[Icecast] BUFFERING

[Richard Bartholomew]

Hi,

 

I've just installed V2.4.4 onto Debian 10 with a primary and fallback
mountpoint with default settings and am experiencing the following.

 

Primary mountpoint is set up for live streaming from Station Playlist and
the fallback mountpoint plays an mp3 file.

 

If I connect to the stream using Winamp, I hear the mp3 file start playing
within two seconds.  If I then connect via Station Playlist (SPL), it takes
around 40 seconds for the mp3 file to stop and the live stream to be heard.
The same is true if I then disconnect the live stream and the fallback file
starts playing.

 

However, if I stop and start Winamp playing as soon as I connect via SPL or
disconnect so that the mp3 fallback file plays, I hear the appropriate
stream straightaway!

 

I assume that the delay is being caused due to buffering but is there a way
of reducing the buffering, please, so that if someone is listening via a
media player like Winamp, they hear the current stream quicker than the 40
seconds delay I'm presently experiencing?

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I hope the above explanation was
clear enough.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Richard Bartholomew

 

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