I tried 2100 and 4096 (restarted the icecast server after each icecast.xml change) and it still gives the unexpected error message instantly.

I just emailed the current ip to support.

Please feel free to email me at that address if you need additional help or input or what not.  I appreciate you taking the time to look at it.

I sent an email to support with the link

Are you planning to fix that icy-metadata crash when using the ffmpeg engine (as discussed from the last release)?  I tried it again on this version and it still occurs.

Correct. If metadata could be fixed this would work fantastically.

I turned off metadata and it works without buffering like nuts. Unfortunately I really need metadata. Does ffmpeg support that?

I emailed a copy of my log to support with the title 103038-xiialive-beta-v30000 (an extra 0, sorry).  I did it with ffmpeg which failed, then android stable, which worked, on the same url.

I tried that but I get unexpected stop on both ice cast and progressive http mp3 streams.

I'm having the same problem as described in http://support.xiialive.com/topic/77985-buffer-cannot-be-adjusted-for-icecast-streams/  the identical problem where it takes 15 seconds to buffer no matter what.