Re: [Banshee-List] Buffering internet radio

[Roderich Schupp <roderich schupp gmail com>]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Moonbase <moonbase quantentunnel de> wrote:

Same here (Ubuntu studio 14.04; Banshee 2.6.2). Buffer builds up to about
81%, jitters a lot, and slowly decreases to less and less percent until it
craps out.

Banshee uses Gstreamer for all audio stuff (Audacious doesn't).

In order to investigate whether the problem is more on the Gstreamer or on the Banshee side of things, can you try the following:

• install the Ubuntu package gstreamer1.0-tools if necessary
• find out the actual internet radio stream URL; note that most stations don't publish the stream itself, but rather a container URL, e.g. a .pls or .asx playlist; you have to look inside that file to find the stream URL
• open a terminal and run the command
  
        gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=stream-url
  
  
• this should play the stream (for mor diagnostics, run the command with "-v")
  

Cheers, Roderich