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Jeff Beaird | 2 Dec 2004 01:47

Windows Media Player 10 problems

Unfortunately, I deleted previous posts about Media Player 10, so am 
starting a new thread.

I am seeing a certain amount of strangeness with .m3u files served by 
gnump3d, which I think is limited to WMP 10.  Songs play for a minute 
and a half, or so, and then WMP visualization stops and the track timer 
stops counting.  The song continues to play, however.

Also, if the .m3u file contains links to multiple tracks, clicking on a 
track other than the first one results in an "opening media" message in 
the WMP status bar, after which it freezes, and has to be killed via the 
task manager.

Nothing strange shows up in the logs.  Actually, attempts to retrieve 
subsequent tracks don't ever seem to make it to the server--nothing in 
the access or error logs.  I have been curious about the number of 410 
http status instances in my gnump3d access logs, however.

I don't know if these problems are going to be limited to files served 
by gnump3d, but I thought they were worth noting.

I'm running gnump3d 2.8 from official debian packages on debian sarge.

Thanks,
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Steve Kemp | 5 Dec 2004 15:32
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Re: Errors building cache, startup time, etc

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:52:56PM -0500, Chris Arrowood wrote:

> First, thanks again Steve, for the great software.  I love it!

  :)

> 1) In the error log, it would be nice to have a time stamp on entries. I 
> had a 7.7m error log and no clue if the errors were recent or years 
> old.  Can it use the system logger?  ...or could it be modified to 
> insert datetime for each error msg?

  Doesn't seem to be possible to wrap the 'print ..' statements to
 add a timestamp.  It will mean that I will have to use a special
 logging class to add the timestamps.  Whilst it would be nice
 it's not a priority.

> 2) I only reboot every few months. When I reboot, GNUMP3d (which starts 
> via an init script) takes several minutes to update the database, making 
> my reboot time several minutes.  I don't know if it automatically 
> rebuilds the cache every so often based on age, or if there is some 
> other reason, but is there anyway to get it to do this in the 
> background, on another thread maybe, instead of holding up the start 
> time?   ...or, is there something I can do to my init script to get it 
> to start but not hold up everything?

  You can add '--fast' to the init script to skip the rebuild, this is
 done in the Debian init.d file if the cache exists IIRC.

> 3)  When it builds the cache, I get many annoying error messages (see 
> below).
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Steve Kemp | 5 Dec 2004 15:34
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Re: Server dropping on random play selection

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:21:55PM +1300, Miller, Paul, VF-NZ wrote:

> This is similar to others in the archive. Running winxp; gnump3d2.8 ;
> activeperl5.8.4
> 
> Everytime I select random playlist I get the 10/20 tracks presented.
> When I select 'play' the playlist is downloaded, but then the server
> reports the following error message :
> 
> 	use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at <base path>
> line 515
> 	fatal error - cannot fork()
> 

  I'm guessing this is an issue with the Perl version you're using.

  fork() wasn't supported on older Perl releases, activestate added it
 and had a few problems with early releases.

  If there's a newer activestate perl out I'd recommend trying to
 upgrade.  But short of that I cannot really suggest anything useful
 all I can do is say it works for me (tm) on Windows 2000.

Steve
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darren david | 19 Dec 2004 23:50

fresh install fails on FreeBSD/Perl 5.8.5

hey all-

Just migrated from my OpenBSD machine over to a new FreeBSD 5.3 server, 
instaleld GNUMP3d and 'make test' reports:

10. Test running the installed gnump3d script. [OK]
Can't open perl script "#": No such file or directory.
Use -S to search $PATH for it.

same issue when attempting to run from the command line. worth 
mentioning that i tweaked the Makefile to install into "/usr/local" 
instead of "/usr", but i did update the config file with:

theme_directory = /usr/local/share/gnump3d/
index_program = /usr/local/bin/gnump3d-index
stats_program = /usr/local/bin/gnump3d-top

what do i need to tweak to get back in action?

thanks in advance,
darren david
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peterg | 20 Dec 2004 15:00

Need UserAgent information

Dear List, 

I'm running a copy of GNUMP3d on a wirelessly-enabled web server (it's
a long story) and wonder if anyone has tried to access a server via a
PDA ?  I'm trying to set up my copy so that it's user-friendly to both
laptop users and PDA users. Obviously the laptop folk are easy to cater
for and once I have my templates tidied up I'll post the "Club Nomad"
theme, but as you can imagine I'm having some fun/problems with PDAs.

I have the server configured to "always_stream = 1" as .m3u's are the
way to go, especially when bandwidth is limited.  On my Sony Clie TJ37
however, the NetFront web browser doesn't know what to do with .m3u's
so I have to ensure that I go to tagbrowse(?) and download the MP3 file
itself. I can then save this to a memory stick and play the downloaded
track.

What I need to know is, if anyone is using a PDA or even a Pocket PC,
are they able to play a .m3u file directly, or do they have to go
through the "fiddle" just described ? If not I'd welcome some educated
guesses as I don't know many other PDA owners and it's very difficult
to test !

Thanks in advance !

Peter Garner
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Bernd Gauweiler | 20 Dec 2004 15:11

Re: Need UserAgent information

Noticed the same problem with Sony TH-55: No build-in support for streaming M3Us. Third-party MP3 player software is available; try Google. No personal experience there; I prefer listening via "grown-up" devices ;-)
Bernd

peterg-/P8t4X87szKiMFqZbmIluw@public.gmane.org wrote:
Dear List, I'm running a copy of GNUMP3d on a wirelessly-enabled web server (it's a long story) and wonder if anyone has tried to access a server via a PDA ? I'm trying to set up my copy so that it's user-friendly to both laptop users and PDA users. Obviously the laptop folk are easy to cater for and once I have my templates tidied up I'll post the "Club Nomad" theme, but as you can imagine I'm having some fun/problems with PDAs. I have the server configured to "always_stream = 1" as .m3u's are the way to go, especially when bandwidth is limited. On my Sony Clie TJ37 however, the NetFront web browser doesn't know what to do with .m3u's so I have to ensure that I go to tagbrowse(?) and download the MP3 file itself. I can then save this to a memory stick and play the downloaded track. What I need to know is, if anyone is using a PDA or even a Pocket PC, are they able to play a .m3u file directly, or do they have to go through the "fiddle" just described ? If not I'd welcome some educated guesses as I don't know many other PDA owners and it's very difficult to test ! Thanks in advance ! Peter Garner _______________________________________________ Gnump3d-users mailing list Gnump3d-users-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnump3d-users 
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peterg | 22 Dec 2004 13:59

Re: Need UserAgent information

Thanks to all that replied on this one .. I'm working through a fine
selection of software right now :-) It doesn't look as though I can
configure the NetFront browser to handle different content types
though, so it may be that I'll eventually need to upgrade the PDA ;-) 

The other question I now have is whether I can set up GNUMP3d to play
something as soon as a client connects ?  If I use say, Winamp to
connect to the server running at http://10.0.0.12:8000 can I set up an
MP3 or OGG file in a playlist to stream out ? This would be handy as a
kind of "station identifier/announcement". Maybe even a short random
playlist ?

Thanks in advance !
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tobias appelo | 26 Dec 2004 14:07
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high cpu usage with gnump3d under windows

Hi there,

First of all I would like to say that this program is great!

I am using quite old systems to stream audio: (1 = celeron 300 mhz and 1 
= p3 550 mhz)
My experience until now is that the gnump3d server really runs slow if i 
use it under windows natively. However, if i use the cygwin tools 
performance is much better.
If i use the windows version the perl.exe process has almost constantly 
100% cpu usage while browsing through my music collection or when  I 
click on a mp3 file. As soon as the streaming starts (10 seconds later 
on the celeron machine) cpu usage becomes normal.

I have experimented with ActivePerl-5.8.6.811-MSWin32-x86-122208.msi and 
ActivePerl-5.8.1.807-MSWin32-x86.msi The newest version is a bit faster 
but still dramatically slow.
Any ideas ?
In the error gnump3d log file the only thing i see is something about 
numeric expressions:
Argument "f:/mp3/JAZZ/Blues for Coltrane (tribute) - Naima" isn't 
numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at 
c:\gnump3d2\lib/gnump3d/sorting.pm line 115.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at 
c:\gnump3d2\lib/gnump3d/sorting.pm line 115.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at 
c:\gnump3d2\lib/gnump3d/sorting.pm line 115.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at 
c:\gnump3d2\lib/gnump3d/sorting.pm line 115.
I saw on forums this error more often zo I don't think it's a problem

Bye,

Tobias
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Walter Werner | 28 Dec 2004 20:03
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Re: m4a files?

Hi there,

just a follow-up:

> Maybe your browser doesn't know what to do with .m4a files? Or maybe
> your browser is setup to use some other application besides Winamp to
> process .m4a files? Can you use your browser to stream .m4a files from
> any other site besides your gnump3d server?
> -RPM

after all, it was the MP4 plugin for Winamp 2 and XMMS that didn't work. I 
tested iTunes & Winamp 5, and it finally worked. Of course, that meant saying 
goodbye to some legendary piece of software, but so far I haven't regretted 
changing to Winamp 5. But anyway, thanks for your suggestions & assistance :)

Happy New Year!

Walter
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