Internet Radio ... Help!!!

[medwards]

Hi all,

I've just gotten a working Subsonic 6 installation running on a Fedora 25 platform. Whilst it appears that everything is installed and working when it comes to playing the music in my library, I'm having trouble getting it to recognise and play an internet radio stream in the web player.

I've set up the stream for Planet Rock Radio using the stream: http://tx.sharp-stream.com/icecast.php?i=planetrock.aac however, when I save this and drop into the Internet Radio section from the UI, I'm presented with the following:



Consequently I'm unable to play the radio station. The stream URL opens fine in VLC so I'm pretty certain that's good, so I'm now at a loss. I've tested this in both the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome so I'm pretty certain it's nothing to do with the browser, and I've confirmed that the default ffmpeg installation is working by downsampling FLAC files to low-rate MP3 so that appears to also be working.

Any ideas?

[toolman]

The url doesn't play in my setup either, so it's not that your Subsonic-setup is faulty.
I haven't got a clue what to change in the url to make it work, because the website http://tx.sharp-stream.com requires a username and password to be able to listen to streaming music.
I guess your url would have to include those credentials before Subsonic can connect to it.
I tried to play the stream with VLC, but it just doesn't work on my computer.

[medwards]

Hmm ... very odd. I'll have to have a dig around on the Planet Rock web page to see if there's anything it's doing under the hood.

Shouldn't be though as it's the same URL that should be good for any old internet radio.

[And it plays on my old Squeezebox server too so, odd...]


So, digging a little more ... there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with playing the stream directly in the browser - pasting the URL into the address bar brings up an HTML5 player and the stream plays OK. However, if I try to open the internetRadioStream.view link that's shown for my Subsonic server, then I get a popup in the middle of the screen saying 'Video format or MIME type is not supported, and an error message in the console stating that the media resource could not be decoded.

Thus, I guess the question is either (a) How can I go about upgrading the instance of Flowplayer that's embedded in Subsonic to the latest version (we appear to be running v.6, whereas the latest is v.7), or how do I get it to recognise more MIME types?

[medwards]

Even curiouser ... if I duplicate the station definition (so there's now two of them showing in the list below the 'Video file not found' message, then the second one will play if I click the popout icon on the right (the first one in the list doesn't activate the poput icon).