I’m a keen listener to somafm.com . Totem seem to default to a 2 seconds buffer which for me sometimes is too small. I like to increase the buffer to prevent annoying glitches now and then. This post show how to do this with gconftool via cli . Personally I like to do this via Gnome configuration editor (Applications -> System tools -> configuration editor), go to apps -> totem and set the ‘network-buffer-threshold’ (it’s set in seconds) ,