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Eliz Watanabe · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

i have a question about winamp using the shoutcast plugin. Has anyone heard of troubles with winamp and the shoutcast plugin recenty? All of a sudden I am unable to stream have been getting compatibility errors with Sonic but I was still able to stream until last night after I applied the latest bunch of upgrade patches from Microsoft. So I upgraded winamp to the latest version and still i'm not able to stream. I even blocked the Sonic stuff out of it when I reinstalled like i read in one place and still no go. Sad

I even took my laptop back to one restore point and still nothing. I am using a pc laptop. I also installed winamp on my new desktop which is also a pc and it doesn't work. Does anyone have any advice?

Toby Lancaster · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 105 Location: UK

This won't help with your Winamp problem, but many people find this program better to use.

http://butt.sourceforge.net/

The are a couple advantages over Winamp:

1. The ability to store details of several streams.

2. The ability to record as you stream, with an "auto-start" feature.

Hope this helps. Smile

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Norris Shepherd · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

Are you able to stream at all, or is it just that the stream breaks up and is inconsistent?

.. my blanket suggestion always seems to be... reboot the router/broadband modem/switch/ etc.., wait 30 seconds, then plug them back in.

Probly won't fix your problem, but it's a cheap and easy thing to try, and it does fix a surprising amount of streaming problems.

Eliz Watanabe · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

Thank you both Toby and Norris for replying to my cry of help. I was really panicking because i have three shows today one of which is a special party and I was not getting any sound whatsoever. I tried unplugging everything and I must have restarted my laptop a thousand times. I finally restored my laptop back to a certain point and restored winamp back a version and bought a $20 cord that goes from my laptop to my little box that connects to my mixer. It seems doing all that worked. But I am going to look into your suggestion too Toby cause that looks like a good way to record myself which I have been wanting to do too. So thank you both, much appreciated.

Distilled1 · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 421 Location: Chicago

After one of the MS updates a few months ago I had this issue it was some type of conflict with the sound card (and I wish I knew what fixed it, But I can't remember I think I had to wait until the next Tuesday update and it was fixed..

you shouldn't need to roll back those MS updates and I bet its not Winamp either I would think the MS update goofed something in the soundcard drivers..

I use winamp and sam 9but prefer win amp, I can set 5 diffrent streams and stream to 5 at once I record running kristal and live, but I am going to look at this soundforge thing an auto start recording would be nice, but what does it record at ???
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Toby Lancaster · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 105 Location: UK

There is a choice of bitrates, from 32k to 320k. Also you can use different bitrates for recording and streaming.

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Blindboy Gumbo · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

a big thnx to toby !!!!...i downloaded the BUTT program last sunday an have been using it for a week now...its so simple an easy to use even i can manage it !! and the ability to record an hear back my gigs in SL...is bloody fantastic....tho also quite shocking !!!!.....thnx to this program ive been tweaking my setup/levels all week to improve my sound....just goes to show...the amount of times ive asked peeps after a gig....hows my levels?? only to be told...yes mate "awesome" "fantastic" "spot on"...pffft....my overall levels have been piss poor and no bugger hears that?..wtf???....so HUGE THNX...to toby for the link to a very cool/userfriendly program...i will probs never use anything else again....huge thumbs up !!!!

Toby Lancaster · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 105 Location: UK

Well, the credit should go to Daniel Noethen who created this excellent application.

In case it's of help to anyone, here's a link to Daniel's site:

http://butt.sourceforge.net/

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