Bugs we know of.
- RadioStation doesn't check the bit-rate of the files it
streams and will cheerfully stream files of different bit-rates,
which will confuse players that don't support variable-bit-rate
streams (and that's most of them.) The results won't sound pretty.
In the future the server will at least skip files with mismatched
bit-rates.
- Variable-bit-rate MP3 files will not be served properly -- the
server will probably try to push the bits too quickly or too
slowly, since it uses the bitrate of the first MPEG frame to
determine the data rate at which to send out the entire file.
- Non-ascii characters (like accented letters) in the
configuration files will probably, depending on your OS, be
mangled. This may cause problems if the file path to your MP3
files contains such characters. This is due to a deficiency in
Java's property-file parsing code (it always uses the character
set ISO-8859-1). If this affects you, the only workaround I can
suggest is to rename your directories...
Compatibility issues.
- Audion (a
shareware Mac MP3 player) sometimes has trouble keeping its buffer
full and briefly glitches the audio. This seems to happen most
often in the first few seconds of a stream, and occasionally at
the very start of an audio track. This is mostly due to
limitations of the buffering code in Audion 1.5; the upcoming
version 2.0 should have an improved buffer.