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Seems I'm not very clear about this :) I'm a programmer after all, although I'm not associated with VLC in any way, only as a user :D The thing is, that VLC player grabs the list of icecast stream from this url: http://dir.xiph.org/yp.xml. By "manually downloading" I meant copying this add...

After investigating bit more, it seems that the problem is not in VLC player itself, but rather on the icecast site... When I tried to download the stream directory manually few times, it sometimes works and sometimes fails. It might be due to errors or overload on the icecast servers, in which case...

Thanks for responding dolik.rce. My apologies for getting back to you so late. As I'm new to VLC (and not a programmer) I can't really tell much from your kind response. Seems like communication errors to me. Has this been an on-going problem with the player in previous versions? If you or anyone e...

Same problem here... It is about 50% chance that the icecast loads correctly. Here is output from console, if it helps to identify the problem: $ vlc VLC media player 2.1.0 Rincewind (revision 2.1.0-0-gedd8835) [0x86332b0] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection re...