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[White-Tiger]

A nice usage for this feature was, for example, when you hear a song but don't know the name. So you could pause it and open up a software that could detect it, record it or just call someone who might know that song. So you've got unlimited time to do so and not just a few seconds (mostly 30 seconds but some streams might kill the connection faster)

Why would you want to pause the song in that case, though? Just start the Write to Disk feature - with MP3/AAC streams, it will instantly start recording without reconnecting in 3.7.

actually I don't know the "Write to Disk feature" and I can't find it The only "easy" way I know for recording, is to change the Output device to eg. WAV writer or MP3,OGG,Opus or what ever encoder you've got. It's just complicated as you have to change the output device and change it back over time as well (and you won't hear what you r recording), then play that recorded file to let another software detect the song. But you might still pause it first to not loose "important" parts of that song besides pausing the playback can be done with a single click You might be playing a game or doing something else which you don't want to interrupt yet.

I'm also mostly using OGG Vorbis streams And Opus once it's used by radio stations. So "Write to Disk" might not work for me anyway.

Edit: you mean "File writing" at the Output tab? Haven't tried it yet... but it's still slower and complicated

[saga]

Write to disk can be accessed from the conext menu of any stream playlist entry. Write to disk will still work better than pausing the stream, which will leave you with a snippet of a few seconds of old audio data from the buffer, while write to disk will capture the whole stream from the point you start the diskwriting process. Especially with the "NetBufferOld=<n>" hidden INI setting, diskwriting is the clear winner, because that feature will also write the previously played <n> seconds to disk (obviously this also only works with MP3/AAC streams).

[Dotpitch]

So now I have to live with that feature removed (I call it a feature even though it wasn't implemented as such, but actually the removement is a "feature" which requires more computations) but I know for sure that it will break my neck soon.

On Options and stuff > Miscellaneous, set the streaming Timeout to something like 30 seconds (or more). If you pause a stream and resume it within that time, XMPlay won't flush the buffer.

'Write to disk' is in the track context menu, and is also accessible via the shortcut 'Current track - Write to disk'.