walterw wrote: 
> At version 2.1.5 (I believe) Spotty kept jumping from track to track
> without playing anything, but I found somewhere that thing with the
> symlink to spotty-custom and could fix it:
> - spotty-muslhf crashed (Segfault when called from LMS)
> - spotty produces a ticking, scratching sound (see attached mp3)
> - spotty-hf worked!!
> 
> With version 2.2.2 Spotty ceased working completely.
> - spotty-muslhf crashed as before (Segfault when called from LMS)
> - spotty produces the same ticking, scratching sound 
> - spotty-hf quit saying it wanted GLIBC_2.17 or 2.18
> 
> Upgrading my raspberry2 from Wheezy to Jessie brought Spotty-hf back! 
> And I had to try - "spotty" still produces that scratching sound. Why?

TBH: I don't know. But I'm thankful for your posting, as I was about to
drop spotty-hf. I was under the impression that either spotty or
spotty-muslhf would always work...

I don't understand why the behavior should have changed between the two
versions, as by 2.2.2 I basically was back to building like before (in
2.2.0 I used a different tool-chain, trying to cross-compile). 

- spotty-hf is built on Pi3/Jessie, probably relying on the glibc
version of that system.
- therefore I introduced the muslhf variant, which should be "statically
linked", eg. not relying on glibc at all. Built on the same system.
Alas, for whatever reason it fails on some systems.
- spotty is built for an older CPU architecture (armv5), targeting the
many NAS devices out there using those CPUs. In my testing it also was
the only one compatible with Raspberry Pi0/1.

In order to figure out which one to use I the plugin tries to run each
one of them, picking the first which wouldn't crash. Alas, it seems that
the test sometimes would pass, while later on the helper would crash
anyway. Or it crashes on some action which would work perfectly fine
when run from a shell on the same system. Go figure... I'll probably add
some feature to test actual playback with all of them, working around
the need to create a symlink manually.



Michael

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