Hi Marty, wish I'd known there was something I could do before, lol. We'll be getting DSL Friday, so I won't have to worry about the dial up. Is it still a good idea to set it up that way with 256 by 256 connection? Shawn --- Marty Rimpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] >
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