Amarok radio listening headaches

[Knapp]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:48 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kubuntu 8.04.1, KDE 3.5.10, Amarok 1.4.9.1
>
> Every time I try to listen to a Shoutcast or cool-stream radio live the
> same thing happens:
> it retrieves the playlist
> it buffers
> it starts playing
> after a minute or more it stops and the "sound indicator" at the bottom
> of the Amarok window just "flickers" constantly.
>
> I am on a fairly slow connection but listening via various webplayers
> works much better. Anyone have any idea of what I could try to sort this
> out?
>
> Sinclair

I don't know the answer but I have been having problems with Amarok
and those broadcasts too. I have also noticed that there have been a
lot of Amarok updates lately and that the playing is getting better.
For a long time if I changed channels, I needed to play a normal file
first between them to get the new station to work. That seems to be
fixed now but I am not 100% sure of that yet.
-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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