[User 29008]

I am running the latest Dharma-Branch svn build and have run into shoutcast problems once again ...

Opening a radio station takes kinda ages to start with. Plays fine then though ...
Stopping the playback makes xbmc hang and I have to kill xbmc.bin to stop it.

Anyone else experiencing this?

boba

[VCDmonger]

Hey guys,

got a question about the current state of the shoutcast addon.
Basically it seems to be working fine. Only thing I am missing is some more "sort" options when having a shoutcast genre selected.
I can only sort by "bitrate" and "name". Before you used to be able to sort by "rating" as well ....
Is this still a bug? Or a feature that isn't implemented in the new addon yet?

boba

I would also like to know the answer to this. 'Sort by rating' (number of listeners) was the only way I ever sorted stations in Shoutacst under XBMC 9.11 and earlier; lower rated stations tend to have problems such as connection/streaming issues, or the music selection is just not good. It is much easier to sort by rating than to wade through all the crap to find a good station, especially when a genre has hundreds of stations to choose from.

Just for information's sake, I'm running Dharma Beta 2 under Win7 x64, with Shoutcast add-on v1.0.6.

[User 29008]

Yes ... plus there seems to be another issue right now. I am running latest svn from Dharma Branch, so Post-Beta2. And opening a shoutcast stream takes ages and when I stop it, XBMC hangs.
Do you have the same issue with beta2?

boba

[VCDmonger]

Do you have the same issue with beta2?

I do not experience the issue you described using beta 2, so as long as you're using the same Shoutcast 1.0.6 add-on the issue should be with the post-beta2 build (or some other problem with your setup).
In any case, I hope the "sort by rating" feature comes back in the next version.

[User 29008]

Hmm, I can definately reproduce the issue I mentioned. Even with a clean XBMC install from svn.
Opening a stream takes longer than normal. Stopping it, like right now, makes XBMC hang :-(

Gonna try and check out Beta2 now, compared to Dharma-SVN branch, see if I don't get the problem there.

boba

[User 29008]

@ahmet

just found this ticket regarding the issue, with shoutcast streams taking long to open and I think my crash issue when stopping a stream might also be related:

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10419

"Sounds like it is related to #10373 and should be fixed once the shoutcast add-on is modified to send out shout:// URLs instead of http:// ones. "

Could you maybe take care of this? Because 1.0.6 is unusable in its current state with Post-Beta2 builds :-(

thanks

boba

[amet]

@ahmet

its amet

just found this ticket regarding the issue, with shoutcast streams taking long to open and I think my crash issue when stopping a stream might also be related:

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10419

"Sounds like it is related to #10373 and should be fixed once the shoutcast add-on is modified to send out shout:// URLs instead of http:// ones. "

Could you maybe take care of this? Because 1.0.6 is unusable in its current state with Post-Beta2 builds :-(

thanks

boba

once addons move to Dharma branch from dharma-pre I will update shoutcast addon to send shout:// instead of http://, any changes now would break it on trunk as the trunk wouldnt know what to do with shout://

[User 29008]

Hi Amet, sorry for the name typo.
thanks for your quick reply. Could I change the plugin myself?
I took a look at default.py, would it be enough to change http: to shout: in "def PLAY"? Or is there more to be done.
I tried that, and the plugin behaves the same as before, still seems to open streams via "http:".

Any advice on this?

thanks

boba

[amet]

Hi Amet, sorry for the name typo.
thanks for your quick reply. Could I change the plugin myself?
I took a look at default.py, would it be enough to change http: to shout: in "def PLAY"? Or is there more to be done.
I tried that, and the plugin behaves the same as before, still seems to open streams via "http:".

Any advice on this?

thanks

boba

you could change it yourself, but remember that it will only work if you check out dharma branch and build it yourself , trunk doesnt have this.

so only if you checked out Dharma branch >= 34297 and built it yourself:

replace line 51 in default.py:

Code:

url = "http://yp.shoutcast.com%s?id=%s" %(tunein,st_id,)

with:

Code:

url = "shout://yp.shoutcast.com%s?id=%s" %(tunein,st_id,)

NOTE: this is untested by me, let us know if that works for you.

[User 29008]

I was pretty sure that's what I tried man, we are talking about default.py in .xbmc/addons/plugin.audio.shoutcast/ right? Because there is also a zipped archive in .xbmc/addons/packages. Do I have to change the file in there as well and repack it?
Because as I said, after changing that line, I still got the slow opening issue with shoutcast, and I am pretty sure I can see "Opening http: ...." when playing a radio station. Shouldn't it say "Opening shout:// ...." then?

Btw, running dharma-branch 34620 right now.

EDIT: just tried again, even reinstalled the plugin from my self-repacked zip file with the modified content. No changes, same behaviour as before :-(

boba

[spiff]

cache is irrelevant. log will tell what urls it's opening.

[User 29008]

cache is irrelevant. log will tell what urls it's opening.

Well actually log doesn't tell me anything right now ... nothing regarding the shoutcast stream I played, nada. Had to kill xbmc.bin though after I hit stop, since it hung on me.

boba

[User 29008]

Alright, I checked via debug logging and stream is opened via shout://...
Though, it still opens as slow as before. Plus xbmc still hangs on me when I stop the stream ... doesn't anybody else experience this? With beta2 shoutcast was still working fine, no hangs when stopping a stream.

boba

[amet]

how 'bout that log?

[User 29008]

amet, sorry maybe tomorrow, need xbmc right now, gf gets angry ;-) so I am back to beta2 for now. should be esay to reproduce for you. I had a clean install, todays svn dharma-branch. installed shoutcast plugin, play a stream, stop it ... see if you experience the same.

boba