Well, I certainly understand zeefreak's frustration. Let me try providing a little more information though. vlc -vvv alsa://hw:0,0 --sout-shout-mp3 --sout-shout-bitrate='112' --sout-mux-caching=1000 --alsa-caching=1000 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=none,acodec=mp3,ab=112,audio-sync} :std{access=shout,mu...