AlienBBC - mp3 streaming not working

[meltsheep]

Hi, AlienBBC works fine for my via the squeezebox but I can't get it to work if I connect I client like winamp the the mp3 stream at http://server:9000/mp3.

Should I expect this to work ? Can I get it to work ?

Thanks

[bevan11]

Hi,

I had this issue and it would appear that AlienBBC only supports Slim devices. This is what I got in the debug log.

openSong: URL is remote [rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra]
Trying to open protocol stream for rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra
Found handler for rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra - using Plugins::Alien::RTSP
Alien only streams to Slim players
openSong: Remote stream failed to open

Hope this helps.

Bevan.

[meltsheep]

Thanks. I saw another thread (?) on the same subject and if you look at RSTP.pm you can see there's an if statement checking the player type and returning undef if its not a squeezebox. I commented that out but still no further forward. It seems like a zero volume stream is being sent to the squeeze.

[bevan11]

I've just edited that file and all is well for me!

Have you stopped and restarted the Slim server?

[Blue_Atom]

Commenting these lines fixed it for me;

$ diff RTSP.pm RTSP.pm.orig
44,47c44,47
< # if (!defined($client) || !$client->isPlayer()) {
< # $::d_remotestream && msg "Alien only streams to Slim players\n";
< # return undef;
< # }
---
> if (!defined($client) || !$client->isPlayer()) {
> $::d_remotestream && msg "Alien only streams to Slim players\n";
> return undef;
> }