I've had much the same problem over the past few months since version 6.5. I mostly listen to CBC Radio 2 in the morning. I've chased the stream around in various forms including the http: link from CBC Radio's links page and the mms:// link. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I had this problem when I had SS 6.5 working on my WinXP machine and I have this problem with my new headless linux box.
For the past two or three months I was happily listening to an Ogg Vorbis stream but CBC has pulled that stream and I'm back to trying to chase their Windows Media stream, and it's a day-to-day thing and very frustrating. Here's my setup: SS 6.5 running on Fedora Core 5 D-Link DI-624, firmware 2.76, Static IP addresses SB3 in wireless mode, WPA encryption SB1 connected by ethernet, synced with the SB3 Cable internet connection (Rogers) And here are my results which I find puzzling: 1. SS, of course, works fine streaming my own files (mp3 or flac) 2. I can use my Playlists or Slim Devices Picks to listen to a variety of other radio streams without difficulty. 3. I can listen to the CBC Radio Windows Media streams using Squeezenetwork. 4. I can listen to the CBC Radio Windows Media streams using Windows Media Player or Winamp from either the http:// or the mms:// URLs. 5. But, usually, none of the CBC Radio Windows Media streams will play from SS or from the SB. I've tried connecting from the mms:// addresses (e.g. mms://wm.cbc.ca/cbcr2-toronto), and from the http:// pointers from the CBC webpage (also listed in Slim Devices Picks). When I attempt to play them I get don't get any messages on the SB3. The display suggests it is playing but there is no stream. Occasionally, but not always, I get a display saying "Error decoding WMA: check file types", but usually I just get the little musical note symbol suggesting I'm connected, and if I go to Now Playing it suggests I'm connected. Yesterday, after multiple attempts to link to the CBC 2 stream it mysteriously started to work. Today it won't work at all. And, as noted, the stream always works on Winamp and Windows Media Player. 6. Just for interest's sake, CBC1 on Ogg Vorbis works just fine but the CBC2 Ogg Vorbis stream appears to be dead -- it won't work in Winamp either. I don't know if it's my connection or CBC's problem -- since CBC Customer Relations is an oxymoron they won't respond to my queries. Just to add another bit of data, I did a recent setup of SS with an SB1 for my girlfriend on a Windows machine and CBC WM streams work fine for her. I don't consider the difference in platform relevant since I've had my problems on a Windows machine as well. But all this suggests that there are three differences that could be significant; (1) she has a Motorola router, (2) she has an SB1 instead of an SB3, and (3) she has Videotron instead of Rogers cable internet. Like other posters on this stream I'm prepared to believe that the ISP or the router setup could be involved, but I'm also frustrated that other software can handle these streams just fine but Slimserver and/or Squeezebox cannot. It would seem strange that I need to go and buy a new router or change my ISP to get my SB to handle CBC radio streams when Winamp obviously works fine with them. -- Scardeville ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scardeville's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31359 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
