Why is playback choppy for some Internet radio streams?
There was a bug in versions of the plug-in below 2.5 that was writing many undersized packets of audio data to the remote speakers when playing Internet radio streams. This has been corrected so that full-sized packets are written even when playing back streams. In addition, the default streaming buffer settings for the MPEG stream decoder (in Winamp at least) don’t call for prebuffering very much data before starting playback. This quite often leads to buffer underruns. Setting the Streaming Prebuffer to be at least 50% initially and 25% after an underrun — as can be seen in the screenshot to the right — can significantly reduce (or eliminate) the amount of skips. If you continue to hear skips frequently when playing Internat radio streams through your remote speakers, try increasing the Streaming Prebuffer. Also try increasing the Streaming Data Buffer setting.
