Bugzilla – Bug 1992
Softsqueeze flaky with Live365 streams, Squeeze Network sound streams
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:20:50 UTC
ound a problem with Softsqueeze that causes it not to play a stream even though it says it's "Now playing". This seems to happen with virtually all Live365 streams as well as the Squeeze Network's Natural Sounds. The problem does not happen with RadioIO or Shoutcast. On the same streams I also noticed that the player sometimes gets hung up around the elapsed time mark 04:14. Then it just sits there (no sound) and says Now Playing 04:14 Now Playing 04:13 Now Playing 04:14 Now Playing 04:13. Looping again and again on the display. There is a work around to get it to play -- clicking the pause button once or twice (after you know the stream is already buffered), usually will get the stream going. I tried switching from Java MP3 Plugin to JLayer, but I'm still seeing the same problem I had before. On Live 365, the stream won't start playing unless: after clicking play and waiting a few seconds for the stream to start buffering, you toggle to pause and then un-pause. Then it plays fine. So still the problem originally described is still there. I normally wouldn't notice this problem (I just moved and my squeezeboxes are still packed), but I'm using Softsqueeze on my PC a lot until I fully unpack and setup my SB's and stereos. Anyway, I hope this can be fixed easily. I'm currently using Softsqueeze 2.0b11 (but it also happened on 2.0-10
Fixed Live365 streams when used with local slimserver in r4735. Still does not seem to work correctly with Squeezenetwork - I've asked Dean for some ideas.
This seems to works with Softsqueeze 2.1. Both Live365 streams and the Natural Sounds start playing after about four seconds when connected to the SqueezeNetwork. Please confirm and close the bug. Thanks.