foobar freezing,advice please

i listen to a radio stream. about a month ago foobar would stop playing after a few hours or so(random). it would still be on "play" but the data stream was lost. now after some hours(random) it will "freeze". i will just hear a low rumble where a sample got stuck. i have tried the latest and stable. i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. to no avail. jriver works fine. i'd rather use foobar. i have tried adjusting the network buffer and processor buffer. it will not let me put the processor buffer over 2000ms. it always did before. not that i should need it above 2000ms. i think somehow something got corrupted that is left behind in the uninstall. or there is a glitch after 1.06 perhaps. if anyone has any idea why this is happening please post.

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thanks for replying. that is not it though. i have 8gb ddr3 and over 6gb is free with foobar and nothing else running. it freezes when nothing else is open. it never did this until recently. i am wondering if there is a corrupt registry entry or something. or perhaps it is the stream itself. maybe they changed something. it is odd for it to get stuck in play dropping the stream without going to stop. it is even more odd for it to get stuck. the application is not frozen just the streaming data. right now i am using 2% system usage. one thing though. it is very hot in here. i wonder if that is messing up the machine but everything else is working fine. jriver is more intensive and has no problem. i am due for a format anyways so hopefully that will solve the problem. i was not going to do it for a couple weeks though.

did that. seems to have worked. thanks. after i went back to foobar i again realised how much better it sounds to me than jriver. glad to have it back. hopefully. btw, foobar is all over the registry. the installer of course does not clean it.

ok, it's fixed. thanks khaos. it only stuttered once while i was using high cpu power. it recovered when the cpu went down. it has been going 32 hours. before it would hang after about 3 to 7 hours.

darnit. started up again. i think it is the stream though and how foobar handles it. on jriver it just stops playing and a bunch of messages pop up that it cannot communicate. with foobar it gets "stuck" in play. repeating one packet over and over until i restart it. it is most likely the stream. foobar and jriver just handle this particular type of dropout differently. i still vastly prefer foobar. on the downside there is very little in the way of stream i am listening to. euro/italo ie. 80's club music. yes, i know i am a lamer ok lol. seriously though if anyone knows a nice high bitrate stream in that genre it would most likely solve my problem. of the few on shoutcast they are either low bitrate or not true to the genre. ie, playing house music.

multiple url's if i can find them is a good idea. it is indeed the stream. 128kbps is not maxing out my connection lol. i don't think they even have dialup anymore haha. 1.1.7 final seems to sound better than beta 6. i am guessing that is placebo though. who knows.

shux! i tried other streams, same thing. so it is my computer. foobar starts "stuttering" after a few hours and jriver stops playing and pops up a bunch of cannot connect to stream messages. this is a pretty high end machine. foobar is using zero precent resources. i hope i do not have to format! any advice would be appreciated. thanks.

yes, pressing play did always fix it. it was like it got stuck in a very short loop. however, i reinstalled the sound card drivers and so good so far! time will tell. there are only hacked drivers for my ancient card on my music server. quite frankly all a radio server needs is a pretty low end machine with a spdif or toslink out that is bit perfect. which mine is. i actually recently bought this machine for $70 lol. if it keeps putting out i'll just go get an atom or something. the big thing is no fan! i used a modern heatsink on this and pulled off the fan. it is not overheating either so thats not the problem. maybe i fixed it. shall see.....

i am at my wits end. this is completely ruining my streaming radio party! i am guessing memory leak, but in two different apps? what i really need to know is, is there a log somewhere i could look at to see what is happening around that time?

or is there some system resources monitor i can run? i mean, not taskmanager. that won't show me what i need to know i don't think. if anyone could offer any further help on this it would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.