<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Everybody,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm having the strangest problem getting WMP 10 to stream from my icecast server.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm currently serving two streams - one is a 128kbit/s mp3 stream, the other is a 32kbit/s mp3 stream</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Even when explicitly declaring the stream type to be http in icecast.xml , the 32kbit/s stream buffers *VERY* slowly (it takes about 3-5 min) in WMP before finally playing. *However* (and this is the weird part), the 128kbit/s stream plays immediately, with no long buffering whatsoever.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>WMP is the only player that has this problem, everything else I've tried (mac and pc iTunes, winamp, etc) works perfectly. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I realize this isn't the Microsoft mailing list, just wondering if anybody has come across this problem and what they did to work around it - I'd really like to avoid having to run Microsoft stream authoring products if I could help it. I wonder if this is a ploy to cripple their player in order to convince people to move to wma :^(</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Michael Hale<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><<A href="mailto:smiley@gift-culture.org">smiley@gift-culture.org</A>></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">gift culture:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.gift-culture.org">http://www.gift-culture.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">initstring:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.initstring.org">http://www.initstring.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">artificial music machine:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com">http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>