Help with streaming audio

[thecristman]

Need some help with my windows Vista system. I usually listen to a couple of different radio stations during the day by clicking on the listen live link in their sites. Another window would open, it would say connecting, then buffering and then start playing. But then yesterday, it just quit working. Now when I click on the listen live link, the same window opens but it immediately says ready and does not play. I dosn't matter which station or website I use, it just will not work. I have tried doing a system restore and there have been no new programs downloaded or changed that could have caused this to happen.

Can anyone give me any ideas as to what to do?

 

[Ronald_Jeremy]

Reformat and install XP SP2.

 

[thecristman]

Reformat and install XP SP2.

So your saying get rid of Vista? I would except that I have a 1Terabyte drive in this machine and 16,000 songs and 300 movies on it and I would hate to have to copy all that and put it back on.

I do however wish it was an XP machine. I have seen nothing in Vista that impresses me.

 

[Ronald_Jeremy]

If you have access to partition magic, break the drive into two partitions. Copy your songs and movies to the secondary partition. Then install XP on the primary partition.

 

[chicagofilms]

I found this on another site, might want to give it a try:

"Vista introduces a new concept to managing your audio settings. Instead of having a collection of fixed settings, such as Line In, Mix, etc., it dynamically updates the volume controls letting you control each application individually. This is a huge benefit, but may be the source of your problem.

To check this, open Control Panel->Hardware and Sound, and leave that window open. Next, launch Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, or whatever application you are using to access the content, and begin playback. While it's supposedly outputting the sound, click "Adjust system volume" from under Sound in that control panel window...you should see a volume control for that application. Try adjusting the bar for that and other running applications, as well as clicking the speaker icons underneath to toggle the sound on and off.

If that doesn't resolve it I would consider missing audio codecs, but check out that one first.
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BTW, I've found it to be a good practice to keep data and the OS on separate drives or if you only have one drive, split it into two partitions. That way you can always re-install the OS without loosing your data. For example, my laptop has a 120GB drive, with the C partition 20GB and the D partition the remaining space.

Another tip is to keep your Outlook PST on the other partition/drive as well. That way you won't loose contacts or email.