Well.. I think I prefer this better. pianobar would play a second, stop, play, stop, very annoying and unlistenable.

This just stops if the network is not fast enough to fill the buffer. I watch gstreamer buffering and it stays at 0%.. not tremendously better but significantly less annoying through my headsets. Only happens in really bad areas too, in the normal areas where before pianobar would have issues its working fine.. so it's at least *somewhat* better with gstreamer. I'm still trying to find ways to control the buffer directly.. gstreamer still seems to be using some of it (you'll see it get up to 50% then back to 0% even though no audio played..) - so I want it to pause, wait for a 100% buffer, and play again.. but haven't quite figured that out just yet.