Most MP3-based radio stations will not stream properly and sound corrupted.
I upgraded my workstation yesterday. MP3 streams play fine now. Here's the full report:
JimH recently suggested that it might be related to problems with a VIA chipset. I did some research and apparently there are a lot of known issues with VIA chipsets. My new board is nForce-based. Problems are now gone.
However, my laptop, which still exhibits the problem, is ALi-based. The other machine that had problems with this belongs to a friend and I haven't had a chance to check out what kind of chipset she has.
I think this proves... something. Most importantly, I don't think it's something programmatically wrong with MC although it is something that MC could probably be adjusted to meet although since it isn't a very wide-spread problem, I don't see it as being a high priority.
I'll look into it further for future versions of MC or maybe so I can provide a link to a fix for those still experiencing problems.