It seems that within every 20 seconds the shoutcast stream skips (i.e., it pauses audio) for just a split second.

<AOL>Me too !</AOL>

Don't shoutcast streams contain metadata?

Don't think so, I have a stream that is pure MP2, with no metadata and it happens on that too.

I am using version 0.24 as well.
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