I think this may be an oddcast issue but I'm not sure. I've been streaming for a few days now and I've noticed when listening to the stream that at the change of every song the stream skips ahead slightly. It appears to occur when the metadata for the song title etc is being sent. For me this is a few seconds before the actual change of track since I'm using the SQRSoft crossfader where a new song is loaded well before the audio changes. Is this normal? Perhaps it is due to the occasional buffer underrun I get now & then and the stream wants to catch up? Regards, Ross. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Arc wrote:> You're likely using XMMS, or a player with the same bug.No, Winamp v2.91. I will test oddsocks theory. Ross. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
At 09:49 AM 6/26/2003 +1200, you wrote:>I think this may be an oddcast issue but I'm not sure. >I've been streaming for a few days now and I've noticed when listening to >the stream that at the change of every song the stream skips ahead >slightly. It appears to occur when the metadata for the song title etc is >being sent. For me this is a few seconds before the actual change of >track since I'm using the SQRSoft crossfader where a new song is loaded >well before the audio changes. > >Is this normal? Perhaps it is due to the occasional buffer underrun I get >now & then and the stream wants to catch up? > >Regards, >Ross.this may be an effect of using the SQRSoft crossfader...try disabling it and see if you get the same effect... oddsock <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:49:15AM +1200, Ross Levis wrote:> I think this may be an oddcast issue but I'm not sure. > I've been streaming for a few days now and I've noticed when listening to the stream that at the change of every song the stream skips ahead slightly. It appears to occur when the metadata for the song title etc is being sent. For me this is a few seconds before the actual change of track since I'm using the SQRSoft crossfader where a new song is loaded well before the audio changes. > > Is this normal? Perhaps it is due to the occasional buffer underrun I get now & then and the stream wants to catch up?You're likely using XMMS, or a player with the same bug. It does this skipping, especially with Ogg streams, and especially does so when the track channels/samplerate changes (actually cuts off a fraction of a second from the previous song). Try listening to it with ogg123 if it's Ogg, if it's MP3 its likely a similar bug. Not saying it can't be oddcast, but because songs are buffered in the player I highly doubt it. <p> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: part Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20030625/a70a43a8/part.pgp
oddsock wrote:> this may be an effect of using the SQRSoft crossfader...try disabling it > and see if you get the same effect...It is difficult to test this because the metadata is sent when each track is silent so there is no audible skipping while no sound is present. I had almost resigned to blaming the crossfader when it happened again (without the crossfader). I have a very short station ID of about 1 second and during the quick change of tracks, I did get a skip when listening to the stream. The station ID did not play in it's entirety, even though it did on the source PC. So to me it sounds like it is something to do with the sending of the metadata interfering with the audio data. I don't get this happening when I listen to Virgin Radio, for example, where there is no change in metadata. But they are using Ices I believe so who knows. Ross. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.