tech question

[Clubx-treme]

ok when people try to check out the music it will play for about 10 sec. then rebuffer, which really annoyes them, what is my problem.

[fish]

assuming you're shoutcasting:

buffering can only be solved with a faster connection. the speed of the streaming of the song determines if it has to stop every few seconds to catch up in a sense on the data that it is playing. any connection such as a cable, ISDN, DSL, t1, t3, etc should work fine with sgoutcasting, while anything 56k & under have to stop and rebuffer each time.

[Tom]

To elaborate a little bit on what phisherman said.

The problem is that you are currently sending out more data then what you your listeners can receive. There are a few solutions for this:
Turn down your bitrate. To cater to all the 56K's you may want to consider 24 kbps @ 22 kHz this will allow them to listen to your stream as well as have a little bandwidth left over to surf the net.

A more popular alternative is to offer two streams. One for broadband users and a low bitrate for modem users. Setting this up isn't that difficult. Here is an excellent tutorial to help you out if you decide on this option: http://www.shoutclub.com/help/shoutcast/multi.php3

If you still have problems post a reply and someone should be able to help you out.

Tom

[BLADE27]

Hi All!

I Just Want To Know IF I Can & To Connect To 1 Of SA's Most Popular Radio Stations Namely "5 FM" It Is According To me The Best Radio Station In Capetown & I Can't Connect With Win Media Player Due To A Source Filter Error. BUT I Can't Find 5 FM In The Shoutcast Listings. Please Can Anyone Help?

Regards
BLADE27

By The Way My E-mail Addr Is blade@eagleowl.co.za:igor:

[OzzieSan]

Is there a web page for this station?

Edit: I guess it would be this one? Also update Windows Media Player...

http://www.5fm.co.za/listenlive.asp