Transfer sound from Winamp to BBP

Didac,

With regards to your enquiry as a more stable stream player than Winamp, there is not much else out there, there are other media players, such as VLC etc, but they all have their problems. Winamp is really the best of a bad bunch but to be honest it’s a domestic stream player, not designed for 24/7 broadcast use, and most webstreams would not be reliable enough for continuous broadcast use either.

The best method I have come up with for using Winamp is to add your stream address several times to the playlist, save the playlist and put this in the startup directory. Then switch on loop play and shuffle play in Winamp. If the stream underruns or gets disconnected, it will keep trying and trying to reconnect, the rest is down to the reliablilty of the stream itself. There are occasional circumstances where Winamp will freeze so make sure you can get remote acces to the machine as you may need to press stop and start every now and then.
At this time, I do not know of any better software or methods for using a webstream as a feed. If there are any better methods, I’d love to know.

Yorkie.

[quote author=”didac”]Thanks!

I know others software but are more expensive, for example AudioTX is a good choice but you need this software on 2 machines, one for transmit and one for receive.

Thanks to all![/quote]

Yes, there is plenty of software out there for direct linking, either over a private network or the internet, some of which is quite reasonably priced and I use this kind of software in all cases for private links. I only use Winamp where a public webstream is being used as the source.

Yeah, a KS app playing audio generally locks the audio driver so that no other app can play audio. For an audio processor, this doesn’t matter, but for an audio player it does.

///Leif

Thanks, Leif! I keep learning!