Carterlake, I see your bitrate is 32, if you're concerned about bandwidth, couldn't you drop that down to 16?
As an aside, I thought I'd try a bitrate of 8 to cut bandwidth, it sounded like crap...
I too ended up using the Emerson radio from Walmart...
Some times oddcast shows up to 10% or so cpu, then will drop down to 2-3%...