David - is this still an issue with the latest build?

I'm unable to reproduce.

Thanks.

I ended up going back to the 6.2.2 build the other day.  Part of the problem looked to be an #undef that's a couple of lines too early - so the proper error may not be displayed (at least that's how I interpreted the note about the SCALAR reference on line 673 of /PerlApp/Slim/Buttons/XMLBrowser.pm.  The real issue appeared to be something to do with parsing the XML feed.  I'm pretty busy at the moment so I wasn't able to look into any more.

I'll try and reinstall 6.5 over the weekend and provide an update as to it still happening.  My original 6.5 install followed all the defaults nothing tweaked.

This is still a bug for me on my main system at work.  100% repeatable.

Chris - what version? .exe or ActiveState?

I've submitted a possible fix as subversion change 6589

Just checked with today's nightly (6676) after spying a post on the boards, and the poster and I am still having this problem.  Let me know if there's more info I can provide.

This appears to happen for Podcast Browser with PodcastAlley top 50 / 10 Newest, Internet radio/Slim Devices Picks and Live Music Archive.

I have the same prob with BBC Radio 1 feed (and others). Worked fine on 6.2.1 but when I upgraded to the latest 6.5b1 (on 25/03/06) I get the problem. RSS news feeds and mp3 streaming of live radio works fine. Below is extract from "slim.exe --d_plugin --d_source --d_remotestream"...


2006-03-25 15:15:59.0777 ERROR: XMLBrowser: failed to parse feed because:

not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 6, byte 6 at /PerlApp/XML/Pars
er.pm line 187


2006-03-25 15:15:59.0926 ERROR: XMLBrowser: here's the bad feed:
[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl" href="http://downloads.b
bc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/common/rss_rm.xsl"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" xmlns:itunes="http
://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">
        <channel>
                <title>Best of Moyles</title>
                <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/</link>
                <description>The best of the Chris Moyles show from BBC Radio 1.
  Weekly highlights taken from the breakfast show, as broadcast by Chris and tea
m every morning on Radio 1 from 7am to 10am.</description>
                <itunes:author>BBC Radio 1</itunes:author>
                <language>en-gb</language>
                <ttl>720</ttl>

                <itunes:image href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/ima
ges/programmes/300x300/radio1_bestofmoyles.jpg"/>

                <copyright>(C) BBC 2005</copyright>
                <pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
                <itunes:category text="Public Radio"/>
                <itunes:keywords>BBC</itunes:keywords>
                <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>

                <item>
                        <title>Moyles: Patsy Kensit. 24 Mar 06</title>
                        <description>The new Best of Moyles now with extra bits,
 including
the very funny Patsy Kensit interview, Dave and Dom singing jingles and
Rachel and Carrie's skydive antics.</description>
                        <itunes:subtitle>Moyles: Patsy Kensit. 24 Mar 06</itunes
:subtitle>
                        <itunes:summary>The new Best of Moyles now with extra bi
ts, including
the very funny Patsy Kensit interview, Dave and Dom singing jingles and
Rachel and Carrie's skydive antics.</itunes:summary>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <itunes:duration>00:30:00</itunes:duration>
                        <guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmh
ttp/downloadtrial/radio1/bestofmoyles/bestofmoyles_20060324-0700_40_pc.mp3</guid
>
                        <enclosure url="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downlo
adtrial/radio1/bestofmoyles/bestofmoyles_20060324-0700_40_pc.mp3" length="126926
05" type="audio/mpeg"/>
                        <media:content url="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/do
wnloadtrial/radio1/bestofmoyles/bestofmoyles_20060324-0700_40_pc.mp3"
                                fileSize="12692605"
                                type="audio/mpeg"
                                expression="full"
                                duration="1800"
                                bitrate="40"/>

                </item>
        </channel>
</rss>
]


2006-03-25 15:15:59.2996 XMLBrowser: error retrieving <http://downloads.bbc.co.u
k/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio1/bestofmoyles/rss.xml>:
2006-03-25 15:15:59.3047
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 6, byte 6 at /PerlApp/XML/Pars
er.pm line 187

*** Bug 3183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Dan

IMHO all these problems (including Shoutcast) might be related to change 5697 ff (passing xml as reference to XML::Simple::XMLIn()). I had someone experiencing that problem replace shoutcast with a revision where I only removed the leading \, thus passing the string, not only a reference to it. It worked for him. I myself can't reproduce the problem. Most users seem inaffected...

All users I asked were using the compiled win32 build, and some confirmed _not_ having any perl on their computers.

This has been fixed in the latest nightly builds for all versions.