Radio Rebuffering/Connecting annoyance for active window

Question

I don't know if this has been posted before, but if it hasn't maybe a poll could be created to see how the users think about this.
I enjoy listening to the Radio via iTunes. Originally, before I bought my iPod Shuffle, I used Winamp to play my favorite shoutcast stations. I prefer the iTunes interface and that's why I switched to it.
However, there is one major thing that can be quite frustrating. The iTunes window becomes the active window every time the radio station connection needs to rebuffer.
This is annoying since most of the time I'm working on something in another window and then all of a sudden the iTunes window pops up disrupting my work or activities on the computer. I tried switching the window to the mini player but the fact is that it still activates the iTunes window.
I would definately prefer if iTunes could rebuffer in the background (just like Winamp), instead of interrupting the user each time. Maybe I'm not aware that there is a preference allowing this.
In any case, any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You might want to experiment with the buffer size settings as a way to help reduce the frequency of the rebuffering interupptions. The settings are in iTunes Preferences -> Advanced tab. Try each of the possible "Streaming buffer" sizes to see if any of them reduce the frequency.
It will still pop to the front, but if it happens less often...