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VinceC · 04-24-05, 01:50 AM

After a bit of tinkering, I am 100% positive that this problem stems from the crappiness of WMP. Has anyone else experienced problems with WMP and Orb?

I use an 802.11b wireless network when I stream to my PPC.

I streamed Orb to my laptop just fine. I tried it on my wired network, and on my wireless network. It worked.

I attempt to stream the same song on my PPC, and WMP can't handle it. It also doesn't handle most of the di.fm streams very well. All I get is text saying "error", towards the top of the player, where the song title should be. If I try the very same stream, except click the .pls link, then GSPlayer takes over, and within about 1 nanosecond it has the stream buffered, and I never have a problem. When WMP _does_ manage to play a stream, it is broken, crappy, and it constantly has to rebuffer! Has anyone else run in to these issues with WMP?

It really boggles me how MS puts out this software. Same stream, WMP breaks it, a freeware program plays it fabulously.

Has anyone else run in to these streaming/WMP problems when using Orb? If so, how did you solve them?

04-24-05, 01:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
VinceC Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 68 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	After a bit of tinkering, I am 100% positive that this problem stems from the crappiness of WMP. Has anyone else experienced problems with WMP and Orb? I use an 802.11b wireless network when I stream to my PPC. I streamed Orb to my laptop just fine. I tried it on my wired network, and on my wireless network. It worked. I attempt to stream the same song on my PPC, and WMP can't handle it. It also doesn't handle most of the di.fm streams very well. All I get is text saying "error", towards the top of the player, where the song title should be. If I try the very same stream, except click the .pls link, then GSPlayer takes over, and within about 1 nanosecond it has the stream buffered, and I never have a problem. When WMP _does_ manage to play a stream, it is broken, crappy, and it constantly has to rebuffer! Has anyone else run in to these issues with WMP? It really boggles me how MS puts out this software. Same stream, WMP breaks it, a freeware program plays it fabulously. Has anyone else run in to these streaming/WMP problems when using Orb? If so, how did you solve them?