cant get m3u playlists with stream URLs anymore...

[mtakacs]

super short version:

Anyone know what might have changed that my "play album" request is now generating zips of mp3 instead of generating a m3u playlist with streams?

(full details in next post)

-Mark

[mtakacs]

Problem Description: i used to get m3u files that referenced streams,now I get zips of mp3 files
Troubleshooting Steps: see below
Playback Application and version: VLC 1.1.8
Subsonic Version: 4.4 (build 2169) – February 6, 2011
Server Version: jetty-6.1.x, java 1.6.0_20, Linux (120.3 MB / 189.6 MB)
Hardware Platform: readyNAS plugin, Released by Super-Poussin v2.0.00
Output from ffmpeg -i:

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FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar 20 2011 21:32:23 with gcc 4.3.2
  configuration: --enable-pthreads --disable-shared --enable-static --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame
  libavutil     50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0
  libavcore      0.16. 1 /  0.16. 1
  libavcodec    52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0
  libavformat   52.93. 0 / 52.93. 0
  libavdevice   52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3
  libavfilter    1.74. 0 /  1.74. 0
  libswscale     0.12. 0 /  0.12. 0

Hello,
Loving my subsonic installation. After upgrading to 4.4 the other day, the behavior of my player has changed.

my previously experience

* I'd go to the subsonic webinterface
* click one of the albums on the homepage
* click "play all"
* which would trigger my "vlc" player profile
* This seemed like it would download a play-01.m3u file
* my mac launched VLC
* VLC opened the streams

These files contained stuff that looked like:

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#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:187,Toby Keith - She's A Hottie
http://192.168.1.15:4040/stream?player=4&pathUtf8Hex=2f632.....7033&suffix=.mp3
#EXTINF:240,Carrie Underwood - Last Name
http://192.168.1.15:4040/stream?player=4&pathUtf8Hex=2f632f6d6......6d7033&suffix=.mp3
...


I cant seem to get subsonic to generate those downloads anymore. It keeps trying to

a) download as a playlist t and resolve all the references into the actual MP3 files, generating a ZIP file containing mp3s (not what I want)

b) plays in the browser (not what I want)

When I look at the last seen player settings, they show up as:

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Type    QuickTime/7.6.6 (qtver=7.6.6;cpu=IA32;os=Mac 10.6.7)
Last seen   April 9, 2011 1:17:11 PM


which is NOT what I want, that seems to subsonic trying to hand off to quicktime, not VLC.


I've tried to reconfigure the player in different ways:

web / external / external+playlist / juekbox

but I cant seem to get it right. My best guess as to how it should be configured is:

* external player
* cover art: medium
* max bitrate : no limit
* player has dynamic IP: checked
* control player automically: checked
* active transcodings: (all, default)

I dont want to broadcast to a player, Id like it to go back to generating a playlist that will allow my player to connect. (when I use the old playlists that got downloaded to my Downloads dir, they works fine)

log after using a stream url of - http://192.168.1.15:4040/stream?

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[4/9/11 1:42:31 PM PDT]   INFO   StreamController   Got range: Range[0,9223372036854775807]
[4/9/11 1:42:31 PM PDT]   INFO   PlaylistInputStream   admin listening to "Part II [2001]/02 I'm Gonna Miss Her.mp3"


any idea what I might have to do in order to get back to having subsonic hand me stream playlists that I can use in VLC?

or if I do have to subscribe to a stream, where can I get the URL (mUrl?) of the stream so I can put it into VLC's "play network stream"

or am I fundamentally misunderstanding the model of how I'm supposed to listen to my music thru subSonic?

-Mark

[tox]

same problem here :'(

[GJ51]

When you select external player with playlist SS hands off the request to the default desktop player. Is it possible that a quicktime update redefined the default player?

[mtakacs]

oddly enough, if I access Subsonic using MacOS Safari, the selected playlist / album does indeed trigger VLC with a list of streaming URLs. I am happy.

If I access Subsonic using MacOS Chrome, I get the unexpected behavior described above. I am sad.

I'm not sure why Chrome would behave so badly, but since I have a workaround (use Safari for launching my albums / playlist), I'm ok. Not entirely sure what might have happened tho.