Players, which one for streaming audio?

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri May 31, 2002 8:17 pm

What’s the best freeware streaming player you can download? Real Player gives me headaches cos it’s always stops several times… It’s so trying! I would like to be able to listen do the MP3 songs on the music forum, without interruption. I have an ASDL connection at 128 and I know this is enough to be working fine.

Any suggestions or links? I’ve tried Winamp too, of course, but after a while, the programs seems to start giving me short interruptions, similar to those you get pasting little pieces of a wav file, and playing it back. Thanks for you help.

The Z Station · Post by **The Z Station** » Fri May 31, 2002 8:33 pm

Winamp 2.80 is what I use and it hasn't given me any problems. In fact it is my default MP3 player - low overheadt too!

Have you tried Musicmatch 7.x?

I believe you can download that from: http://www.musicmatch.com...

Give that a try - well wishes on your MP3 endeavours!

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 9:33 am

Thank station, I'll chek it out...

ernest@303.nu · Post by **ernest@303.nu** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 10:20 am

OT: Winamp kicks the lama's ass!!!

Nice options for plugins, like wav or mp3 diskwriters, digital audio cd extraction etc... and very good streaming-options, both for playing back or putting your own stream online! (Shoutcast)
I even found this RealAudio-plugin so that I don't need the annoying RealPlayer to play most .ra/ram-streams with the added benefit of using it in combination with the wav/mp3-diskwriter-plugin, so you can save the RA-stream to disk

Saving the RA-stream can often be done at even higher bitrates than your connection allows for, as the Winamp-plugin keeps buffering the stream before writing the buffer to disk. So no bitrate-fallback inducing further degradation of quality....

Now the on topic-part: unlike RealPlayer you select between different Pulsar wave-devices or SoundMapper, and from version 2.79 and higer, 24-bit playback is possible without problems (but don't use the Winamp volume or EQ however, they sound bad on 24 bit)

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 2:19 pm

Well, thanks… I guess I’ll have to stick to Winamp even if I had problems before. Thanks for the explanation.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Mon Jun 03, 2002 7:11 am

Winamp, yes, the last version is great, but still have this little jump now and then. Like a sudden short-circuit and the sound repeats itself in fractions of quarter of second and kips going that way for a little bit. Let’s say there is a phrase like “Hello you there”, well you are going to listen: “Hello y, y, yo, yo ,yo you there”, something like that… What is going on? This would happen every 20 secons average.

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Mon Jun 03, 2002 9:55 am

it must be the max headroom plugin.

seriously you can use a different output driver or change the settings on the one you have.

press control-p on winamp and look at the "output" section of the list to see and configure the plugin.

they have directx and wave and some fading one. the fading one ha been known to cause problems with some people.