Hi folks, I've been experiencing the same problem that was reported earlier ("it seems to be going very fast"). I'm on Win32 (both NT4 and Win2k) and played around with the script for a while before figuring out a fix. It looks like a: 

BINMODE(SONG);

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fixes all. I also took out the forking-ness of the server, just to simplify the debug process, but I'm sure that's OK. With the fix in place, the code segment now looks like this: 
<text cut>
...
#what song are we playing
        warn( "play song: $song\n");
        
        #open the song, or continue to try another one
        open (SONG, $song) || next;
        
        #### NEW CODE ####

        binmode (SONG);

        #### END NEW CODE ####

        my $read_status = 1;
        my $print_status = 1;
        my $chunk;
....
<end cut>

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I think this fix suggests that somewhere in the MP3's being streamed, read() was encountering what it thought was an EOF, where in fact it was misinterpreting the data. Am I right? (I guessed at binmode, read the cookbook, then understood)

Hope this helps,

Brainiac

In reply to Re: RE(4): MP3 server with IO::Socket by brainiac
in thread MP3 server with IO::Socket by perlmonkey

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