mpg123 fails playing icecast streams

Binary package hint: mpg123

1) Ubuntu Release Information:
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

2) Package Version:
mpg123:
  Installed: 1.4.3-3
  Candidate: 1.4.3-3

3) I expected to play a streaming icecast server through Asterisk which failed. I tested and narrowed the problem down to the version of mpg123 currently in stable.

4) Using the command "mpg123 -s http://twit.am/listen > test.mp3" I got the following output:

---------------------------------------------BEGIN OUTPUT--------------------------------------------
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
 version 1.4.3; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
 free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes

Directory: http://twit.am/
Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: listen ...
ICY-NAME: TWiT After Hours (Pre-recorded)
ICY-URL: http://twit.am/listen
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 64 kbit/s, 44100 Hz mono

ICY-META: StreamTitle='1918-11-11_WINSTONCHURCHILL_00 - Winston Churchill';
Note: Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0xcbb47d34 at offset 0x30ae.
[parse.c:657] error: not attempting to resync...
[mpg123.c:571] error: ...in decoding next frame: Lost track in the bytestream and did not attempt resync. (code 27)

[0:01] Decoding of listen finished.
---------------------------------------------END OUTPUT--------------------------------------------

This seems to be a known and fixed problem, see the news archive at http://www.mpg123.org/cgi-bin/news.cgi regarding both "resync is enabled again for ICY streams (the trouble in the past was due to a reader bug, not the streams)" and "workaround for frames that fail decoding (bad frame body, missing bit reservoir): fill up with silence"