Shoutcast: WTF?

[johnjohn320]

OK, I'm on a 56k cause broadband still isn't offered in my area...urgh...anyway, I'm trying to listen to some stations on shoutcast, so I told it to only list ones for 56k modem and below. However, even when listening to stations that are broadcasting at say, 24 kpbs, 22kHz, and 1/4 capacity, it stops and friggin buffers every three seconds (no, not literally, but more than once every 60 seconds, enough that when listening to a talk show I don't know what's being discussed). What's the deal with this?

 

[LiekOMG]

I once had a similar problem to this... i'm on DSL and even the crappiest quality station would skip. I didn't know why. turns out I was using some strange sound decoder in winamp (that i read about here on the forums and was trying out) that was screwing things up. Switching back to winamps default decoder fixed it.

 

[johnjohn320]

Hmm, I'm not sure what 'sound decoder' you speak of, where I can I find it in Winamp's options, and what's the default one I need to change to (if this is the case at all)? Thanks.

 

[Kadarin]

You may also wish to verify that your bandwidth isn't being used by some other application (i.e. some filesharing app, your web browser, or even spyware).