Amarok radio listening headaches

[O. Sinclair]

Knapp wrote:
> 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.
Hm - that seems to improve things a bit. If I use LastFM I can actually 
get thru a couple of songs but then it gets stuck. I then play a 
"disk-song" and then reconnects and it works for some time again.

Only Last.FM though, Shoutcast etc. still unusable