Player skips after Intro when playing mp3 stream

I'm having the same problem with our Shoutcast stream, and the solution is always to pause+play after the live stream kicks in, or scrub ahead in the buffer. I'd hate to have our listeners do this, so ideally I'd be able to tell the player to buffer enough audio to start with, then skip ahead 2-3 seconds after the 10-second intro to avoid any stuttering.

What I've done so far, is split our stream so I have one with the intro, and one without. Then I use the JavaScript API to load the stream without intro after a seperate intro plays (and get a COMPLETE state message).

You could (if you always have the same size intro), is use the JavaScript API to watch the progress bar, and after you know the intro has played (10 seconds in your case), then set the position to 13 seconds and start playing there. This would in effect automatically do it for your listeners.

Our intro is unfortunately a requirement, but by $deity, I got it to work! Here's the code I used, although I'm sure it's a bit hacky and can be refined a little:

function monitorIntro(obj) {
player = document.getElementsByName(obj.id)[0];
time = obj.position;
if (time > 9.3 && time < 10) {
player.sendEvent('SEEK',12);
}
};

Only now I'm left with a ModelListener that becomes useless after 9.3 seconds but still gets called every 0.1 seconds, and I can't see a way to disable the ModelListener after it's outlived its usefulness. Ideas?

Sounds like it's time to introduce unSubscribe functionality..

Hi, any known solution to the problem? maybe something new in the new version?

I didn't quite understand the javascript solution, could you post the whole code you used to make it work?... sorry :-)

One last question, how come only a few shoutcasters have this problem?

Jason, I can see in your webpage that you solve the problem... Can you tell me how?

Looks like this has been fixed as of v4.4, with removeListener():

http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/ticket/240

Will have to try it out...

doesnt work 4 me. Its same problem

Hi, I have the same error, I tried to encode the mp3 intro with various options at the same bitrate but it do not works.

I see the solution from Jason but by now to me is not clear, it seems that play one file and then goes to the real stream, but every one needs is to use the server feature, I try to play in Winamp, and Windows Media with no intro skip problem, is only in this flash player. This night I will try with the shoutcast flash player if there is the same.

My production environment: http://lomasbacano.klan1.com/radio/

Some one knows why this happens at all?

I found some...

If you put bufferlength: 0, the player continue with the stram, but in intervals of 1 sec more or less. Than you pause and play and then goes good.

The intro skip is the same of bufferlength and then plays 1 sec. If the bufferlength is more than 0 sec then wont work good with pause and play "trick".

I rip the audio stream with wget command and will see if there is some rare there.

Hello I know this is an old post,but I have the same problem :-( anyone found solution why radio stop after intro is finished ?
I can see Jason from first post fix his issue his radio working just fine after intro

Any help is more than welcome

Cheers

@didi - Can you provide a link to where you are running this?

hello,

I've got the same problem, after the intro the stream just stops, only in winamp it continues to play; but it should run on my website.

@jonasty - Can you provide a link to where you are running this?

sure:
http://stream.habbobeats.nl:8058/
(shoutcast link)
radio:
http://www.habbobeats.nl/beta/radio.php

Where is the JW Player on Either of these links? I cannot help with this, sorry.

this tread is about 'shoutcast' on websites, I didn't know that JW player can run those streamings...
I checked out the help, but can't find a way to enter a shoutcast stream; if I enter the shoutcast ip:port, or with an ASX file, it doesn't seem to work (used the site preview thingy)

thanks

Hi Guys, i got the same problems with several (newer) players, the interesting thing was that older players work well.

It seems the issue is caused by

1) the shoutcast stream itself - it's probably not 100% mpeg compatible when using introfiles or when DJ's change, and
2) Actionscript 3 / AS3 based Flash players. All AS2 based players seem to cope with the stream.

Probably we have to wait for an update of AS3 or Shoutcast to use the full functionailty.

My solution: I switched off the intro in sc_serv and now use a custom made player that has an in-built Intro / Jingle and switches to a continious livestream. Contact: waschtrommel (a) email dot de