Hi, Marie, go to preferences with control p, and then from the tree-view, select plugins, and then input, and then tab over to the list, and select the first one, the mp3 encoder, and then tab to the configure button, and press the space bar, upon which you'll be in a tab control, and you should be focused on the general tab, for points of reference, but once you've done that, control shift tab to the streaming tab, and once there, tab to the track bars, the first one, with window-eyes will say 20 of 50, so, press the end key, to put that at 50 of 50, then tab to the next track bar, which should default to 40 of 50, but again, press the end key on the six pack to bring this to 50 of 50, that would be 100 per cent, if you're using jaws, tab to the okay button, and press the space bar, then tab to the close button, and again, press the space bar, and you're done, because, with the buffer as wide as it will go, there is less likelihood of break up with streams. With your 56k connection, just leave the edit box at 64kbps, that is before the track bars, but if you had a slower connection, I would have instructed you to change this to 128, but if you did that, the stream would have taken a long time to buffer. These settings also assume that you're trying to listen to a dial-up stream, because if you try to listen to a stream like broad band, which would be too fast for your connection, that would be another reason why winamp would buffer, because it couldn't fill its' buffer fast enough. Hope this helps you, and if anybody has any corrections to make, please do so, but this is what I do to insure less break ups from streams. On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:58:32 -0700, mimi wrote:
>Hi, Gang. > >I'm having a bit of a problem listening to online broadcasts through Winamp. I have >a dialup connection and the stream often starts and stops when I am listening. Is >there any way to fine-tune Winamp 2.90 so that the breakup would stop? The broadcast >seems to skip as well a little bit. > >When I used to have cable or DSL, I noticed some breakup, but not as severe as this. >So, I'm wondering if maybe some special fine-tuning needs to be done before tuning >into online broadcasts again. Part of the reason I don't have DSL anymore, is many >of the providers tie you to a contract and I just got out of one when I got no >satisfaction from a provider. I find it to be a high speed hheadache when the >technicians will not come out and assist live with a problem. Being without sighted >help I have to wrestle with this alone. > >Any tips on fine-tuning Winamp 2.90 would be appreciated. It is the version I am >most comfortable with as the latest version 5.03 is not screen reader friendly even >with Window-Eyes. There are too many inaccessible features with 5.03, which is why I >took it off my system after getting it back from the shop. > >Mimi > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marty _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
