Something seriously wrong with Squeezelite.

[davem]

Hi,

For the last couple of years I have an issue with squeezelite where it wouldnt play mp3's. It has been sh1tting me enough that I just rebuilt my system today. Absolute green install of latest ubuntu and snakeoil. I enabled a few plugins and life was good until I tried to play a mp3 again.....I also installed ffmpeg (just in case..). The MP3's work fine with SB hardware players and also with mpd as a player. I have tried all the squeezelite versions with the same result. This used to work.

Looking at the forums, it seems that I am not alone in both this problem and problems with squeezelite playing in general. See;
https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/Threa...o-play-MP3
https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/Threa...ot-Playing
https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/Threa...queezelite
https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/Threa...ite-in-1-3
https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/Threa...ite-in-1-3
https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/Threa...squeezlite

Any suggestions on what to do to fix this ?

[Coacharnold]

Hope this gets us all together.  I don't have a ton of MP#s mostly flacs,  but this issue comes up enough it drives me wonky ...


Tim

[davem]

Some time ago, I installed a fresh version of snakeoil on to an old laptop that I have...& I am certain that I was able to get mp3's working. It made me think that perhaps there was some conflict with a plugin that I enabled.... So I did another clean install and much to my surprise, straight out of the box it would not work. The only thing that I did was to add 1x flac and 1x mp3 to the library.

Everytime I tried to play a mp3 it would crash the player. And the flac played fine everytime to a USB DAC (maybe I should try ALSA)....Edit: Well I just tried the analog output. Although I didnt actually hear anything, the flac file 'played' correctly and as soon as I selected the mp3 file, the player crashed.Nothing in the server.log file.

I tried updating LMS to 8.5.1 with the same result.

Like Tim above, I mostly have flac files with a smattering of mp3's in my library. But the wife/kids dont understand (or know) and its so frustrating and painful when it crashes. Luckily it hasnt happened while I have been travelling for work.

Open to any suggestions here, as I am now pretty much out of my depth.

[hkphantomgtr]

Will this solve your mp3 problem？

Code:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

[davem]

Will this solve your mp3 problem？

Code:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Unfortunately no. Have tried this in the past unsuccessfully. I reinstalled again on my test laptop - this time the only deviation from default was select that sshd be installed during the process. That's it.. just installed ffmpeg and no change.

Yesterday I tried both USB & analog output in case that was the trigger.

Edit: Out of interest I converted a mp3 to ogg and it plays fine. At least that is a potential workaround.

[agent_kith]

Can you send me a copy of MP3 to my email? (You can find the email when you go to System -> Generate Diagnostic Log). I only have around 12 MP3 files, and the ones I have tried works. I suspect it's either VBR (Variable Bit Rate) or very high bitrate MP3s that can cause an issue.

I'm just about to embark on re-building Snakeoil for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, so can take this chance to see why your MP3 isn't work, and see if can figure out a way to resolve it. (Have converted all my day job machines to from 23.x to 24.04, and I do listen to music while working, to me 24.04 does have a lot of potential, even when I'm using stock setup).

Include in your email a link back to this forum thread (just so I don't forget what it's all about).

[Snoopy8]

I'm just about to embark on re-building Snakeoil for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, so can take this chance to see why your MP3 isn't work, and see if can figure out a way to resolve it. (Have converted all my day job machines to from 23.x to 24.04, and I do listen to music while working, to me 24.04 does have a lot of potential, even when I'm using stock setup).

​​ It is supposed to have a 6.8 low latency kernel. Nothing about real time. 

And if I build my own, the RT patch set is a version behind, so far only for 6.7...