Unable to play last.fm streams

[Łukasz Jernaś]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

When trying to play any type of last.fm stream I get just "Could not determine type of stream." and nothing is playing. The official player works, so it doesn't seem like a problem on their side... Below is some debug output from rhythmbox --debug (I've X-ed the session key):

(11:11:41) [0xcfd960] [start_sink] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2302: starting sink
(11:11:41) [0xcfd960] [start_sink] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2332: silence bin is now in state PAUSED
(11:11:41) [0xcfd960] [start_sink] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2339: adder is now in state PAUSED
(11:11:41) [0xcfd960] [start_sink] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2346: output bin is now in state PAUSED
(11:11:41) [0xcfd960] [start_sink] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2351: unpausing sink
(11:11:41) [0xcfd960] [start_sink] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2391: sink playing
(11:11:41) [0xcfd960] [rb_player_gst_xfade_play] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2956: playing stream xrblastfm://87.117.229.85:80/last.mp3?Session=XXXX, crossfade -1
(11:11:41) [0xcfd960] [rb_player_gst_xfade_play] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2970: stream xrblastfm://87.117.229.85:80/last.mp3?Session=XXXX is prerolling; will start playback once prerolling is complete -> PREROLL_PLAY
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [notify_playing_idle] rb-shell-player.c:608: emitting playing notification: 0
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [show_controls] rb-visualizer-plugin.c:826: showing controls
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_sync_buttons] rb-shell-player.c:2666: syncing with source 0x1381010
(11:11:41) [0x1852440] [stream_queue_probe_cb] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:1559: current network buffer level: 0; threshold 65536 - 0%
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [get_times_and_stream] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2251: not playing
(11:11:41) [0x1851850] [stream_queue_threshold_cb] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:1571: queue running - removing pad probe, running signal handler
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_error] rb-shell-player.c:2962: playback error while playing: Could not determine type of stream.
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_set_playing_source_internal] rb-shell-player.c:2732: setting playing source to (nil)
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_set_playing_source_internal] rb-shell-player.c:2755: source is already playing, stopping it
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_stop] rb-shell-player.c:2800: stopping
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [unlink_and_dispose_stream] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:1233: stopping stream xrblastfm://87.117.229.85:80/last.mp3?Session=bc44aa63195f8beaaf9e9efdf4cfcb5f
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [dump_stream_list] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:471: stream list is empty
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_sync_with_source] rb-shell-player.c:2563: playing source: (nil), active entry: (nil)
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [get_times_and_stream] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2251: not playing
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_set_window_title] rb-shell.c:2083: clearing title
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_get_playing_song_duration] rb-shell-player.c:2926: Did not get playing entry : return -1 as length
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [show_controls] rb-visualizer-plugin.c:826: showing controls
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_get_playing_song_duration] rb-shell-player.c:2926: Did not get playing entry : return -1 as length
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_header_sync] rb-header.c:355: syncing with entry = (nil)
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_header_sync] rb-header.c:426: not playing
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_get_playing_song_duration] rb-shell-player.c:2926: Did not get playing entry : return -1 as length
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_lastfm_song_changed_cb] rb-lastfm-source.c:1320: non-lastfm entry being played
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [show_controls] rb-visualizer-plugin.c:826: showing controls
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_sync_buttons] rb-shell-player.c:2666: syncing with source 0x1381010
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_player_sync_with_source] rb-shell-player.c:2563: playing source: (nil), active entry: (nil)
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [get_times_and_stream] rb-player-gst-xfade.c:2251: not playing
(11:11:41) [0x6c9500] [rb_shell_set_window_title] rb-shell.c:2083: clearing title

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 18 11:12:57 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.2-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: rhythmbox --debug
ProcCwd: /home/deejay1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux sulaco 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Trevor Schauls (trevorschauls)]

 What version of Ubuntu are you using? If you are using 7.10, go into Add/Remove and add the package ubuntu-restricted-extras.

[Trevor Schauls (trevorschauls)]

 I can confirm. I use Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit version.

[Marco (mfj)]

Same bug on Ubuntu 7.10 - 32 bit with ubuntu-restricted-extras installed. No problem with Last.fm client.

[mrblue23 (mrblue23)]

I got the same bug for a couple of days now. Before it worked just fine.

I use Ubuntu 7.10 64bit, and installed ubuntu-restricted-extras - which did not change anything.

[paul v johnson (p-johno)]

Same here on Ubuntu 7.10 64bit. Just stopped working a couple of days ago. Tried reinstalling player with no luck.

[wader (mattias-wadman)]

Same problem for me, used to work fine, stopped working some days ago.

Traffic dump when trying to change radio station (adjust.php. seams to be called only when changing between stations)

Note that i anonyminized the session id a bit

GET /radio/adjust.php?session=****2b3ffe45dc396291021abfd****&url=lastfm://artist/autchre/similarartists&debug=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: ws.audioscrobbler.com

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:31:55 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.4.3
X-Proxy-Fix-Up: headers fixed up
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

response=OK
url=lastfm://artist/autchre/similarartists
stationname= Autechre...s Similar Artists
discovery=true

GET /last.mp3?Session=****22b3ffe45dc396291021abfd**** HTTP/1.1
Host: 87.117.229.85
User-Agent: gnome-vfs/2.20.0 neon/0.25.4
Keep-Alive:
Connection: TE, Keep-Alive
TE: trailers

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: last.fm proxy streamer
Content-type: audio/mpeg
Cache-control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close

HTTP/1.0 667 Not enough content left to play this station

[Alex Cornejo (acornejoc)]

I can confirm this.

It worked last week, so it seems obvious that there was a change in last.fm's API which has rendered Rhythmbox useless (at least as far as last.fm goes).

[deformation (deformity)]

I confirm this also in Xubuntu 7.10

last.fm player works fine. but in rythmbox it cannot play last.fm stations.

[mrblue23 (mrblue23)]

my rhythmbox plays last.fm streams again

[erace (spam-erace)]

Confirmed.

[jasse (juhani-tamminen)]

Yep, seems like it works now on Gutsy. Just don't try listening to the streams you've tried before, remove them and create new ones.

[Łukasz Jernaś (deejay1)]

According to gnome-bugs #498816 it was something on the other end of the wire - marking as Invalid.

[Andy (theonlyandy)]

Could you please us give a link? Thanks

[Łukasz Jernaś (deejay1)]

It was a comment from one of the Rhythmbox devs in their bugtracker http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498816#c2

[Mantas Zimnickas (sirex)]

I just installed Ubuntu 8.04, ubuntu-restricted-extras is installed too, but when I try to play last.fm by tag 'industrial metal' I get error message: 'Could not determine type of stream'.

[kriskris (kholsheimer)]

It seems that the bug was solved for gutsy, but i'm having the same problem on hardy.

btw, ubuntu-restricted-extras is installed

[Lukasz Wisniewski (vishna)]

here on hardy I also get 'Could not determine type of stream'

on gnome bugzilla it says it's NOTGNOME & RESOLVED while it does not work :|

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

it's a problem on the last.fm side not a GNOME nor Ubuntu task, thanks.

[Mantas Zimnickas (sirex)]

But original last.fm client works ok. And why rhythmbox have enabled last.fm plugin by default if it doesn't work...

[Lukasz Wisniewski (vishna)]

It also does work with Banshee 0.13.2 so for me it's a rhythmbox issue, great integration there btw :D

[Munchkinguy (10068660)]

Problem continues to resurface in Hardy. Marking as Confirmed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't reopen closed bugs only because you have a similar issue, better to open a new bug