Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
> > I agree squeezeslave is the no-gui player, it's just unfortunate that > it has a major flaw and is not being developed any more. > There has been more development recently on squeezeslave that Softsqueeze. > > I'd do it myself but I don't know either Java or what I'm really doing > when it comes to compiling Java applications. > Everybody starts with no knowledge of Java - I didn't about 3 months ago. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
I'd be really interested in seeing this issue resolved. I've had the same problems reported here for a long time and I'd never considered that it might be because I don't have X. I assumed that -Dskin=headless would switch off all GUI routines. If this could be fixed it would be great. -- rickwookie rickwookie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6397 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
I agree squeezeslave is the no-gui player, it's just unfortunate that it has a major flaw and is not being developed any more. Well, if you could build a version, just for testing, it'd be really appreciated - but no pressure :). Perhaps someone else might take up an interest in persuing the no-gui version further if it tests sucessful. I'd do it myself but I don't know either Java or what I'm really doing when it comes to compiling Java applications. Thanks again. -- rjg_scotland rjg_scotland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
I am only doing basic maintenance on Softsqueeze to keep it runnig with new version of Java and Squeezecenter. If I build a no GUI version would be only to test headless issue to isolate the problem. However, this does not stop anybody else from doing so but as I see it squeezeslave is the no GUI player and there is no point in creating yet another player and spreading resources even thinner. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
Hi, I vote for a non GUI version of SoftSqueeze, or at least being able to invoke SoftSqueeze without a GUI that runs continuously with no problems. I too am running a minimal Fedora linux installation without X installed (booting from a 8Gig Compact Flash Card). I don't want the overhead of a GUI, and I hope this will be a set-and-forget box. I'm happy to move from SqueezeSlave to SoftSqueeze on this box if SoftSqueeze can solve the chipmunk problem, and run non GUI as-a-service. Thanks for your help. -- nowork nowork's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20453 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
bpa;421305 Wrote: > It's a possibility and worth checking but it may require creating a > special headless build with no GUI libraries to test. Well, if you want I could install X (but not sure if/when I could get round to it today) however I'd rather avoid it. It depends how much of a bother it is for you (or I) to compile a version without the GUI libraries. Thanks for your help so far! -- rjg_scotland rjg_scotland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
> > Could that be causing problems with SoftSqueeze even in headless mode > do you think? > It's a possibility and worth checking but it may require creating a special headless build with no GUI libraries to test. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
It's ALSA I'm using. I don't actually have X installed on the box I'm afraid - it's very minimal just for playing audio. Could that be causing problems with SoftSqueeze even in headless mode do you think? -- rjg_scotland rjg_scotland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
Can you run Softsqueeze without the "-Dskins=headless" and then ignore the display and use as if headless (i.e. do not do anything at all with Softsqueeze UI) to see if problems happen. Make sure after Softsqueeze starts you select a different window and do no SoftSqueeze UI action whatsoever (e.g. no minimise) This is needed to check if headless skin is the problem or whether some part of UI initialisation is the problem. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
IT's posible the Softsqueeze is locked waiting on the Sun JavaSound output. How is your audio configured on your system - ALSA, Pulse, OSS ? Is there any other app that could do audio at the same time (e.g. Browser open running a Java applet). ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
Attached is the thread dump. The process continued to play the track while stuck for a minute or so before spitting the following out to the console: Code: 0[SlimTCP-1] WARN softsqueeze - Lost contact with Slim Server Thanks a lot for your help. +---+ |Filename: threaddump.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7359| +---+ -- rjg_scotland rjg_scotland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
I assume when Softsqueeze is running, it is running in a shell with its own window. I want you to get a thread dump of Softsqueeze when it is stuck. >From another shell prompt window - find out the process number (pid) of the Softsqueeze process and issue the following command kill -QUIT where is the process number. This will cause the JVM to do a thread dump. Copy the dump to a file and attach to a post. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
Single core P4 with HT (according to cpuinfo): Code: juke...@jukebox:~/softsqueeze$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family: 15 model : 2 model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 2400.236 cache size: 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp: yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts sync_rdtsc bogomips : 4803.75 clflush size : 64 The format doesn't matter (same result with any) and it's all from local files. I should also point out that the display stops updating with the time/progress bar when it stops responding to user input. -- rjg_scotland rjg_scotland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
What is the format (MP3/WMA/ALAC/OGG ?) and source (file/stream) of music played. What type of processor ? Doe it have HT or mulitple cores ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
SqueezeCenter is running and SoftSqueeze is started. SoftSqueeze is selected from the player dropdown. Some music is browsed/searched for in the left pane. A song is set to play. At this point it does start playing and shows the progress/time, etc. It's after this it all goes wrong... If I put the volume up one notch or change track, it works once. After that the web UI has no effect at all on SoftSqueeze. You can click the volume, progress bar, next/prev track, pause, or whatever, and nothing happens. The only way I can shut the player up is to terminate the process. This happens consistently. I've tried restarting SC also with no effect. Hope that helps. -- rjg_scotland rjg_scotland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
I'll only try to reproduce with Softsqueeze headless issue. What type of processor ? Does it have HyperThreading or multiple cores ? Assuming SC is running and Softsqueeze has just been started. Also make sure SC and Softsqueeze are running on the same system. Please describe a sequence of mouse clicks on WebUI that causes a reproducible problem. Please describe the problem. If it involves playing a file or stream - please give details of the file format or stream url. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
bpa;421042 Wrote: > I have done some basic testing headless of Softsqueeze 3.9b1 on Ubuntu > 8.10 and no problems with MP3 or WMA both streams and files. > > Can you be very explicit about your system config and also provide a > reproducible exact sequence which shows up a specific symptom. > > Softsqueeze is now community supported so if you don't provide good > info on problems, they will never get fixed. Code: juke...@jukebox:~$ java -showversion java version "1.6.0_07" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b23, mixed mode, sharing) Soundcard: SiS SI7012 SC installed via squeezecenter_7.3.3~26407_all.deb Code: SqueezeCenter Status Version: 7.3.3 - 26407 @ Tue May 5 03:18:00 PDT 2009 Hostname: jukebox Server IP Address: 192.168.1.102 Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8 Platform Architecture: i686-linux Perl Version: 5.8.8 - i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi MySQL Version: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 Total Players Recognized: 1 squeezeslave-0.8-33-lnx26-alsa-display-i686.tar.gz extracted and run SoftSqueeze extracted from SoftSqueeze39b1.zip and run via java -Dslimserver=127.0.0.1 -Dskins=headless -jar SoftSqueeze.jar Please tell me what info you want me to provide and I'll happily provide it (any config file contents, etc). Perhaps something in convert.conf needs to be added/changed (with regards to squeezeslave "chipmunks" anyway)..? Thanks -- rjg_scotland rjg_scotland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
> > uncontrollable SoftSqueeze headless. > I have done some basic testing headless of Softsqueeze 3.9b1 on Ubuntu 8.10 and no problems with MP3 or WMA both streams and files. Can you be very explicit about your system config and also provide a reproducible exact sequence which shows up a specific symptom. Softsqueeze is now community supported so if you don't provide good info on problems, they will never get fixed. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
Hi, Fedora 10 Squeezecenter Version: 7.3.3 - 26407 @ Tue May 5 03:07:03 PDT 2009 squeezeslave-0.8.33-2.i386 MSI Atom 330 Motherboard, Realtek ALC858 audio(40Watts total power) Squeezeslave plays ripped CDs and high bitrate internet radio like IO Radio at 128KBPS, OK. SqueezeSlave, Chipmunks with National Public Radio (NPR) on WBUR 24kbps CBR or 32kbps CBR. The words are intelligible, but the pitch is chipmunk. SoftSqueeze plays NPR fine on the same machine. However I don't know how to make SoftSqueeze "run as a service." I want to run this box headless and control the onboard audio via SqueezeCenter/the Web. Except for chipmunks, squeezeslave seems great. Thanks -- nowork nowork's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20453 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
SqueezeCenter: 7.3.2 - 24695 SqueezeSlave: 0.8-33 SoftSqueeze: 3.8 OS: Ubuntu 8.04 server "Chipmunks" happens with any format (at a sample rate under 44kHz), including MP3. There's a number of sources (including the thread I referenced earlier) saying that SqueezeSlave is locked at 44kHz. If you know different do let me know! It's a shame because otherwise it's absolutely rock solid. In the mean time I'll experiment with SoftSqueeze 3.9b1 and SqueezeCenter 7.3.3. Thanks for your help! -- rjg_scotland rjg_scotland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
More system details - what version of SC and SS ? If you are using 7.3.x - then use SS 3.9b1 - see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 Re: "Chipmunks" What formats are you playing ? What version of SC and what OS ? If it is not a native format either MP3 or Flac then you should examine the transcoding rules and also try 7.3.3. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze headless with squeezecenter problems
Hi, I have the same problem. I can't listen to NPR radio with squeezeslave, because it sounds like "chipmunks." I tried softsqueeze and could play NPR but was tied to the local monitor/gui. Maybe as more of these cheap/energy efficient boxes get linux/squeezecenter installations by endusers, we can get enough interest to have squeezeslave be updated to work with more bitrates? -- nowork nowork's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20453 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63052 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
