One particular flac file random corruption with 1 player - need a better renderer

[pootle]

Just found minimserver a couple of days and is looking very nice indeed, having to seriously re-tag all my music now, so only about 15 albums in library. But I have found 1 track that randomly gets very screwed up using rygel playbin as the renderer. The rest of the album (and all the other music I have so far played) is fine.

Anyone recommed a good renderer, or even control point and renderer to run on ubuntu / debian? (gapless would be nice too )

The track plays OK on an android handset.

here's a trace of the android handset starting up:

Code:

13:32:47.039 Thread-276: GET /minimserver/*/audio/J*20S*20Bach/Goldberg*20Variations/*20-*2001*20-*20Aria.flac HTTP/1.1
13:32:47.039 Thread-276: Host: 192.168.1.211:9790, Connection: keep-alive, User-Agent: stagefright/1.2 (Linux;Android 4.1.2), Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate, Accept: */*
13:32:47.039 Thread-276: HTTPConnection: reading HTTP request
13:32:47.040 Thread-275: HTTPConnection: writer thread processing request
13:32:47.042 Thread-275: HTTP/1.1 200 OK, Accept-Ranges: bytes, Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:32:47 GMT, Content-Length: 11413971, Content-Type: audio/x-flac, Connection: keep-alive, Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:22:58 GMT
13:32:47.042 Thread-275: writing data: total=11413971 from file J S Bach/Goldberg Variations/ - 01 - Aria.flac

and here's the rygel client starting up:

Code:

13:39:22.099 Thread-344: GET /minimserver/*/audio/J*20S*20Bach/Goldberg*20Variations/*20-*2001*20-*20Aria.flac HTTP/1.1
13:39:22.099 Thread-344: Host: 192.168.1.211:9790, Connection: close, icy-metadata: 1, User-Agent: GStreamer souphttpsrc libsoup/2.44.2
13:39:22.099 Thread-343: HTTPConnection: writer thread processing request
13:39:22.100 Thread-344: HTTPConnection: reading HTTP request
13:39:22.104 Thread-343: HTTP/1.1 200 OK, Accept-Ranges: bytes, Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:39:22 GMT, Content-Length: 11413971, Content-Type: audio/x-flac, Connection: close, Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:22:58 GMT
13:39:22.104 Thread-343: writing data: total=11413971 from file J S Bach/Goldberg Variations/ - 01 - Aria.flac

[pootle]

I've tried Rythymbox now as well and it breaks as well - although the corruption is rather different and not as totally disasterous. It is using the same underlying libraries as Rygel it would seem... It is otherwise a hopeless client though as it can only find music by searching.

Code:

14:18:07.283 Thread-446: GET /minimserver/*/audio/J*20S*20Bach/Goldberg*20Variations/*20-*2001*20-*20Aria.flac HTTP/1.1
14:18:07.283 Thread-446: Host: 192.168.1.211:9790, Connection: close, icy-metadata: 1, User-Agent: GStreamer souphttpsrc libsoup/2.44.2
14:18:07.283 Thread-446: HTTPConnection: reading HTTP request
14:18:07.283 Thread-445: HTTPConnection: writer thread processing request
14:18:07.284 Thread-445: HTTP/1.1 200 OK, Accept-Ranges: bytes, Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:18:07 GMT, Content-Length: 11413971, Content-Type: audio/x-flac, Connection: close, Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:22:58 GMT
14:18:07.284 Thread-445: writing data: total=11413971 from file J S Bach/Goldberg Variations/ - 01 - Aria.flac
14:18:07.284 Thread-445: writing 16384 bytes: total=11413971
14:18:07.284 Thread-445: writing 16384 bytes: total=11413971

[simoncn]

(16-11-2014 15:22)pootle Wrote:  I've tried Rythymbox now as well and it breaks as well - although the corruption is rather different and not as totally disasterous. It is using the same underlying libraries as Rygel it would seem... It is otherwise a hopeless client though as it can only find music by searching.

What exactly is the problem? Is the audio playing or not? There is nothing in these log extracts that indicates a problem with MinimServer.

[pootle]

(16-11-2014 15:40)simoncn Wrote:  What exactly is the problem? Is the audio playing or not? There is nothing in these log extracts that indicates a problem with MinimServer.

The sound gets totally scrambled after a random period, rythym is just about discernable - sounds like a valve amp with a bust valve. Sometimes just starts introducing random squawks a bit like mobile phone interference.

Pretty sure the problem is in Gstreamer / libsoup, so looking for a better renderer....

[simoncn]

(16-11-2014 15:59)pootle Wrote:  The sound gets totally scrambled after a random period, rythym is just about discernable - sounds like a valve amp with a bust valve. Sometimes just starts introducing random squawks a bit like mobile phone interference.

Pretty sure the problem is in Gstreamer / libsoup, so looking for a better renderer....

This post might be useful.

[pootle]

(16-11-2014 16:16)simoncn Wrote:  This post might be useful.

Ah yes, was already looking at upplay for control, but looks like mpd + upmpdcli is the answer, no problems with the problem flac file, so giving it a good run now.

Thanks for your help