I have many HTTP variable bitrate ogg streams, I cannot get them played properly with mpd: mpd disconnects after a few secs (ogg variable bitrate streams) or a few minutes (test mp3 contant bitrate stream). They play fine with VLC. USE="aac alsa audiofile flac iconv ipv6 libsamplerate mikmod mp3 ogg unicode vorbis -ao -avahi -icecast -jack -musepack -oss -pulseaudio" Test streams (but it was the same with many others): http://ic5.techno.fm:80/live.ogg http://ic5.techno.fm:80/house.mp3 emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.24.4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24.4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ " LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LINGUAS="fr" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla /usr/portage/local/layman/killwilly" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 audiofile bash-completion bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac gdbm glitz gnutls gstreamer gtk hal iconv idn ipv6 isdnlog jabber javascript jpeg jpeg2k libnotify libsamplerate mad matroska midi mikmod mmap mmx modplug mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection session sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink theora threads tiff truetype unicode vim-syntax vorbis wifi wxwindows x86 xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 none" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
The stream http://ic5.techno.fm:80/live.ogg is tough. Indeed, even mplayer after a (long) while stops playing it with mplayer (network error). It comes down to mpd robustness regarding network cracks.
mpd is not robust to be used for network stream playing... I pushed this issue upstream.
