Ripped my library to FLAC level 8 a few months back and created an archive comprised of a WD 120gb drive in an old desktop running winxp pro (yeah yeah, I know) with the drive fully shared.

So far its been great for the most part, and I've been using Winamp/Apollo/Quint to play the tunes (haven't settled on a player yet). However, I've been having a consistent problem across players when streaming the music over a wireless connection, like say to my laptop (tosh p4 2.4ghz 512mb). Wired/ethernet has no problem whatsoever that I've found, but wireless streaming seems to crap out randomly; sometimes it will play without a problem for awhile, other times I won't even be able to start a single song when I open aone of the aforementioned programs.

The network equipment involved includes an SMC 7004AWBR router and an Orinoco Gold adapter (there's more, but this is what's involved here). When I get an error in Apollo I see the following message:

FLAC__FILE_DECODE_SEEKABLE_STREAM_DECODER_ERROR

With some othe bits of message as well. I'm assuming that the problem is one of the following three possibilities:

- FLAC stream not getting enough bandwidth over 802.11b and suffocating on client side
- Some kind of security/firewall item affecting signal integrity
- unstable wireless signal through the SMC router

I don't have problems with anything else on these machines, so the second and third possibilities seem less likely than the first. Does anyone have an idea why I might be having these streaming issues over wireless? Is it a codec problem I'm seeing (it's still beta/1.7 I believe)? If the stream is getting pinched is there a way to regulate it? I've checked the settings in all the players and can't seem to find anything that might settle it out.

I'd appreciate any input folks can offer. I don't really have much knowledge of the underpinnings of streaming media, so I don't where to start a diagnosis.

thanks,
rt

I can see that it has been a year since this was posted without a response. I have been looking for a solution to ( I think ) the same problem. I have a AudioRequest Fusion music server running proprietary software, But it looks like (to the network) as a hard drive. I have been trying to stream the music (playing it on another computer using Winamp and streaming it with the Jetcast DSP plugin) to a couple of PDAs (Toshiba e755s using Pocket Music player in ogg or mp3 streaming).

I get the same error when playing the music with Winamp. It is random and the error on a particular music file can't be repeated. I have assumed that it was an interuption in the music ( data ) stream. I was hoping someone that someone familiar with Winamp could figure a way to reestablish the data stream connection.

Have you found out anything more to resolve the problem?

Kent

Do you use windows XP automatic wireless functionalities? Because it's known to be buggy as hell and proprietary drivers are the best option AFAIK.

No, I am running the FLAC files to Winamp player on a wired network. I may have found some corrupted flac files and have reloaded the specific music files. But it is hit and miss. Some files play better( don'y stop playing ) and some still stop with the "Streaming Error"