Bugzilla – Bug 16210
Radio alarm plays 1 second of unexpected rock song instead of current playlist, then stops
Last modified: 2011-08-09 00:38:51 UTC
Created attachment 6831 [details] Alarm page My Radio (firmware 7.5.0-r8673) is supposed to play the current playlist as an alarm. It usually does. But sometimes it gets into a strange mode where instead, the alarm plays 1 second of an unfamiliar rock song, then shuts off. I'll attach screenshots of the alarm setup and the current playlist. As you can see, we're at track 4 of the playlist, not at the end yet. The bad alarm is the repeating 7:15am alarm. Maybe the rock song is a stock alarm sound? Please let me know what other debug information I can send. Note about the alarm screenshot: the server UI has another bug (been around much longer) where if your alarm sound is the Current Playlist, it's displayed as a blank entry in the Alarm Sound dropdown. (It's correct in the Radio UI.) That's why the Alarm Sound appears blank in the screenshot. It really is the current playlist. Re-selecting and saving the alarm sound does not change the problem - next time you visit the player settings page for alarms, it's blank again. (This is on Linux Firefox 3.6.2 anyway.)
Created attachment 6832 [details] My current playlist for the alarm
Once the radio enters this mode, it ONLY plays the 1 second rock music clip every day. If I modify my playlist by browsing & choosing other music, the problem goes away. But it comes back again days later.
The bug's behavior is slightly different than I reported. After it plays 1-2 seconds of the loud rock song, there are 10 seconds of silence, and then the real alarm starts playing (in my case, quiet classical music). I am attaching an audio file of the experience: the loud rock music, the silence, and then the real alarm. I suspect the rock music is one of your stock alarms, but I can't figure out how to audition them. I am raising the priority of this bug because it JOLTS people awake... this is the kind of bug that makes people throw away their alarm clock and buy a different one.
Created attachment 6836 [details] What happens: The wrong alarm, followed by silence, followed by the real alarm
More details: Today, the alarm rang normally, playing my current playlist. The final song in the playlist ended, and immediately, the loud rock song began and played until I turned the Radio off. So it looks like Radio behavior has changed. It used to be when the current playlist ended, the Radio would be silent. Now it's playing this loud "default" rock sound afterward. It's infuriating!
This morning, the loud rock song played again, jolting me awake. I shut off the alarm. A few seconds later, the real alarm (current playlist) started playing. This SUCKS. Is anybody reading these comments? I own 10 Squeezeboxes (i.e., good customer) and I'm about to throw one of them in the trash.
There are a ton of fixes for alarms in the upcoming 7.5.1 release. I'm just going to drop this bug on the back burner until that release comes out, and then we can see what bugs are left over.
Thank you for your response, Chris. Good luck with 7.5.1.
Daniel, do you still have this problem with 7.5.1?
By the way, the 'loud rock music' is the backup alarm sound that is only supposed to sound if the alarm fails.
I haven't upgraded to 7.5.1 yet but will do so. Alan - where is the "backup alarm sound" file physically located on the Radio (or server)? If 7.5.1 doesn't fix the problem, I want to replace that file with a quieter MP3.
With 7.5.1, I haven't seen the "play for 1 second" behavior, but the default "rock song" alarm came on yesterday instead of my regular alarm. It's possible the playlist finished and the rock song came on afterward. ***** Please tell me where the "backup alarm sound" file is physically located on the Radio (or server)? I want to replace that file with a quieter MP3. Thanks.
My SB Radio, running 7.5.1 r9009, will not wake up to a long-playing radio stream. Instead, it wakes up to the stream, plays for a few seconds, and then turns off. I want it to remain playing the stream for an hour, so I can wake up listening to the station. I usually use an National Public Radio stream, and want to listen to the news. Currently it only plays a few seconds and then turns off. I've tried all sorts of configuration changes, with no change in this behavior. I use mysqueezebox.com, not a locally installed server. So, yes, the radio goes off at the right time. But what's the point if it turns itself off after a few seconds? Thanks, Richard Trinkner