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Adjusting buffer for radio streams

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I was wondering if there is a setting somewhere that I could increase the buffer for the radio streaming. Once in a while the default setting is little short, so I get pauses in my playback.

Thanks.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Install xmms for direct control over various streaming plugins...It will let you adjust the buffer size, and doesn't bother with the song notification, therefore letting you to listen to your internet radio all day long. It can be installed by executing sudo apt-get install xmms from a terminal..
Cheers,
Bhavani Shankar.

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Hil (sargenthp) said : 		#2

XMMS works until I run out of memory. It has a memory leak some where. Things like that is why Linux will not be a mainstream desktop. We need to make things run better than MS's crap... Which shouldn't be that hard to do.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

Paste output of sudo fdisk -l (small L), Normally your swap partition should be double the size of your physical memory to ensure better running of apps under linux.. I think your swap partition is small.. and in linux when system runs out of memory it kills appliocations randoomly for execution of other programs...
Bhavani Shankar.

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Hil (sargenthp) said : 		#4

fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4660 37431418+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4661 4865 1646662+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4661 4865 1646631 82 Linux swap / Solaris

From /proc/meminfo:
MemTotal: 767552 kB
SwapTotal: 1646620 kB

I have plenty of memory, especially to just stream music. Running xmms after while you can just watch the system monitor and watch it taking about 600k every few seconds. It was hogging over well over 1GB of memory and the system was pretty much locked up. That is why I am trying to get Rhythmbox to work. But it has issues pausing, stopping all together, or refusing to connect to the stream. Fire up XMMS and it connects right up. I prefer XMMS, but need to restart it every 4 hours to reclaim my memory.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#5

Ok anyway it works fine with xmms right? you recieve continous streams for 4hrs right?

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Hil (sargenthp) said : 		#6

Yes. But the memory leak is not acceptable. Big 'ol security hole right there.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#7

well.. thats a known bug in XMMS.. in edgy as well as feisty.. Take a look at the related bugs link here and leave a comment on the bug page so that bug will be triaged soon...

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Hil (sargenthp) said : 		#8

Could you please resend the link? It didn't come through. Thanks.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#9

Please have a look at Related bugs section in this question...

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Hil (sargenthp) said : 		#10

Found a player that looks like and works like XMMS, but uses today's streaming libraries, called Beep Music Player(BMP); also known as Audacious in Fedora. I will test this player out and see if it shows any memory leaking or has any other issues.

So far I like it.

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Hil (sargenthp) said : 		#11

Update... Audacious is actually a spin off. This one works even more like XMMS.

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Hil (sargenthp) said : 		#12

Audacious got disconnected last night and must have started taking memory. It was taking over 650MB of RAM.

BMP got disconnected as well, but stayed at the 128MB it was using since I started it yesterday morning. I think I found my player (at least for now)!

Just an FYI: I believe the reason for the disconnections was due to the storms we had last night.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#13

Yup man.. Thanks for the info....

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tcpotters (tcpotters) said : 		#14

I am a visual artist that does not understand computer speak. I am running pandora radio and like it very much. I was wondering if there was a way to configure my computer to handle Pandora or do I have to switch to another company? That would suck as I have paid for a year membership. I only recently had Unbutu installed on this system after getting virus after virus on my windows operating system. Please help the village idiot.