Changing the bitrate on my helped to make AlienBBC work on my SlimP3,
but now normal music on my system (MP3's) struggle to play properly.
They pause regularly (usually once or twice within a song) and have to
re buffer themselves to catch up.
Could someone tell me what the line used to be so
If you only changes the line RTSP MP3 - it will only afect RTSP formats
and not any other format MP3 - so yor MP3 problem is coincidental and
unrelated.
You should check whether you made other changes to your system and not
just the RTSP one.
You can disable a plugin from settings and rebbot to
Thanks for that.
I restored the original file (noticed that I made a backup before
changes) and the MP3 pausing is still there. I'd better start another
thread for that.
Thanks again
Damian
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I fortunately just stumbled over this thread after very nearly tearing
out all my remaining hairs when my old Squeezebox V1 suddenly ceased to
play BBC stations after I upgraded SC (V3 and SoftSqueeze were just
fine).
I can confirm that nothing other than modifying custom-convert.conf
will
What does this tell us? Does this point us towards a better solution?
Not sure except SlimMP3 is treated special.
In the logs there is a buffer threshold is shown to be 65535. I odn't
have a SlimMP3 but I have tried using a bufferThreshold routine) to get
buffer this low and I cannot.
Ok, thanks a million for all your help. Was great to have such instant
responses and things to try.
I will try the startup from the command line. I just open a command
window in the SC root directory and then run the .exe? I don't need any
command line parameters? I then just set the debug level
I think you will need to change directory to the SC server first and
then run squeezecenter.exe
Make sure you change the command window size (use menu from icon in top
left hand corner of command window) to something like 300 wide and 3000
long - that way you will save a lot of message.
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Help me here. I have the same Alien BBC problem with a Slimp3 but I
don't seem to be able to fix it as you suggest. I'm running:
Version: 7.3.2 - 24695 @ Mon Jan 19 18:55:04 PST 2009
on WinXP
I've created this custom-convert.conf in Program
Files\SqueezeCenter\server
flc mp3 * *
#
If you are hearing static - then it is a lame version problem.
Go back to original conf file.
Determine what version of lame you are running and add/remove -x
according to whether you are running 3.96.1 or later.
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bpa
It wasn't clear whether you edited the Alien custom-convert.conf file or
created your own and since you didn't say what was heard silence and
static are symptoms for two different problems. The advice below is
based on the fact you are on Windows and doing bit rate limiting.
First the flc
Sorry, I'm getting pretty confused now. I was looking for the Alien
plugin but of course everything has moved now. I was making a
custom-convert.conf in SqueezeCenter\server. I from the log (attached)
that the Alien plugin is over in \Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application
A clean unmodified AlienBBC installation with no bit rate limiting
should work with SliMP3. Try that first before doing anything mods or
changes.
If it plays silence (not static) - then get a log with player.source
set to INFO of trying to play a live stream.
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bpa
A clean install with no bitrate limiting is what I have.
Attached is the requested log file.
I am getting silence and not static.
Thanks
Alice
PS The log attachment in my the previous post might also useful.
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|Filename:
Code:
09-04-04 00:24:52.6326] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (499) end of
file or error on socket, song pos: 0
This error message usually means mplayer, socketwrapper or lame is not
working.
Socketwrappper can be stopped by
1. Mplayer test works OK
2. Softsqueeze playing works OK. So does Squeezebox
How do I do what you suggest in 3?
I'm running AVG 8.5
Thanks
Alice
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Since case 2 Softsqueeze works OK then mplayer, socketwrapper and flac
are working. NO need to worry about security s/w
To test 3.
* Open WebUI Settings/Advanced/Filetypes.
* There are 3 RTSP entries with dropdown boxes. Set the Flac and WAV
entries to disabled and you should be left with just
Ok, disabled the RTSP-WAV and RTSP-FLAC.
Plays OK in Softsqueeze
Still plays sliently in Slimp3.
Attached is the log file. The first play is for the Slimp3 and the
second is for Softsqueeze.
Thanks
Alice
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|Filename:
The log shows that there is something about the settings SC has used
when streaming to SlimMP3. The SoftSuqeeze test shopws the basic
command settings are correct.
At the moment I can only suggest two things to try.
1. Edit the custom-convert.conf file in Plugins/Alien and change the
RTSP-MP3
Changing the station timeout made no difference.
Changing the bitrate to 64K however did work. The Slimp3 now shows
'buffering xx%' and when it fills plays the station.
What does this tell us? Does this point us towards a better solution?
Thanks
Alice
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I upgraded to the latest version of Squeeze Centre yesterday and the
latest version of Alien BBC.
I can listen to live and listen again streams fine thru my Squeezebox
and SoftSqueeze, but on my Slimp3 no joy. On the Slimp3 it seems to
connect and the time starts counting, but no sound. If I
What version of SC ?
What version of AlienBBC ?
Perhaps there is a difference in the setting for lame. Compare the
lame settings for Flc-MP3 setting in convert.conf against the
RTSP-MP3 setting in Alien/custom-convert.conf
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bpa
Suggest you set bitrate limiting for your squeezebox to force the use of
lame and try that - does it have the same problem?
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Thankyou both,
I'm using the latest public release:
- Version: 7.3.1 - 24372 @ Fri Dec 19 17:56:44 PST 2008
- Alien BBC (v2.4a4-7.3)
- This is running on Windows (2k3 Server SP2)
I've just tried bitrate limiting on the Squeezebox, same problem as the
Slimp3.
However, having had a look at
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