I have good and bad news: the good news is that I have found and fixed
one of the (my) problems. (The bad news is that there is more than one
problem!)

The AlienBBC script mplayer.sh was causing problems because, depending
upon how squeezecenter starts up, the (path to the) mplayer executable
is not found.

On my system (and looking at the script, most likely others too) as it
stands $app is simply left resolved as "mplayer". Its full path is
/usr/local/bin/mplayer. The problem is that /usr/local/bin may, or may
not, be on the path - possibly complicated by it running as user
"squeezecenter" too. This was the explanation for the curious behaviour
where, if I did a squeezecenter restart all of a sudden things seemed to
start working.

I have modified the mplayer.sh script, a copy is attached.

On the basis of very limited testing, this gets me back to this
situation (which probably makes more sense to bpa):
- I can run squeezecenter from the command line or as a background
daemon and the behaviour exhibited is the same;
- the Duet controller/receiver so far works fine playing AlienBBC
streams;
- Softsqueeze starts off alright, but seemingly at random it is still
possible to hit the 'stream not playing' problem as described.

Since my main target was to get the Duet working properly, there will
probably be a pause in my investigations of the softsqueeze problems -
I may get a chance to look at the weekend.


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