Swedish radio and archived programs

[tapper2]

Hi!

Bought a squeezebox boom and I was very happy when I was able to not only listen to the "normal" canals on swedish radio but also to the archived material. All I had to do was to copy a url and add it to favorites in mysqueezebox.com. Then I could listen to the latest brodcast of a program without starting the computer. But last week it stopped working, I know get a error message "can't connect to server".

I'm not allowed to post urls, I try to send them in next message

Tomas

[tapper2]

I do know that I just clicked on an url for program, like "http://www.sr.se/webbradio/?id=1307&type=latestbroadcast&isBlock=1"
WhenUnfortunatly I've messed up the urls I saved when trying to make it work again so I'm not sure how the exactly looked like.
media player started I looked at properties and copied location.
Now location says "http://www.sr.se/topsy/ljudfil/2101985.asx?posttitle=Del+1+av+1" but I'm quite sure it looked different last week, more like "http://www.sr.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?type=latestbroadcast&Id=1307&Broadca stDate=&IsBlock=1"

Do someone recognize the problem? I sent a mail to swedish radio but haven't received any answer yet.

Best regards
Tomas Ward

[tapper2]

Talked to Logicechs swedish support and they confirmed that other users had similar problems. They assumed that swedish radio, sr, had made some changes. Also received a mail from Swedish Radio that confirmed that they had made some changes a couple of weeks ago. According to them it shouldn't affect how they stream, only the way the urls look. Received an url from sr that should work, http://www.sr.se/webbradio/?type=lat...ate=&IsBlock=1, but it doesn't work for me. Any ideas how I can find out whats wrong?

Best regards
Tomas Ward

[bernt]

http://www.sr.se/sida/artikel.aspx?P...Artikel=787720

http://www.sr.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx...321&grupp=4872

Add Poddradio to SB Server.

Go to http://www.sr.se/sida/poddradio.aspx?ProgramId=2332
Klick on Prenumerera at the Poddradio you want.
On the next page you got a url like this (P3 Nyheter)
http://www.sr.se/rssfeed/rssfeed.aspx?Poddfeed=7565
Copy that link to Server Settings > Poddsändningar > Lägg till nytt flöde.
Thats it.

[tapper2]

Hi Bernt!

Thanks for your answer. I should have been more specific about my problem.
Podcasts from swedish radio (sr) works fine, live streams (is that the correct word?) like mms://wm-live.sr.se/SR-P1-High also works fine.

Not all programs are available as podcasts but you can listen to them for 30 days in sr's archive, http://www.sr.se/sida/default.aspx?programID=2724. In the beginning of december I could do that with my squeezebox by just adding the url to favourites. If I try it now with the url I got from sr, http://www.sr.se/webbradio/?type=lat...ate=&IsBlock=1,
I get the message "Fel: spellistan är tom http://www.sr.se..........", in english that might be "Error: Playlist is empty"

Tomas

[tapper2]

I looked at the server log, wonder why I did't do that from the start

I have the following error message:

[10-01-20 23:07:55.4960] Slim::Formats::Playlists::ASX::read (71) Unable to
parse ASX playlist:
mismatched tag at line 7, column 2, byte 348 at
/<C:\Program\SQUEEZ~1\server\SQUEEZ~3.EXE>XML/Parser.pm line 187
<ASX version="3.0">
<PARAM Name="encoding" Value="utf-8" />
<ENTRY>
<TITLE>Radioföljetongen: Gl�djestranden Del 1 av 1</TITLE>
<ABSTRACT>Av Ellen Mattsson i upplÃ?sning av Eva Hermansson. Del 25 av 25.
SÃ?nds Ã?ven kl. 19.35.</ABSTRACT>
<REF HREF=
"mms://lyssna-wm.sr.se/P1/Radiofoljetongen/2010/01/SRP1_2010-01-13_113459_1502_w96.wma">
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

When I capture traffic to my computer the packet looks like:

<ASX version="3.0">
<Param Name="encoding" Value="utf-8" />
<Entry>
<TITLE>Radiofljetongen: Gldjestranden Del 1 av 1</TITLE>
<ABSTRACT>Av Ellen Mattsson i upplsning av Eva Hermansson. Del 25 av 25.
Snds ven kl. 19.35.</ABSTRACT>
<ref HREF=
"mms://lyssna-wm.sr.se/P1/Radiofoljetongen/2010/01/SRP1_2010-01-13_113459_1502_w96.wma">
</Entry>
</ASX>

Seems to me like it's some sort of syntaxproblem. Can someone tell me whats wrong?

Best regards
Tomas

[tapper2]

Googled on asx & syntax and found the following link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms910286.aspx

There is an example of asx syntax:

<ASX VERSION="3.0">
<ENTRY>
<TITLE>Example Clip</TITLE>
<REF HREF="mms://example.microsoft.com/selection1.asf" />
<REF HREF="mms://example.microsoft.com/mirror/selection1.asf" />
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

As you can see there is no "/" ending the line starting with "<REF HREF" from swedish radio. Could that be the problem? Is there any easy way to verify it?

Best regards
Tomas

[bpa]

I checked another item (see below) and the same error is made. SBS is parsing the ASX as XML and is looking for a "/" and so the error log of SBS identified the next "/" which belongs to "</Entry>" and so there is a syntax error.

[10-01-23 22:06:42.6110] Slim::Formats::Playlists::ASX::read (71) Unable to parse ASX playlist:
mismatched tag at line 7, column 2, byte 814 at /home/SBS/repos/7.5/trunk/server/CPAN/XML/Parser.pm line 187

This a bug by SR and they should correct it. I have seen this sort of problem before and an e-mail to the station usually gets it fixed.

What happens is that proper XML parsing and XML generation is processor intensive so a lot of implementations generate the ASX file by hand using a boilerplate ASX string with a special place for the URL. It looks like the boilerplate has lost a " " and a "/" in some edit.

Strictly speaking, I think there is a second syntax error in that there should not be a space after "HREF=" and before quotation mark.

Furthermore, many playing devices also don't parse the ASX playlist properly - they just look for 'HREF="' and take the URL to be any text between the quotation marks. So many devices will be able to handle this ASX playlist because they do not parse it rigourously.

<ASX version="3.0">
<Param Name="encoding" Value="utf-8" />
<Entry>
<TITLE>Dokumentärredaktionen:  "Mera brännvin"</TITLE>
<ABSTRACT>? Ett program om musikern och provokatören Errol Norstedt, alias Eddie Meduza. En berättelse om musikern och provokatören Errol Norstedt, som på 1970 och 80-talet blev mer känd under pseudonymerna Eddie Meduza och E. Hitler. Errol dog 2002 vid 53 års ålder efter en minst sagt krokig väg i underhållnings-branschen. Vi hör också hans egen röst i form av musik och annat utgivet material, från tidigare intervjuer och från hans egna bandupptagningar, funna efter hans död. En dokumentär av Bo Sjökvist. Sänds även 23/1 kl. 20.03 och 1/2 kl. 00.03. </ABSTRACT>
<ref HREF= "mms://lyssna-wm.sr.se/Autorec/P1/Dokumentar/SRP1_2010-01-16_140259_3422_w4.w4.wma">
</Entry>
</ASX>

[tapper2]

Thanks bpa!

Forwarded this information to SR. Got an answer today, they very much appreciated our help troubleshooting their website

A new website is launched in mars and hopefully they make it right then.

Best regards
Tomas