Inconsideramus wrote: > This is my main media playback machine, so I'm looking to have all of my > various apps playback through the same speakers. > > Everything seems to work as expected when I run Squeezelite from the > command line, but something different is going on when the service > starts at boot or with > Code: -------------------- > > service squeezelite start -------------------- > > . When starting as a service, it plays fine at first, but as soon as > I use the software mixer (change system volume level), Squeezelite > goes silent. > > I'm guessing this could mean that the service is starting with a > device output other than PulseAudio, but I don't seem to be going to > the right place or entering the right details to tweak that option.
Will PulseAudio be running at system boot, when you're not yet logged in to a desktop session? Inconsideramus wrote: > > When I edit /etc/default/squeezelite - even just to add > Code: -------------------- > > SL_SOUNDCARD="pulse" -------------------- > > it seems to just crash, showing me: > > > Code: -------------------- > > squeezelite.service - LSB: Lightweight headless Squeezebox emulator > Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/squeezelite; generated) > Active: active (exited) since Fri 2019-04-19 14:34:01 MST; 9s ago > Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) > Process: 13693 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/squeezelite stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) > Process: 14218 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/squeezelite start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) > > Apr 19 14:34:01 Maxie systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Lightweight headless Squeezebox emulator... > Apr 19 14:34:01 Maxie systemd[1]: Started LSB: Lightweight headless Squeezebox emulator. -------------------- > > > > My hunch would be that Ubuntu's use of an old-style init script could be causing any potentially-helpful error messages from the squeezelite binary to be discarded, here. You could try cribbing the 'systemd service file from Fedora's package' (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/squeezelite/blob/master/f/squeezelite.system.service) to see whether that's more informative. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mavit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10203 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
