DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify

[castalla]

Thanks ...

Spotify is using dsound.dll + lame_enc.dll - from files in roaming Spotify (although there is another dsound.dll in win32). The only flash dll I can track is in /flash named NPSWF32.dll

???

[Vicke]

Dear Forum,

I seem to have a simular problem as Castalla. Updated avast (now version 7.0.1426) the other day and then DSBridge wouldn't work. Before it all was working fine.

The sympton is the following:
Right after Windows (Vista SP2)and Avast starts, the red icon from DSBridge shows up, with fault message could not load lame_enc.dll. (Avast seems to be using both dsound.dll in the Flash folder and dsound.dll in system32 folder.)

If I try to start Spotify now another red icon shows up with the fault message could not bind to port 8124. (Also spotify seems to be using both dsound.dll in the Flash folder and dsound.dll in system32 folder.)

After reading the thread here I tried to solve the problem by deleting dsbridge.ini, dsound.dll and lame_enc.dll from the flash folder (only leaving them in the spotify folder), unfortunately without any good result I found a strange work around.

If I rename the files (dsbridge.ini, dsound.dll and lame_enc.dll) in the Flash folder to (dsbridge.iniold, dsound.dllold and lame_enc.dllold) and then restart windows, Avast starts without starting DSBridge (No red icon shows up). If I then change the name back to the original names in the Flash folder and start Spotify - Spotify and DSBridge works just as it did before the update of Avast and I can stream music.

Can anybody explain this? or even better find a way which makes it work without all this hassle.

Thanks in advance!

[TheLastMan]

Can anybody explain this? or even better find a way which makes it work without all this hassle.

Thanks in advance!

A possible reason for the problem is that Avast somehow uses Flash and the presence of DSbridge files in the Flash folder confuses it.

One thing an AV program does is check for changes in critical folders. In your position I would try the following:
1. Remove the DSbridge files from the Flash folder
2. Uninstall Avast
3. Reboot (to make sure Registry entries for Avast are all uninstalled properly)
4. Put the DSbridge files back in the Flash folder (and of course the Spotify folder)
5. Reinstall Avast

That way all the changes to the Flash folder take place before Avast is installed.

If that does not work, I would be very tempted just to uninstall Avast and try a different AV program.

Avast may be free, but the latest version is a terrible resource hog. I have had to remove it from about five PCs around my family circle that I had installed it on about three years ago (when it was a simpler program). This is because it was bringing them all to a grinding halt.

Once Avast was removed everything was fine and dandy. So far I have failed to find a decent "light" alternative to Avast, but because all the PCs sit behind NAT router based firewalls and the e-mail is pre-scanned with AV software at the ISP end before delivery, the risk of virus infection is negligible. Spyware is taken care of with Windows Defender, and Thunderbird deals with spam and "phishing" e-mails pretty well.

The only time that you are significantly at risk of a virus infection or hack attack that needs a software solution is when you are using a laptop in a public environment such as a wi-fi hot spot or when you are collecting your e-mail from a provider that does not pre-scan for viruses.

[castalla]

Dear Forum,

I seem to have a simular problem as Castalla. Updated avast (now version 7.0.1426) the other day and then DSBridge wouldn't work. Before it all was working fine.

The sympton is the following:
Right after Windows (Vista SP2)and Avast starts, the red icon from DSBridge shows up, with fault message could not load lame_enc.dll. (Avast seems to be using both dsound.dll in the Flash folder and dsound.dll in system32 folder.)

If I try to start Spotify now another red icon shows up with the fault message could not bind to port 8124. (Also spotify seems to be using both dsound.dll in the Flash folder and dsound.dll in system32 folder.)

After reading the thread here I tried to solve the problem by deleting dsbridge.ini, dsound.dll and lame_enc.dll from the flash folder (only leaving them in the spotify folder), unfortunately without any good result I found a strange work around.

If I rename the files (dsbridge.ini, dsound.dll and lame_enc.dll) in the Flash folder to (dsbridge.iniold, dsound.dllold and lame_enc.dllold) and then restart windows, Avast starts without starting DSBridge (No red icon shows up). If I then change the name back to the original names in the Flash folder and start Spotify - Spotify and DSBridge works just as it did before the update of Avast and I can stream music.

Can anybody explain this? or even better find a way which makes it work without all this hassle.

Thanks in advance!

If it works, why wrangle with it??? Just accept there's some strange anomaly!

I like Avast especially because it provides web-page protection - had a few pages containing malware get trapped by Avast.

[Vicke]

One thing an AV program does is check for changes in critical folders. In your position I would try the following:
1. Remove the DSbridge files from the Flash folder
2. Uninstall Avast
3. Reboot (to make sure Registry entries for Avast are all uninstalled properly)
4. Put the DSbridge files back in the Flash folder (and of course the Spotify folder)
5. Reinstall Avast

Tried the above without any change or improvment to before...

So now it's tempting to get rid of Avast for an easy fix!

Any other ideas?

[Vicke]

If it works, why wrangle with it??? Just accept there's some strange anomaly!

Renaming the 3 files in the Flash folder everytime I start and before I quite windows is no long term solution for me.

[oyvine]

New release to fix some issues with minimized and hidden windows:

http://dsbridge.googlecode.com/files...090705-bin.zip
...
Christian Fredrik, luckily you are mistaken . My solution is pure software and does not degrade the audio stream other than the transcoding to MP3 - when I get FLAC encoding implemented (yes, it's coming...) there will be no difference at all.

Hi,
sorry to bring back such an old topic, but did you ever get FLAC to work with DSBridge? I guess a lot of folks would be really interested in such a solution.

regards,
Øyvin

[parasol]

I stream Spotify to my roku player from my laptop using dsbridge, but sometimes I would just like to listen to Spotify on my laptop speakers without streaming it. However, I haven't found a way to temporarily stop dsbridge. Does anyone know how to do this? It doesn't show up on Windows task manager, as far as I can tell. Any help would be appreciated!

[jimbobvfr400]

On mine if I stop playing the radio station on my Squeezebox then playback reverts to the PC automagicically. This is the same behaviour on my old Roku Sound bridge as well.

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[alavarre1]

[QUOTE=chp;432858]I thought I'd share the fruits of my labour here... I have written a small drop-in wrapper utility that will allow you to stream among other things Spotify (anything that uses the first DirectSound API basically) as MP3 (with metadata).

Surely, you are a genius. Well done.

You already know this, but just for your resumé:

I did this in a heartbeat under Windows XP Pro under a Virtualbox under openSUSE 12.2.

Details at

http://genietvanhetleven.blogspot.co...boxserver.html

Thank you so much.

Absolutely brilliant.

Well done.

Cheers, Andy