Here is my setup:

I have a virtual Machine network running on VMware 6.0. I have VMs for Shoutcast and Broadcaster Pro PC. I have run in a virtual environment for over 5 years with no issues. My old environment was a Windows 2003 Shoutcast VM and a Windows 7 Pro VM runing MYSQL 5.6 and and older version of Broadcaster Pro. The sound driver was a VM sound driver called HD Audio in VMware and the stream was rock solid.

I wanted to upgrade my Broadcaster VM to the latest Windows 10. My Shoutcast VM has not changed. I loaded MYSQL Community Server 5.7.24 and SAM 2018.10. On the new Windows 10 VM the sound driver is loaded through VMWare Tools and for Windows 10 the sound driver was simply called "audio" and was showing as unsupported, not the HD Audio driver found in Windows 7. Still, SAM did not show any errors and successfully was able to run with this different audio driver.

Now to my problem ... when you listen to the stream either over the Internet, or even on the local LAN, the stream will sound just fine for about 3-4 minutes, and then there will be a regular sound drop out for a split second before the sound will pick back up again. It is not buffering, but a sound gap. This occurs at a regular interval every 10-20 seconds and does not clear up.

I assume that the issue is with the sound driver in VMware Tools, but I have no control over what virtual sound driver gets installed. There is also the possibility that there is something going on within Windows 10 VM that is causing the drop outs and I am missing a setting or configuration.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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DJ VetteRacer
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Have you tried setting the Output Driver to "Silent Output"?

That's how I have it set up on my VPS.

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I have the sound output set correctly. It definitely streams, just has the regular drop-outs.

Update: I will post an update once I confirm the issue has been resolved. I changed the virtual sound driver, forcing Windows 10 to load a different default driver. This seems to have fixed the problem, but I will have to monitor the stream for a while to make sure. If this is the case, then I will be able to provide a "best practices" guide on creating a virtual machine running SAM.

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DJ VetteRacer
Owner/Operator
xStream-Radio - Serious Rock for Music Enthusiasts
www.xStream-Radio.net

I can now confirm my virtual machine setup for Windows 10. You have to go into the vmx file on your virtual machine files folder and manually add some configuration lines to the end of the vmx file. Rather than reinvent the wheel here, I went to this website to get the particular code and also the method needed to edit the file:

http://virtualvillage.cloud/?p=546

Worked great and has been stable.

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DJ VetteRacer
Owner/Operator
xStream-Radio - Serious Rock for Music Enthusiasts
www.xStream-Radio.net