As of earlier this afternoon, the station is back up. The upgrade went well, and means that I should be able to do more on my computer without robbing Winamp/Shoutcast of processing power, which results in dropouts or "skipping" in the streams.
For you geeks out there, I have a new MSI motherboard with an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice) processor, a gig of DDR2 RAM, and some other fun stuff like a new case, DVD burner, and new graphics and sound cards.
If anyone wants an inexpensive sound card that really does produce much better quality sound that your motherboard's onboard audio or SoundBlaster cards, check out the Chaintech AV-710. I'm really pleasantly surprised at how much better the computer sounds vs my old Soundblaster (which cost more).
Everything seems pretty stable -- I'll probably have to restart a few more times but hopefully any outages will only last a minutes or two. If you do experience any listening problems please let me know!
thanks,
John
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