BBC radio streams not working

[simoncn]

(19-02-2015 16:00)Redhanded Wrote:  Cool - I'll try this out later.

Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere, but if MinimServer with MinimStreamer 0.5.2 is installed already, how do you upgrade MinimStreamer?

Does it mean downloading the latest version of MinimServer and reinstalling it?

You don't need to download MinimServer again. There are three ways to do this:

1) If you have .autoUpdate enabled (the default), relaunching MinimServer (not Restart or Rescan) automatically updates all installed packages to the latest versions

2) If you are running MinimWatch, you will get a prompt asking you if you want to update the MinimStreamer package

3) You can check for and install updates by selecting About from the minim icon and clicking 'Show updates' in the About dialog

[Streamer]

(19-02-2015 16:17)simoncn Wrote:  

(19-02-2015 16:00)Redhanded Wrote:  Cool - I'll try this out later.

Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere, but if MinimServer with MinimStreamer 0.5.2 is installed already, how do you upgrade MinimStreamer?

Does it mean downloading the latest version of MinimServer and reinstalling it?

You don't need to download MinimServer again. There are three ways to do this:

1) If you have .autoUpdate enabled (the default), relaunching MinimServer (not Restart or Rescan) automatically updates all installed packages to the latest versions

2) If you are running MinimWatch, you will get a prompt asking you if you want to update the MinimStreamer package

3) You can check for and install updates by selecting About from the minim icon and clicking 'Show updates' in the About dialog

Hi Simon,

Latest update 0.5.3 Artwork for stations stopped working.

Log shows : Error playlist My Flac/BBC/ BBC Radio.m3u: duplicate stream ID 'R2'

Problem resolved reboot NAS

Streamer

[simoncn]

(19-02-2015 00:51)Redhanded Wrote:  Just to let you know that I've got BBC HLS streams to play on my Sonos system using minimserver. I was most impressed that it worked first time!

I did this by setting up custom radio stations on Sonos with the URL pointing at the IP address of the computer running minimserver.

I've mentioned this on the Sonos forums so you should get more users from there.

Would you like to inform users on the Sonos forum about the new page at http://minimradio.com? I think the steps described there would probably be applicable to Sonos as well. Thanks!

[Redhanded]

(19-02-2015 18:33)simoncn Wrote:  Would you like to inform users on the Sonos forum about the new page at http://minimradio.com? I think the steps described there would probably be applicable to Sonos as well. Thanks!

Unfortunately I couldn't get this to work.

I created the file mentioned on the minim radio page but when I created a Sonos Radio station with URL http://10.0.1.41:9790/minimstreamer/*/R2 the Sonos controller gave the error, unable to play, station not found.

The minimserver debug logs had the following:
20:30:10.662 Thread-522: HTTPService: accepted incoming connection
20:30:10.663 Thread-522: HTTPService: waiting for incoming connection
20:30:10.664 Thread-521: HTTPService: received request, Socket[addr=/10.0.1.7,port=4192,localport=9790]
20:30:10.664 Thread-521: HTTPService: adding connection org.jminim.lib.HTTPConnection@4eb2eb9e
20:30:10.667 Thread-662: HTTPConnection: reading HTTP request
20:30:10.668 Thread-662: GET /minimstreamer/*/R2 HTTP/1.1
20:30:10.668 Thread-662: CONNECTION: close, ACCEPT: */*, Host: 10.0.1.41:9790, USER-AGENT: Sonos
20:30:10.668 Thread-662: HTTPConnection: reading HTTP request
20:30:10.684 Thread-661: HTTPConnection: writer thread processing request
20:30:10.685 Thread-661: Streamer: processing HTTP request
20:30:10.685 Thread-661: Streamer: releaseChains
20:30:10.685 Thread-661: Streamer: streamID is R2
sending HTTP response '404 Not Found: Unknown stream identifier 'R2'' to request 'GET /minimstreamer/*/R2'
20:30:10.686 Thread-661: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found, Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:30:10 GMT, Connection: close, Content-Length: 30, Content-Type: text/plain
20:30:10.687 Thread-661: HTTPConnection: completed request; socket=Socket[addr=/10.0.1.7,port=4192,localport=9790], keepAlive=false
20:30:10.687 Thread-661: HTTPConnection: closing Socket[addr=/10.0.1.7,port=4192,localport=9790]
20:30:10.688 Thread-661: HTTPService: removing connection org.jminim.lib.HTTPConnection@4eb2eb9e
20:30:10.689 Thread-662: HTTPConnection: connection closed by client

so it doesn't seem to be able to find the entry in the BBC Radio.m3u file which is:

#EXTINF:-1,[*R2] BBC Radio 2
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/man...o_two.m3u8

[withanee]

I'm having a similar problem to redhanded, with minimserver installed on a ReadyNAS DuoV2 and trying to play to my Sonos system. All the minim parts appear to be installed correctly and running, but I also get an error from my Sonos controller, station not found.

As an example, my custom radio station URL in Sonos is:
http://192.168.1.11:9790/minimstreamer/*/R3

and the error log says:
MinimServer[NAS_A] is running
HTTPSource: unknown host for URL http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/man...three.m3u8
This is repeated several times before presumably giving up.

PS. I am using your sample BBC Radio.m3u file that is linked from your Internet radio how-to guide.

Any suggestions as to what I might have done wrong?

[Cebolla]

(19-02-2015 15:11)simoncn Wrote:  

(18-02-2015 22:47)Cebolla Wrote:  

(18-02-2015 21:59)simoncn Wrote:  You should be able to do this by setting a stream type of 'aac' for the BBC streams in their playlist entries. This will exclude these streams from '*' transcoding.

I already have the 'aac' stream type set for the streams in the BBC playlist otherwise I can't get my Pioneer & Denon streamers to work, if you remember. Not sure why they change to the '*' transcoding when I add the '*' input type in that case. I only have that '*:wav' transcoding spec in stream.transcode, BTW.

I have fixed this in MinimStreamer 0.5.3. It should now work the way you (and I) were expecting, with the * transcoding input type only used for streams that don't have a stream type specified.

Certainly works, many thanks Simon. Excellent support as ever!

[simoncn]

(19-02-2015 21:44)Redhanded Wrote:  Unfortunately I couldn't get this to work.

I created the file mentioned on the minim radio page but when I created a Sonos Radio station with URL http://10.0.1.41:9790/minimstreamer/*/R2 the Sonos controller gave the error, unable to play, station not found.

......

so it doesn't seem to be able to find the entry in the BBC Radio.m3u file which is:

#EXTINF:-1,[*R2] BBC Radio 2
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/man...o_two.m3u8

Did you do a MinimServer rescan after creating the new file? This is required to pick up any changes to playlists.

[Pastim]

I have tried the new format URL. Both my players use the vtuner website for radio sources.

On my Marantz M-CR603 player it gave garbled sound until I added /$!stream.aac after .....R3 . I had no transcode for an unspecified type, but did, from previous tests, have aac:wav. So that works, and is an option you may want to mention on minimradio.

On my Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC I used to get 'server error' with the long URL, but now get 'file format error'. I tried with and without /$!stream.aac . This player does work with the UPnP playlist item R3, but I guess that's a different bit of protocol handling in the player. Any thoughts?

I assume it doesn't matter that my m3u file is called BBC_Radio.m3u (I'm allergic to spaces)?

I shall mention minimradio on the BBC website.

Thanks a lot.

[simoncn]

(19-02-2015 22:24)withanee Wrote:  I'm having a similar problem to redhanded, with minimserver installed on a ReadyNAS DuoV2 and trying to play to my Sonos system. All the minim parts appear to be installed correctly and running, but I also get an error from my Sonos controller, station not found.

As an example, my custom radio station URL in Sonos is:
http://192.168.1.11:9790/minimstreamer/*/R3

and the error log says:
MinimServer[NAS_A] is running
HTTPSource: unknown host for URL http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/man...three.m3u8
This is repeated several times before presumably giving up.

PS. I am using your sample BBC Radio.m3u file that is linked from your Internet radio how-to guide.

Any suggestions as to what I might have done wrong?

The "unknown host" error means that your NAS can't contact the BBC server. Do you have a firewall on your NAS or router that is blocking this connection?

One other possibility: are you located in the UK? This stream is for UK users only.

[withanee]

(19-02-2015 23:26)simoncn Wrote:  

(19-02-2015 22:24)withanee Wrote:  I'm having a similar problem to redhanded, with minimserver installed on a ReadyNAS DuoV2 and trying to play to my Sonos system. All the minim parts appear to be installed correctly and running, but I also get an error from my Sonos controller, station not found.

As an example, my custom radio station URL in Sonos is:
http://192.168.1.11:9790/minimstreamer/*/R3

and the error log says:
MinimServer[NAS_A] is running
HTTPSource: unknown host for URL http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/man...three.m3u8
This is repeated several times before presumably giving up.

PS. I am using your sample BBC Radio.m3u file that is linked from your Internet radio how-to guide.

Any suggestions as to what I might have done wrong?

The "unknown host" error means that your NAS can't contact the BBC server. Do you have a firewall on your NAS or router that is blocking this connection?

One other possibility: are you located in the UK? This stream is for UK users only.

Thanks for the speedy reply Simon. Yes, I'm in the UK. I don't believe my router is blocking the connection as I can stream from the same URL via VLC player on my PC. As for whether the ReadyNAS has a firewall, I don't know, and will have to investigate. I can't recall seeing any settings for one in the Dashboard.