffer set to 10 seconds I can seldom get the station to play for more than half an hour without cutting out and having to be restarted.

The station in question is AllClassical.org and the stream is http://allclassical-ice.streamguys.com/ac96k.m3u. You have to use wget to make an m3u. (Thanks John Lindgren for figuring that out for me.)

Is there any way to increase the buffer time? Or is there something else that might be causing this station to cut out so much?


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RE: Buffering - Added by John Lindgren over 10 years ago

Buffer underflow won't cause the stream to stop completely; it will just cause the audio to cut out momentarily until more data is available. You could use Wireshark to see exactly what is going wrong, but it's my guess that the TCP connection is going dead for some reason (maybe an overloaded server).

As a workaround, of course, you could just put the stream on repeat so that it restarts automatically. :)

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