I've been trying to troubleshoot a weird intermittent problem with xmms. First, an establishment so as to avoid any assumptions:

1. I know sound works. I've had it where xmms doesn't respond but I can get sound quite nicely from CD.

2. I've used xmms before (usually immediately after reboot).

3. The problem doesn't seem to follow a specific pattern but seems to appear after a few days/weeks of being up.

The Problem: I decide to listen to some streaming audio from a Shoutcast station and while I can see the traffic coming to my machine, xmms doesn't "issue" it forth. It's like nothing is happening. I know it's not a sound specific issue and I have upgraded to the latest release thinking this might solve the problem but unfortunately it hasn't.

Has any other "slackers" run into this?