With 7.3.x and softsqueeze playing wma streams you need to use
Softsqueeze 3.8 or 3,9b1 as well as AlienBBC 2.5 if on Linux/OSX
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Version of Java ?
How did you install SoftSqueeze ? I think there is a problem with the
zip version - the libraries don't match and usually an error message
appears. Most users use the Extension Downloader.
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other forums using Google such as this post
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The bugs that 3.8 and 3.9b1 solve relate to non MP3 streams which are
transcoded into Flac typically WMA or RealAudio and also problems with
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Any news BPA? I honestly feel bad for bugging you. I would be my
pleasure to contribute via a modest monetary contribution to get this
working. I know there's a whole group of people who would like this
working.. the folks who use softsqueeze with Slimplayer
I'm doing some work on softsqueeze anyhow - so take the opportunity -
it's up to you.
There are only so many message that can be read in a day and that I
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The logs are a good starting point.
What format does Pandora use ? Have you got an account set up for
Pandora ? What are you currently using to play Pandora over SC ?
Can you also test Squeezeslave on Pandora and Sirius as another check
to see if it is an SC issue.
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Is the plugin enabled ?
IIRC as distributed the install.xml MaxVersion is set to 7.3
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Can you give more details on the FM dongle and where you bought it ?
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- the BBC may have recently changed the UK
URLs for livestreams as they have changed the handling of the
discrimination between international and UK users and this may be
causing a problem. As I am not in the UK I cannot test this.
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player.streaming.direct
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Wait at least 2 mins after playing the station before copying the log.
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For completeness, I have since found out that Listen Again is also now
available for non-UK users in Flash based AACplus. This is academic
since this format is not supported natively by SB either.
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when playing Pandora on synced players. I think the
Geo IP blocking would be done on the location of SC server.
By all stations - does that include Sirius ?
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the code in case a recent change was lost - when doing 1.7 I
found I hadn't checked in 1.6 into google code.
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message ?
Just in case Which user interface are you seeing this error message ?
Is the message the same on Squeezeplay/Controller as well as webUI (and
SB player display if you have an SB) ?
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If you want I'll put together a Perl test app just to return CDROM
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the drive. I should change it. There may be other error conditions which
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It is possible to write a plugin using despotify - however if the author
made the plugin available there is the possibility of litigation even if
there is no real case - the author would have to spend time and money
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the signal level.
Try using Audacity to get a good signal and when you achieve it - look
at the alsa mixer settings and compare to alsa mixer settings when using
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version of the OS ?
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click Apply button in bottom RHS.
3. Open Server Log window or use an Editor (e.g. word pad).
3. Try to save cover art that you know will fail.
4. Stop SC
5. Copy log entries from time noted in Step 1 until SC Stopped and save
in text file and attache to a post.
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With Gentoo installations of AlienBBC the script mplayer.sh seems to
lose its execute permission.
Check the AlienBBC Bnn directory and make sure mplayer.sh can be
executed by the Squeezecenter process (i.e. check ownership and
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Changes in 7.4 have broken AlienBBC and a few other plugins which play
audio.
I'm trying to get a fix written. There are a few more changes planned
which I think may also break AlienBBC again.
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Nothing has changed in 7.3.3 - AlienBBC 2.5 should still work. If it is
not working then it is a probably an installation or ISP problem - if
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There is no settings in the released version.
There will always be a delay but it can be minised down to maybe 0.5
secs (but if your network is not near perfect you make get rebuffering
then) so if you are planning to sync video and audio for example - it
won't work.
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the buffer size which is directly related to delay.
You need to restart SC to make any change take effect.
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Both play OK for me but there is a very long delay before stream starts
- make sure your Radio Station timeout is set to somehting like 20 or
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There is no RealAudio version of the 25 June prog - so AlienBBC cannot
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network driver and so affects performance. Test - use
onboard LAN connection and then a Normal 802.11g USB and see if
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quality difference between
for example, Radio3 WMA at 192kbit/sec and AAC at 192kbit/sec.
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If you are using 7.3.x or higher and streams that needs transcoding to
Flac (e.g. WMA , RealAudio) and you using Softsqueeze 3.7 - you should
try Softsqueeze 3.8 or 3.9b1.
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What is wrong with WAV over HTTP - no compression or encoding ?
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Use VLC on source PC.
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in AlienBBC. It uses a BBC
database/WebAPI (
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/bbc.schedule.getProgrammes.html
) but I'm not sure how reliable it is - it has been OK for the past
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Some program info on the display - current next prog title synopsis
and the station Logo.
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Glad you found it useful and feedback is always helpful.
There is a minor update to CDplayer (
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64413 ) basically artwork
and seek into tracks and a few bug fixes. I forgot to move it from beta
to main. I should do that shortly.
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). Outside the UK
the WMA streams are slower.
So to play BBC on you Squeezebox goto Internet Radio / More Radio / BBC
- and then pick your station.
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What LInux distro ?
Which audio is it using OSS, ALSA or Pulse ?
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I am not familiare with Mint but a lot of Linux problem in this area
related to permissions (e.g. access to audio devices)_ and membership of
audio group.
Can you record the PC audio output using arecord on a command line when
running as the same user id which runs Squeezecenter ?
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Nothing's wrong - AlienBBC is setup to only play to SB devices.
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IT has always been that way unless you changed the code.
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So I'm still at a loss because now the permissions are taken care of.
Are you sure ?
You have tested that you have recorded pc audio using arecord when
logged in (not su as it is not the same) as the Squeezecenter user.
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You should record to a file and then playback the file to make you
recorded the correct audio feed.
Silence can also look like
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directly ? If so then just let iPhone play the BBC URLs
directly and forget about SC.
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installed the mplayer nogui version and not the
mplayer graphical front end.
2. Check that the file mplayer.sh in the Plugins/Bin directory has
execute permissions and is owned by Squeezecenter.
Get a log of a stream starting with player.source set to DEBUG
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about 10 sec. Also for some reason some streams are now taking longer
to connect so try increasing the Web UI Settings/Advanced / Network/
Radio Station timeout to say 20.
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problem.
Does your mplayer.sh looks like this one
http://alienbbc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Alien/Bin/mplayer.sh
Specifically does it have these lines which are the fix for Ubuntu.
Code:
exec 31
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logged as the problem is in mplayer.sh.
However first I need to do the test myself so I can write down the test
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2. remove the -really-quiet from the rtsp flc line.
3. Save the file.
Run SC from the command line as detailed above - copy the resulting
messages from mplayer to post.
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and system.
You could try to increase it to say 0.3 or 0.5 and see if it works.
You do not need to stop SC between test. Just edit mplayer.sh altering
the sleep value between testing playing BBC station. Make sure edit is
saved and that playlist is cleared before each test run.
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Signal 13 is broken pipe which mean SC has decided to stop listening
to mplayer so it is the same timeout problem - just you now see it from
mplayer side.
I noticed before you have your system set up for nosound.
How did you do that so that I can test that setting on my system.
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release (and buggier) mainly add video support which are not necessary
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may be the problem. If so, I need to think up a test to
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There's no indication of a problem with mplayer - just with access to
/dev/fd/3.
This is the exact symptom which resulted in the mplayer.sh update so I
think it is mplayer.sh that needs to be sorted.
How about my question about SC7.2 with Alien2.4 on Ubuntu9.04 ?
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A minor point - I'm pretty sure Extension Downloader only came
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is why I was wondering about left over files.
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RealAudio streams.
I'll have to uninstall everything and so a clean install to see if I
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I've uninstalled SC and AlienBBC and re-installed 7.3.3 and 2.5-7.3 -
everything works OK
I think some more diagnostics in mplayer.sh are needed.
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2. A new entry will appear offering AlienBBC upgrade to 2.6b1-7.3.
Select and click Apply.
3. Restart SC
After restart, if AlienBBC does not have a BBC Live Streams - WMA
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AlienBBC and BBCiPlayer perform roughly the same task of providing
access to BBC Listen Again and it is likely that AlienBBC will
eventually be reduced to just provide RealAudio support as BBC feeds
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more message to make sure all the command (e.g. exec) are in fact
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Looks wrong unless you are using an old version.
What version of SC ?
What OS ?
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BBC Local radio is still in RealAudio format and so you need a working
version of mplayer.
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I felt it was better to show the user local time rather than BBC time
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The update will not solve your problem. 2.6 only add titles to Listen
Again and live streams. It make no change to basic playing code.
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It's not the end of the road since it was working - it's just a matter
of finding out what's changed to blocking usage of /dev/fd.
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Quick reaction.
There is something wrong - that conf file dumps all mplayer error
message to /dev/null - they should not be visible. IT is possible the
conf file is not being used.
Can you show the player.source = DEBUG log where the mplayer command is
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mplayer errors message are directed into /dev/null
Can you show the player.source log.
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::Player::Player::_buffering (1167) Buffering...
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Sorry I can't help - I don't know what SSODS does to a NAS system and
whether the mplayer depends on SSODS or not.
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Slim::Player::StreamingController::_NoOp
sh: /usr/share/squeezecenter/Bin/i386-linux/flac: not found
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http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10886 ) and Bug 11223 (
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that it really has stopped. On Windows some user have
stopped/restarted the tray application and not SC.
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