m3u files for PS Audio Bridge II

[peter.rayner]

There are almost no periods of reasonable sound, i.e it seems to be "choppy" on scales of tenths of a second.
Here's a debug log I hope

[simoncn]

(26-01-2016 02:30)peter.rayner Wrote:  There are almost no periods of reasonable sound, i.e it seems to be "choppy" on scales of tenths of a second.
Here's a debug log I hope

Thanks for this. It looks like the problem is caused by some issue with skipping over metadata. The metadata that is skipped should be readable text but in this log it is printed as garbled characters that are presumably parts of the audio stream.

I don't know why I am not seeing this problem when I play the same stream. I will do further investigations and post back here.

[simoncn]

It turns out that I was playing the stream

http://live-radio02.mediahubaustralia.com/2FMW/aac/

which works OK. If I play the stream

http://live-radio01.mediahubaustralia.com/2FMW/aac/

then I get the same problem that you are getting.

The difference is that the live-radio01 stream is using HTTP chunked encoding and MinimStreamer isn't expecting this and doesn't allow for it. As a result, MinimStreamer gets out of sync with the correct stream position and skips metadata in the wrong places.

If you change your playlist to use the live-radio02 stream, it should work for you. I will look into adding support for chunked encoding in a future version of MinimStreamer.

Thanks very much for letting me know about this problem!

[peter.rayner]

Yep, that did it.
Thanks for the perseverance.
Indulge me one more question of curiosity.
Why does minimserver/streamer need to be involved here at all?
I thought the PS Audio Bridge was meant to handle a fair range of streams itself?
Perhaps that's a question for a PS Audio forum.
Anyway, thanks again, now onto the next problem :-)

[simoncn]

(27-01-2016 12:19)peter.rayner Wrote:  Yep, that did it.
Thanks for the perseverance.

Thanks for your perseverance as well.

Quote:Indulge me one more question of curiosity.
Why does minimserver/streamer need to be involved here at all?
I thought the PS Audio Bridge was meant to handle a fair range of streams itself?
Perhaps that's a question for a PS Audio forum.

Yes, this is a good question for the PS Audio folks. The live-radio02 stream has an HTTP content type of audio/aacp and contains AAC ADTS data in Shoutcast format with nothing unusual that I can see. Have you tried sending the live-radio02 stream directly to the PS Audio DAC?

Quote:Anyway, thanks again, now onto the next problem :-)

Shouldn't that be "now onto some good radio listening"?