JCRAIG  The station uses SAM Broadcaster from Spacial Audio. It seems like when the track changes, FStream tends to get hung up at times, like it will remain in a state of buffering. I've been playing around with the preferences to see if certain settings work better than the others. This station also does live shows, and the stream seems to hang when the DJ goes to talk as well. If I go into the streams menu (top-right button) and click on the stream in the list, it starts playing again. Performance seems to deteriorate after time. This is on a MBP 2.0GHz with 2GB of RAM. I've got a PPC eMac here, I'll see if there's any difference on that machine.

One thing I did notice in a crash report was reference to Application Enhancer. I've since added FStream to the Exclude list in APE.  
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JEDIK  BTW, the Quick Open feature does not accept pasting text with COMMAND+V. Using the contextual menu (CONTROL+click) is fine.  
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APPLE_JULIEN  Again, that work fine on my computer... :(

But I will try to see what sometime this issue become alive ;)

jcraig : okay, after about 5 minutes, I had the connection drop down issue. When the buffer is large, the drop down is slower.

And like you said, thr drop down happen when a new title/artist is send by the server (track change).

But I tried with the old audio engine of FStream and VLC, the same thing happen (in VLC, however, there is not realy a white -like FStream if you turn on the auto-reloading when the buffer drop down- because he upsampling for a little while the stream to get again the right amount of audio data).

I had trace all the Ogg code, he doen't give me one error.

So a conclusion : the server doesn't send enough data amount when he send track informations (normally, the server send a little bit more data -equal to the track len- when a new track is sended, to precisly, no drop down the stream)

Do you have other streams with the same issue ? Is the first time that I see this kind of server...

That I will try : doing the same thing of VLC : upsampling the stream when the amount of data is to low (but it's puttering about ...)  
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JCRAIG  If I listen to that same stream using Whamb (www.whamb.com) I don't get that drop. No output to Console suring the drops either. The ogg stream at http://www.thedividingline.com/listen-high.pls seems to behave a little better, but I've still had the drops after a period of time. That one uses a different broadcasting software. I'm not sure what they use on their server, however their live DJs use Winamp with a plugin for broadcasting.

BTW, the AAC+ stream I listen to works very nicely ;-)  
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APPLE_JULIEN  Damn "the life is not pink" (french expression , I don't know if this one exist in English :D) !

I will see that... pfiiouuuu....  
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APPLE_JULIEN  And what sometime OGG work fine (http://streams.frequence3.net/ogg-112.m3u) and sometime not !? Grmmm  
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JCRAIG  After using for a while, I'm noticing CPU usage going through the roof as the buffer percentage drops, currently at 102.6% CPU with a 35% buffer, this on a MBP 2.0GHz with 2GB of RAM.  
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APPLE_JULIEN  Yes I know this issue. The fault is for FMod : when the buffer is under 99%, he take 100% of the processor. For the moment, the only thing to do, is to switch in pause mode to wait that the buffer go to 99% and switch to play.  
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JEDIK  Interesting... Can't use Flip4Mac, a free QuickTime plugin, to load MMS/WMA streams?

Thanks again for this nice app. =)  
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APPLE_JULIEN  No, I don't use QuickTime for the stream decoding.  
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