Problem with remote streaming in 7.2.1

[johnl]

I'm having trouble with remote streaming in 7.2.1. I know there were some recent problems with streaming in 7.2.1. So I downloaded and installed the version of 7.2.1 posted at http://downloads.slimdevices.com/SqueezeCenter_v7.2.1/ - that didn't fix my problem. I also tried the nightly build at http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/latest/7.2/ with no luck. I did not try 7.3. The problem is evident with every media player I've tried.

The problem is that when I connect to the http://server:9000/stream.mp3, I'm able to connect....but I never get any sound. None! It doesn't matter if I'm accessing the stream remotely or locally.

For kicks, I took a wireshark capture and what I found is that the server's stream to me an infinite stream of 0x55 (UU) characters after an initially promising 200 OK response.

I looked at the SC log files and found no interesting entries.

That's about as far as I got....and since I'm a very new user of this software, I thought at this point I'd ask for some help.

Thanks,
JohnL

[radish]

Are you actually playing anything? Stream.mp3 will play silence until you setup a playlist etc, same as a regular player.

[johnl]

Are you actually playing anything? Stream.mp3 will play silence until you setup a playlist etc, same as a regular player.

Radish - Thanks for the reply. Yes, I am playing a playlist.

But, your question got me thinking.....so I compared a wireshark trace of a request to stream.mp3 when SC is playing and one to stream.mp3 when SC is not playing. Guess what? The traces, and notably the response back from the server, are identical. That is, in both cases, all that the server sends is a stream of 0x55 (U's). Interesting that there's no difference in the stream in these two cases.

[johnl]

Oh jeez - never mind. I figured this out.

I misunderstood how stream.mp3 worked - I thought that it automatically received the same stream as that which was being sent to the squeezeboxes on my network. I read up on synchronizing software and hardware players....got squeezebox....and all's well now.

Thanks Radish - your question got me thinking in the right direction.