Broadcasts are repeated

[dannytheb]

Hi All,

Please do not think I am nuts when I say this. On occasion, when listening to the Sacramento County Sheriff and City Police feed, the traffic is repeated. An incident or activity that happens at one point in the day is repeated later in the day, both on the same device. Verbatim-word for word. It is uncanny and inexplicable, but it happens. This morning I was listening to a police activity on my laptop and then maybe an hour later it was repeated on my laptop. But this happens on my laptop, desktop and phone. I have only one device connected to the stream at a time, so there is nothing that I am doing that would cause this. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[K9DAK]

Hi Danny... first of all, welcome to RadioReference! Yes, I have experienced the same thing, albeit rarely, listening to my own feed https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/16712 on my PC at work. Clearing the brower's cache (Ctrl-F5 in most browers) seems to fix it. I have not, however, experienced this phenomenon when listening on my iPhone.

 

[richtidd]

There are a couple of things that may cause this:

1 In Windows OS, there's a Line-In properties window and it maybe set to play through two different channels. Shut one channel down and the echo should stop.



2 You maybe listening to the feed via the web or Java player.

If so, the looping or repeating, echo, re buffering or stopping, of the feed is a known bug with the web player & sometimes with WMP and the Java player as well.

What you are hearing is audio that was cached by the browser the last time you listened along with the current feed audio.

To avoid this problem, I listen to feeds with WinAmp or iTunes or an app for mobile or computer.

However, you can try clearing your browser cash.
To clear the Java Plug-in cache:
1.Click Start > Control Panel.
2.Double-click the Java icon in the control panel.
The Java Control Panel appears.
3.Click Settings under Temporary Internet Files.
The Temporary Files Settings dialog box appears.
4.Click Delete Files.
The Delete Temporary Files dialog box appears.
There are three options on this window to clear the cache.
1.Delete Files
2.View Applications
3.View Applets
5.Click OK on Delete Temporary Files window.
Note: This deletes all the Downloaded Applications and Applets from the cache.
6.Click OK on Temporary Files Settings window.
Note: If you want to delete a specific application and applet from the cache, click on View Application and View Applet options respectively.