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Scratching our own itches has often been the starting point for our apps.Ĭustomer feedback has led to the much of the stable of Rogue Amoeba products. He made it to scratch his own itch - he wanted an app which did what StripAmp did, so he made it. When I stepped in we polished the app up together, but Alex gets all credit for the application idea itself, as he made it before we even met. It was a tiny app which sat in the Control Strip the what?!
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It was a software remote control for one of the first MP3 players, MacAmp. He was amenable, and we started a tiny company called PK Industries the domain is now owned by a janitorial company who kept our color scheme to sell the app. Well, back in the late 90s taking payments online was a bit tougher, particularly if you lived in Russia as Alex did. That author was the aforementioned Alex Lagutin. I wrote a positive review of the product, and before it was published, I contacted the author to suggest he should charge a few bucks for it, rather than giving it away. I stumbled on a small tool called StripAmp. Back in the late 90s, my friend Misha Sakellaropoulo got me set up writing software reviews for MacNN. I'm not selling or promoting anything, just trying to help you out.It all started with writing, actually. PS - Not real sure why Centova pulled my original post. I'm sure that this is what is causing you to get dumped at speeds of 128 - 256 kbps. Also a high latency (over 100 ms) will cause the signal to 'drop and re-buffer'. The lower the latency, the better the signal and less buffering you will have. If you are in the US, find a host in the US. So, bottom line, is you should find a Stream Host that is closer to your PC. At higher speeds like 128 kbps and above, you should keep it under 100 ms to avoid buffering. The lower the latency (ping time) the better the signal and less buffering. Going from the US to Europe is (don't quote me) usually about 170 ms from West Coast US and about 90 ms from the East Coast US. So, it takes about 1/4 of a second to receive your signal, worst case and about 1/8 of a second best case. However, the average time is 114.8 ms and the worst is 257.8 ms at the Stream Host end. But there is a 1% loss at the final hop, not real bad. You sent 211 packets and your Stream Host received 210 packets, which is good. Thanks much in advance for the assistance! Anyone have any idea what the issue might be? I’ll reiterate that I did in fact stream successfully from this location using this gear in this configuration for the better part of a year. I have no idea what else I can or should change.
I tried these things which had no effect:
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I never lose connection to the server, it doesn't shut down, but the stream is full of glitches and errors. Usually after that, I’ll hear some streamed audio that skips forward, sort of like scanning a digital file, interruptions in the audio, etc. With the second host, I haven’t had any server shutdowns, but instead will stream successfully for 10 to 30 minutes, then start getting intermittent ‘blinks’ of AutoDJ content.
I tried mono vs stereo, never could get a stable stream going, tech support could only tell me the problem was ‘on my end’, and I eventually decided to switch hosts.
I couldn’t find the source of this alleged data doubling.
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I first experienced a series of server shut-downs - the host told me I was ‘over streaming’, 256 kbps to a 128 kbps account. The modem feeds a wireless router (and I’ve tried 2, a Linksys EA7500 v2 and an Apple AirPort Extreme). We have a Comcast cable modem with d/l speeds of over 100 mbps and upload of around 12 mbps.
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I’m on Mac OS and have been using Nicecast (later trying Ladiocast). I’ve recently tried to launch a new streaming project, so I purchased precisely the same streaming product I’d had before, with the same host, same gear, only this time, intermittent issues have plagued me from the start. I was involved in a streaming project that operated with CentovaCast software (Icecast 2) for about 7 months with no issues, for whatever that’s worth. A little background, I have a lot of audio engineering experience, and a little audio streaming experience.