forward xmms streams

linuxhippy · 08-05-2006, 07:45 AM

I use xmms for audio streams. How would I fast forward through a 1 hour stream? I figure I need to enable xmms to cache...but how?

raska · 08-05-2006, 09:17 AM

I'm not sure, but as I understand the audio streaming concept, what you listen is what is being put online, pretty much like a radio transmission. So I don't think that you could fast forward a stream on xmms nor other program, as you can't fast forward a radio transmission.

As I said, I'm not sure about this, probably someone else could confirm it or deny it properly.

vharishankar · 08-05-2006, 09:27 AM

I think he's asking about pre-caching streaming audio so as to avoid jerky playback. Is that right?

linuxhippy · 08-05-2006, 10:17 AM

pre-caching streams is right. I'm listening to streaming mp3 files...not radio transmitted streams. My server streams mp3s-at work I use Itunes to listen to my server in my house and it makes the streams fast-fowardable after a couple of minutes. I would think it downloads the file to a cache...how do I do this with XMMS?