Hi, For now, I converted the m4a's to mp3, and will just use those. I will refrain from using m4a for now.
But it seems this problem should be fixed, so it doesn't crash like that. Brandon On Jan 23, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Audiodef Online wrote: > iTunes isn't the best program for manipulating files. Try ffmpeg > (http://ffmpeg.org/download.html). There are other tools, but I wouldn't > use iTunes for anything other than personal use. Definitely not for > encoding files for a radio station, where reliability and quality make > or break your stream. > > On 01/23/12 18:45, Brandon Olivares wrote: >> Hi, >> >> They are tracks from the iTunes store, if that helps at all. >> >> And like I said, strangely, it doesn't fail until *after* the file was >> played. >> >> But perhaps I will encode them into a specific bitrate, with iTunes, and >> maybe that will help. >> >> On Jan 23, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Audiodef Online wrote: >> >>> If your playlist consistently fails on the same files, but not >>> otherwise, the files are definitely the culprit. Reencode or eliminate >>> them. >>> >>> I thought LS would simply skip over "bad" files, though. Can anyone >>> confirm if that is supposed to happen? >>> >>> On 01/23/12 18:22, Brandon Olivares wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I will do this. It is only three specific files in the playlist that seem >>>> to fail. >>>> On Jan 23, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Audiodef Online wrote: >>>> >>>>> Try this. Keep a log of the files that fail. Create a playlist >>>>> consisting only of these files. If they all fail, then the problem is >>>>> indeed that they are improperly encoded. If LS continues to randomly >>>>> fail, then encoding isn't the problem. >>>>> >>>>> On 01/23/12 18:12, Brandon Olivares wrote: >>>>>> Sorry to keep updating this, but I just found something else. >>>>>> >>>>>> I found several instances in my log file where I get something like this >>>>>> message: >>>>>> >>>>>> 2012/01/23 11:32:05 [decoder:4] Decoding >>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/01_A_Day_Without_Rain.m4a" >>>>>> ended: Faad.Failed. >>>>>> >>>>>> The weird part is that when this happens, that song has already played, >>>>>> and it is a track or two after it. >>>>>> >>>>>> Still no idea what is causing this. Are they somehow encoded improperly? >>>>>> The tracks that are causing this error come from iTunes, and are m4a >>>>>> files. However, sometimes it seems to pass over them without any problem. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Audiodef Online wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Well, that might not be the problem, but spaces in file names is still >>>>>>> an issue for a lot of programs. I think it's worth trying, if only to >>>>>>> help narrow it down. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 01/22/12 16:55, Brandon Olivares wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I will try, but do you really think that is the problem? All of the >>>>>>>> files have spaces in them, and it only arbitrarily fails. In this >>>>>>>> case, it failed on the 7th track. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Brandon >>>>>>>> On Jan 22, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Audiodef Online wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Try taking the spaces out of the file names. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 01/22/12 16:44, Brandon Olivares wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I spoke too soon. It failed, but only after about 40 minutes. I'm >>>>>>>>>> not sure what caused it, as there were not really any errors. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> here are the last several lines of the log. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:32:40 [spiritual_1(dot)pls:4] Remaining: 0.0s, queued: >>>>>>>>>> 30.0s, taking: 30.0s >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:32:40 [spiritual_1(dot)pls:3] Prepared >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Enya/A >>>>>>>>>> Day Without Rain/10 One By One.m4a" (RID 3). >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:4] Trying method "META" for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"... >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:4] Trying method "WAV" for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"... >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.wav:4] Invalid MIME type for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3": audio/mpeg! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.wav:4] Invalid file extension for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:4] Trying method "MIDI" for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"... >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:4] Trying method "FLAC" for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"... >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.flac:4] Invalid MIME type for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3": audio/mpeg! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.flac:4] Invalid file extension for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:4] Trying method "AAC" for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"... >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.aac:4] Invalid MIME type for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3": audio/mpeg! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.aac:4] Invalid file extension for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:4] Trying method "MP4" for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"... >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.mp4:4] Invalid MIME type for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3": audio/mpeg! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.mp4:4] Invalid file extension for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:4] Trying method "OGG" for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"... >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.ogg:4] Invalid MIME type for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3": audio/mpeg! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.ogg:4] Invalid file extension for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:4] Trying method "MP3" for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"... >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder.mp3:4] Libmad recognizes >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3" as MP3 (layer III, 192kbps, 44100Hz, 2 channels). >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [decoder:3] Method "MP3" accepted >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3". >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [metadata.flac:4] Invalid MIME type for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3": audio/mpeg! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [metadata.flac:4] Invalid file extension for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [metadata.mp4:4] Invalid MIME type for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3": audio/mpeg! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [metadata.mp4:4] Invalid file extension for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [metadata.ogg:4] Invalid MIME type for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3": audio/mpeg! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [metadata.ogg:4] Invalid file extension for >>>>>>>>>> "/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual/Compilations/Oceania/2-03 >>>>>>>>>> Headlands.mp3"! >>>>>>>>>> 2012/01/22 11:36:21 [spiritual_1(dot)pls:4] Remaining: 10.0s, >>>>>>>>>> queued: 0.0s, adding: 30.0s (RID 5) >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Jan 21, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Audiodef Online wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> The output might help people figure out what's going on. You should >>>>>>>>>>> be >>>>>>>>>>> able to open the log file with a text editor so you can copy and >>>>>>>>>>> paste >>>>>>>>>>> the relevant section here. Also, if you haven't done so already, >>>>>>>>>>> set the >>>>>>>>>>> log level to 4, which provides more information than the default. >>>>>>>>>>> You >>>>>>>>>>> can do this by putting >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> set("log.level",4) >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> near the beginning of your script and restarting the script. I also >>>>>>>>>>> prefer to set my own log file path so I always know where to find >>>>>>>>>>> it. >>>>>>>>>>> You can put this in your script with >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> set("log.file.path","/dir/anotherdir/maybeanotherone/liquidradio.log") >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I usually put it in my user's home dir for convenience. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On 01/21/12 08:37, Brandon Olivares wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I'm having another problem. I finally got it installed, but now it >>>>>>>>>>>> randomly fails. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I am streaming it through Icecast. So I pointed it to a directory >>>>>>>>>>>> to randomly choose files, which is working. But sometimes at the >>>>>>>>>>>> end of songs, it completely fails and outputs a bunch of >>>>>>>>>>>> information about different libraries. I can't paste the error >>>>>>>>>>>> here as it spans the more than the entire page of the terminal >>>>>>>>>>>> window. >>>>>>>>>>>> If your playlist consistently fails on the same files, but not >>>>>>>>>>>> otherwise, the files are definitely the culprit. Reencode or >>>>>>>>>>>> eliminate >>>>>>>>>>>> them! >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Here is my script I'm using to test: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> #!/usr/local/bin/liquidsoap >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> s = >>>>>>>>>>>> mksafe(playlist('/home/azavia/radio.christs-light-ministries.org/music/Spiritual')) >>>>>>>>>>>> output.icecast(mount = 'radio', password = '***', %mp3(bitrate = >>>>>>>>>>>> 96), s) >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I am so close; I just want to get this started and working. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>>>>>> Brandon >>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>>>>>>>> Try before you buy = See our experts in action! >>>>>>>>>>>> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft >>>>>>>>>>>> developers >>>>>>>>>>>> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, >>>>>>>>>>>> MVC3, >>>>>>>>>>>> Metro Style Apps, more. 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