There are probably ways to get the direct media player address, you can only otherwise do what sonic lets you do.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:06 PM Subject: A Particular Windows Media Stream Is Giving Me Fits! > I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions about the following: > > One of my favorite streams is the Internet feed of The Music Of Your Life > at > <www.musicofyourlife.com>. This stream uses the Sonic Tuner. I'm running > Windows XP Professional, sp2 and the problem occurs whether using > Window-Eyes or JAWS. > > I warn you in advance that my musical tastes tend to be somewhat retro so > if > you go over there please don't pick on me too much. <lol> <lol> > > For several weeks I have been unable to listen to this stream for more > than > a few minutes without numerous dropouts. Yes, I am familiar with Internet > traffic, but this condition is chronic! I do notice that if I go in with > the W/E cursor, which seems to give me more info than the JAWS cursor for > this stream, the percentage of buffering sometimes rises and falls, and > sometimes the music just plain never starts. Once in a while the stream > may > even play for a few hours but eventually the connection is lost. When it > is > playing there is often a lot of packet loss, with some songs and > commercials > either skipping or being almost totally lost. > > I can switch to another stream that uses Media Player and it plays just > fine. > > I have tried raising buffering time but can't find any way in MP10 to > buffer > beyond 60 seconds. I used to use a 120 second buffer for difficult > streams > in earlier versions of WMP. > > I know they had problems with their stream a few weeks ago but the > problems > were either over-modulation or garbled sound, kind of like a badly > off-tuned > A.M. receiver on a crowded band. That's the best I can come up as an > explanation. Still, the bad quality streams played. > > I have written to the Music Of Your Life contact address but this > situation > has not been addressed so far, though they did thank me when I reported > the > poor quality reception and let me know when the stream was fixed. > > I wonder if there is any way I can tweak Media Player to get a better > connection. > > Also, I wonder what some of these values mean that are shown as the stream > in Sonic Tuner is launched. "set volume=10", "set volume=20", etc., for > example. Is there any adjustment I might make within Sonic Tuner? > > If anyone has any thoughts please let me know. > > As always, thanks in advance. > > Pam > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > _______________________________________________ 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] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
