Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-04-01 Thread rbl
Upgrading to LMS 8.1.2 and SqueezeLite 1.9.9 seems to have done the trick ... thanks very much. SB3 -> Quad 909 -> Quad Electrostatic speakers, Quad 405 -> TBI subwoofer 3 x SB3s + SB Radio LMS on Raspbian on a Pi4 Rotel RSP1068 surround processor, Quad 707 -> B surround

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-03-27 Thread Paul Webster
8.2 is where the experiments are. 8.1.x is the stable one. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-03-27 Thread rbl
Man in a van wrote: > Why such an old version of LMS ? > > And is your squeezelite up to date? > > ronnie Good thinking. Should I upgrade to LMS 7.9.4? Or 8.? ? I guess 8.? is still experimental so 7.9.4 is probably better? I was running SqueezeLite 1.8 on the Pi4 so have upgraded 1.9.9

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-03-27 Thread Man in a van
Why such an old version of LMS ? And is your squeezelite up to date? ronnie Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-03-27 Thread rbl
I have also added -a :::0 after getting a lot of re-buffering after an update a month or two ago. But I still get occasional re-buffering. It works 100% perfectly on streaming radio, but when playing my FLACs every so often it locks up for about 30s, and eventually gets going again. This happens

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-20 Thread Man in a van
bpa wrote: > Just checking other possibilities on Pi4 and Buster Desktop > > The following both work from a shell prompt (not tested as a service) > and audio is output via Pulseaudio. Using pavucontrol squeezelite can be > seen to be an application using Pulseaudio (output is shared with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-20 Thread bpa
Just checking other possibilities on Pi4 and Buster Desktop The following both work from a shell prompt (not tested as a service) and audio is output via Pulseaudio. Using pavucontrol squeezelite can be seen to be an application using Pulseaudio (output is shared with system sounds) and it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-20 Thread Man in a van
ryandkg wrote: > > > I have to say that although I'm (fairly) certain that I had tested the > "-a :::0" flag in one of my many attempts, it could be that I have > created a false memory. > > One point that I will add to the discussion. At least on my pi4 (2Gb), > I had to set the "Wait for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread ryandkg
Well, many thanks to all, especially @Man in a van (ronnie) and @bpa. After literally (by which I literally mean literally) exactly following the steps outlined in post #26 of this thread I can report success. I have to say that although I'm (fairly) certain that I had tested the "-a :::0"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread RobbH
Paul Webster wrote: > I think that RPi4 (and perhaps 400) is the only RPi model(s) that needs > nmap 0 Like the OP in this thread, I found that it was necessary, in my case on a 3B+. Discussed in this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread Man in a van
Paul Webster wrote: > I think that RPi4 (and perhaps 400) is the only RPi model(s) that needs > nmap 0 You may well be correct, here is a rpi3b with the old debian squeezelite 33464 Plays fine ronnie +---+ |Filename: old

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > I think that RPi4 (and perhaps 400) is the only RPi model(s) that needs > nmap 0 The annoying thing is without the "-a :::0" squeezelite looks like it is working. A slimproto command to change volume show on a log "-d slimproto=info" so squeezelite looks normal - just

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread Paul Webster
I think that RPi4 (and perhaps 400) is the only RPi model(s) that needs nmap 0 Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread bpa
I have a Raspbian Desktop Pi4 whicis my LMS server. Never bother to test audio on it before. I installed an old squeezelite build 1.9.7 from a tar file. No other files (e.g. no sysntemd stuff). running squeezelite from shell prompt - I get no sound etc. out of CARD=Headphone VLC SQUEEZLITE

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread Man in a van
@RYANDKG I hope you find this info helpful :) I made a fresh Raspberry PI OS Desktop on a rpi 4b (2gb) Updated to the latest software > > pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a > Linux raspberrypi 5.10.11-v7l+ #1399 SMP Thu Jan 28 12:09:48 GMT 2021 > armv7l GNU/Linux As *bpa* has remarked, the debian

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread Man in a van
@RYANDKG One can just uncomment the line SL_ALSA_PARAMS 33435 +---+ |Filename: headphones 3.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=33435|

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread bpa
If you want a GUI to see/control Pulseaudio then you can install pavucontrol. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113867

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread Man in a van
@ryandkg First, your getting there Second, the method decribed by Gerrelts is several years old, when PulseAudio was deprecated by the rpi foundation. Now they have decided that it is "the bees knees". I think it's to do with easy bluetooth, or something I have just completed a squeezelite

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread ryandkg
I'm building the new Raspbian Lite SD card right now so I can't be exact on some details but here is what I can recall... bpa wrote: > this will be using the default output. > > Did you check volume ? > Different devices can have different settings. I did use alsamixer to set the audio to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread bpa
> > > Code: > > sudo /usr/bin/squeezelite-armv6hf > > > > Success! Audio output. > this will be using the default output. > > Then I tried with *hw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0* and all of the other > "bcm2835 Headphones" devices and either got no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread ryandkg
Here is the result so far... 1) Raspberry Pi OS with desktop Jan 11/21 installed WITHOUT updates at initial configuration (only set locale info, no wi-fi, no updates) 2) from terminal window: Code: sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade echo "unset

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-18 Thread bpa
ryandkg wrote: > The 1.8 version is the one that is installed by the Add/Remove Software > tool in RaspbianOS. Also the version that is fetched using "apt-get" > which I presume is the engine for the GUI tool.[/quopte] > For some reason the Debian squeezelite does not seem to be maintained. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-17 Thread ryandkg
bpa wrote: > > My observations: 1.8 is old - so whereever you are getting the > Squeezlite - stop using it and find the up to date build - 1.9.8 > The 1.8 version is the one that is installed by the Add/Remove Software tool in RaspbianOS. Also the version that is fetched using "apt-get"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-17 Thread bpa
ryandkg wrote: > The squeezelite instance is reporting version 1.8 with playername > "raspberry pi". The player MAC address is appearing as > 00:00:00:00:00:00 Follow "Main in a van" comments. My observations: 1.8 is old - so whereever you are getting the Squeezlite - stop using and find

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-17 Thread Man in a van
ryandkg wrote: > I hope I'm not hijacking this thread, > > Any feedback welcome. http://www.gerrelt.nl/RaspberryPi/wordpress/tutorial-installing-squeezelite-player-on-raspbian/, currently I use Code: mkdir squeezelite cd squeezelite wget -O

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-17 Thread ryandkg
I hope I'm not hijacking this thread, but this is the closest thing I have found to a solution to my current problem. As ehjones has described in this thread, I could not get any output from the audio jack (headphones) on a rPi4. I have gone though a number of clean installs and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-09 Thread ehjones
Thank you to 'ralphy' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?3484-ralphy) for giving me the fix: -a :::0 to disable mmap. I thought I was going crazy, although I'm a bit embarrassed because I had all the evidence in front of me to fix it myself, I just needed to read -h more closely.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-09 Thread ralphy
>From the logs, you are using a very old version of squeezelite v1.8 that is no longer supported, at least not by me. Either get the dietpi team to upgrade to the 'current 1.9.8-1344' (https://github.com/ralph-irving/squeezelite). Or, you can try my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-08 Thread Man in a van
Well the only thing that is obvious is that the output device is opened before the update 33284 and not open after the update 33285 But then, i have a short attention span when it comes to this sort of thing :rolleyes::) sorry :( ronnie

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-08 Thread Man in a van
@EHJONES Because pCP 7 does not work on my rpi1b I have reverted to raspberry PI OS Lite on my old "turtle". It has the Cirrus Logic Dac fitted. At the weekend I updated the OS and I'm now on > Linux cirruslogic 5.10.11+ #1399 Thu Jan 28 12:02:28 GMT 2021 armv6l > GNU/Linux NO problems at

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-08 Thread ehjones
Sorry to go on about this. I'm not sure where else I can discuss this! I've had a recurrence of the problem - squeezelite not working on an rPi3 running upgraded Raspbian Lite 10.7 regardless of any option switches. How I can reproduce it: 1. A fresh flash of Raspbian Lite 32-bit, release

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-07 Thread ehjones
Yes I'm using Raspbian 10.7 and HDMI output. I've never needed to set an output option previously - the default was always fine, but suddenly none of the options listed by -l worked, even though hdmi and also was still working for omxplayer. Anyway, I was going in circles and nothing I tried

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-07 Thread bpa
Ignore the visualisation for the moment - it is driven from the data stream from LMS. No audio output is an issue with the output device. If as a result of Pulseaudio or something else, some other application has access to audio output device - it can kill output from Squeezelite to same

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread ehjones
Thank you for your help Squeezelite v1.9.8-1344, Copyright 2012-2015 Adrian Smith, 2015-2021 Ralph Irving. ed@sand:~/tmp $ ./squeezelite -l Output devices: null - Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) jack - JACK

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread bpa
ehjones wrote: > I'll try specifying an output device, thank you // edit: no change :( Not clear what that update is. OS Update could change changed output devices - if it is a big version change to Buster - you may now have Pulseaudio. What does squeezelite -l (lower case letter L) show for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread ehjones
I've downloaded Squeezelite v1.9.8-1344. Running this with -d all=info reports this repeatedly: [20:48:42.121746] output_thread:764 start error: File descriptor in bad state [20:48:42.131911] output_thread:764 start error: File descriptor in bad state [20:48:42.142075] output_thread:764 start

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread ehjones
LMS Logitech Media Server Version: 8.1.1 - 1610364019 @ Thu Jan 14 06:24:07 CET 2021 Squeezelite v1.8 Both squeezelite and LMS are running on Raspbian 10.7, on rpi3 and rpi2 respectively. I'm trying to play mp3 files stored locally on the LMS server. BBC Sounds also fails. I don't use -C

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread bpa
ehjones wrote: > Any ideas how to troubleshoot this further, please? Thank you! What could have changed ? Between playing tracks did it suddenly stop ? or was there a gap in usage between workg and not working when something happened (e.g. OS update) >From log - it looks like squeezelite is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread Man in a van
More information may help others to help you which LMS version? which squeezelite version? which raspberry pi os version? what exactly are you trying to play? Do you have the "-C" setting enabled in squeezelite? Man

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-06 Thread ehjones
Hi all, Today I'm suddenly having problems with squeezelite running on a rPi3. Everything looks right, but there's no audio output. If it's at all relevant, I've enabled the visualisation output (-v) and there's no PCM data being output either (the file where the PCM data is output to is being