Amarok radio listening headaches

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:15 +0200, O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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

I've noticed quite a few sound apps and multimedia apps crap out if
Firefox is running. Try without it up and running. See if that helps.
Ric

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