URL/Podcast streaming difficulties

[EighthSageScarlet]

Hi, I hope this is the right place to put this! Furthermore, forgive me for packing in a few strongly related questions into one post.

I recently took the plunge to swap from the current Winamp distribution to WACUP (current preview build 1.99.27.21136 64 bit). I am experiencing issues when playing any audio sourced from a web host. This applies to my podcasts fetched from RSS subscriptions that have been registered in my Media Library (which point to URLs of this form
https://chrt.fm/track/C476FE/chrt.fm/track/C35921/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2230576272.mp3?updated=1707495872), as well as ad-hoc hostings fetched via URL with the CTRL+L dialog (ie.
https://dcs-spotify.megaphone.fm/NSR2871946006.mp3). In neither of these cases will playback continue through the whole file, and often stops seemingly at random within the first few minutes. These files never have the standard seeking/scrubbing bar available, and hotkeys to scrub by 5 seconds are ineffectual, though sometimes will make the player jump for the briefest of instants before returning to its undisturbed position.

For further testing, I have compared behaviors to my Winamp installation (5.9.2). The RSS feed URL does not connect at all here, while the direct mp3 URLs play perfectly- without interruption, and with their scrubbing bar!

It would be much appreciated if any of these issues could be addressed!

Machine:
Win10 Home 64 bit
Processor   AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics            3.30 GHz
Installed RAM   8.00 GB
Graphics Card   NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (4 GB), AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (497 MB)
System Type   64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

[dro]

The lack of seekbar on the direct url is because I've not yet implemented http seeking support into my streaming playback support which is why there's no seekbar shown. Comparing to "winamp" isn't fair in this instance as I'm slowly making my own in_mp3 replacement & what the x64 wacup build offers is what I've currently got. Using the x86 wacup build which can re-use the in_mp3 from 5.666 might be better suited for your needs for the time being as the x64 build isn't fully feature comparable to the x86 build. As for playback stopping, I've probably got more to do on how the buffering vs keeping the connection alive needs to work.