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An in-depth study of man mplayer revealed the -idle switch that keeps it live when the bitstream fails, and allows it to pick up again after the interruption. Stand to reason that someone would've thought about that. Works a dream.

Thanks for your thoughts. The situation is that this is a backup feed to an FM transmitter. The main route uses a microwave link carrying 16-bit audio, which sometimes fails for the most absurd reasons, and having a decent backup will ease our "dead air" dialogue with OfCOM. AB

I need to create a reliable audio stream, listening to a website across the internet. The simplest way seems to be the most obvious: just run a web client, and click on the appropriate link. However, with Firefox, and possibly other clients, a temporary break in the bitstream leads to complete...