[Announce] Squeezelite-X

[stevens_pete]

Great stuff Greg - Wouldn't update from Windows Store - but found the OneDrive link in one of the earlier posts - backup and working
Thanks

[Mushroom_3]

Same here - can someone give me the post number that contains the OneDrive link, (One on 1st page doesn't work for me).
Thanks

[Mushroom_3]

Sorry - ignore the above. I've found the OneDrive link and all good now re-installed.

Thank you Greg so much for your efforts.

[rgdawson]

Sorry everyone that was impacted. My update, submitted to the MS Store, was processed as of around 10:38am Mountain Time this today, so we should be good there. Also, if switching between the traditional installer and the Store App, I recommend uninstalling one before installing the other. They are not aware of each other and you don't want both installed at the same time.


R Greg Dawson

[bondsc]

>> I found out, that using Squeezelite-X sometimes it needs a connection to Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

mherger pointed out that Akamai is a CDN, but also if you lookup "crl.microsoft.com" (where all Certificate Revocation Lookups for Microsoft certificates are sent to), you'll see that it actually goes to xxxx.akamai.net.
So anytime a Microsoft certificate is checked for revocation (i.e. to confirm it hasn't been revoked), there will be a query to Akamai. These responses are then stored in a cache with a validity timeout, so the OS won't query again for days/weeks.
This would explain what you've reported: An occasional requirement for a communication to Akamai.

Type the following at a command-prompt, and you'll see what I mean:

nslookup crl.microsoft.com

[bondsc]

Does Squeezelite-X lock / gets exclusive access to any audio device it is using (on Windows)? I ask because, while I mainly use hardware players, I run SLX on a few Windows PCs and I've noticed that if I try and use the same audio device (usually headphones) from some other application (e.g. web browser) then I often have trouble getting the audio to work (silence) and often have to unplug / replug devices. When I then wish to continue playing music in SLX, it typically then doesn't play (silence again) and I have to edit the SLX settings to change to another audio device, apply, and then switch back to my headphones.
It's not that big an issue - I typically use one set of headphones for music (SLX) and the built-in audio speakers for web browsing - but I was just wondering if this behaviour was expected...

[Adrian-AU]

Anyone else seeing this when launching app ...

[bonze]

Anyone else seeing this when launching app ...

Yes, getting the same message version 2.11.48

[rgdawson]

Anyone else seeing this when launching app ...

That is an error, my fault (accidently commented out a certain compiler switch). 2.11.49 (available now) fixes this error.

R Greg Dawson

[tw99]

I'm on 2.11.48 on latest Windows 10, and for the past few weeks, I've noticed that Squeezelite-X has become a lot more flaky about dealing with Windows sleep/wakeup events. In particular, on wakeup I've seen it produce a mostly black window with what looks like a shrunken version of the contents in it, or just sit on the Squeezelite-X settings screen with a spinner going. The only fix is to kill the app off via Task Manager and restart it.

I realise you will now ask for a screenshot, which I don't currently have, but will provide next time I see it. Is anyone else having these issues?

[bondsc]

I'm on 2.11.48 on latest Windows 10, and for the past few weeks, I've noticed that Squeezelite-X has become a lot more flaky about dealing with Windows sleep/wakeup events. In particular, on wakeup I've seen it produce a mostly black window with what looks like a shrunken version of the contents in it, or just sit on the Squeezelite-X settings screen with a spinner going. The only fix is to kill the app off via Task Manager and restart it.

I realise you will now ask for a screenshot, which I don't currently have, but will provide next time I see it. Is anyone else having these issues?

Yes, I have this problem.
I've only recently started sleeping my laptop at night (when I finally realised how much it costs to leave it on) and I've had SLX do this 3 or 4 times now. I hadn't actually realised that it was sleep causing it, but it makes sense since I've never had the problem before.

[rgdawson]

I'm on 2.11.48 on latest Windows 10, and for the past few weeks, I've noticed that Squeezelite-X has become a lot more flaky about dealing with Windows sleep/wakeup events. In particular, on wakeup I've seen it produce a mostly black window with what looks like a shrunken version of the contents in it, or just sit on the Squeezelite-X settings screen with a spinner going. The only fix is to kill the app off via Task Manager and restart it.

I realise you will now ask for a screenshot, which I don't currently have, but will provide next time I see it. Is anyone else having these issues?

Thank you for letting me know, I'll run some tests and see if I can reproduce.

Also, update to .49 if you can. It won't fix this problem but it does fix the error reported above.

Greg

[tw99]

This is an example of it failing to work on being woken up. In this case I could close it with the "Exit" option on the tray icon. This was probably on .48 but now it seems to be running .49

[bondsc]

This is an example of it failing to work on being woken up. In this case I could close it with the "Exit" option on the tray icon. This was probably on .48 but now it seems to be running .49

I had it again this morning (again after a sleep). The app shows in the tasktray, there is a yellow warning triangle, but I cannot get the window to open - it appears blank. Right clicking the app in the tasktray and choosing close will close it fine and it immediately works when you re-launch it.

I'm on Windows 11. It isn't an obvious resource issue (I'm using 25GB out of 64GB RAM and every other apps is running fine, as does SLX when I relaunch it).

Here's a screenshot of the app in the tasktray. You can see that the preview window is completely white:



If I click on the app to view the window, the SLX window is completely white:

[bondsc]

I had it again this morning (again after a sleep). The app shows in the tasktray, there is a yellow warning triangle, but I cannot get the window to open - it appears blank. Right clicking the app in the tasktray and choosing close will close it fine and it immediately works when you re-launch it.

I'm on .47
(the work PC locks down the Windows Store so I periodically update the software manually)