New stream feedback

[Nealandbob]

Just so you know, the new stream is working flawlessly for me through iTunes Even during a 20 or so person Hollow Island raid today (though, to be fair, I never really had problems raiding with Winamp either).

The switch couldn't have come at a better time for me, as I had just bought an iPod and was concerned Winamp would conflict with iTunes.

GSP rocks!

*edit* OH, and I forgot......I run a hardware firewall, and several software firewalls, and didn't need to use the Port 80 option either.

[Mummu]

not for me unfortunatly.
its a rather weird behaviour though, seems like the new stream is more prone to bandwith shortcomings. with the live365 stream I ould reserve more bandwidth to downloads without it starting to buffer. is the new one sreaming with more kbps?

[Rehab]

i cant get it to work as none of the comps at my boarding school have realplayer or winamp etc but websense has blocked use of .asx files i even tried the port 80 one and no luck

[Tarryk]

I'm not sure on the bandwidth question, it may use slightly more, but not by any noticable amount. It's still the same 64k Stereo stream that it was through live365 (although I have been told many times that it sounds as though the quality is better)

i cant get it to work as none of the comps at my boarding school have realplayer or winamp etc but websense has blocked use of .asx files i even tried the port 80 one and no luck

I'm not 100% positive, but shouldn't windows media player use the .pls file just fine?

[Rehab]

hmmm strange cus if windows does play .pls files then the version we have here is pretty old and the file comes up as one with a orange exclamation mark i guess ill have to wait till i can get my own comp here *sigh* that will probably take awhile as my dad doesnt like spending money

[Boinky]

Will have to get back to you about trying the port 80 thing here from work as I've not done it yet. At home though I still can get a few gaps in the stream sometimes when aparently others may not be getting them, but that might just be my connection as I have seen that just in my internet access too at times. Apart from that, one thing is that if I leave winamp running on the 'puter at night on the stream it's usually still there tuned in the next morning. Through the old Live365 thingee if I left it the night it was almost always disconnected. Just a nice thing if you are actually listening to it and don't have to rconnect as many times.