[grc] Trouble with Winamp

[Ellen Stewart]

We are a new LPFM located in Sonora California. We have been streaming for the past several months, as well as broadcasting since January 29. We are using Winamp and have experienced fairly continuous problems with freezing and garbling and speeding up. We are in the station for several hours in the weekday mornings and most evenings. Often, when programmers arrive, Winamp is frozen. We usually can reboot and get it started, but it seems to be freezing more and more often and at present, will not allow CDs and the mic to play through it.

Do we need to abandon Winamp for a more stable system? What system would that be? Is Rivendell a good option? What are the pluses and minuses?

Naturally, we are a very low budget operation and just as we are readying a campaign for underwriters, Winamp is becoming less stable, making sales pitches pretty difficult.

Any words of advice are greatly appreciated.

Thanks -

Ellen Stewart
KAAD-LP.org <http://kaad-lp.org/>