Live365 stream buffering at 0% all the time

[Mariano Mara]

I installed banshee-extension-liveradio. I can browse the available radios, select a Live 365 radio and click on them to play. However they're always buffering (at 0%) so at the most I can listen to 2 seconds of music, 2 seconds of silence and then again, ad infinitum. It's not a network problem as I'm able to listen to other radios (such as http://s1.viastreaming.net:7170/) without problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee-extension-liveradio 2.0.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 28 10:21:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta 1 i386 (20110329.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee-community-extensions
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Avery (docaltmed)]

This occurs not only with Live365 but all internet radio stations. The stream is not buffered, causing interrupted playback. I'm using the Banshee daily repo on 11.10.

[Avery (docaltmed)]

Just to clarify, as with the original reporter, this problem is *not* occurring outside of Banshee.

[razor7 (ghiamar)]

The same here!

[Mariano Mara (marplatense)]

I'm still on Natty and since yesterday (the first time I test it in months) this problem seems to have gone away. I didn't do anything special so maybe some upgrade fixed it (my current version of banshee-extension-liveradio is 2.0.0-1ubuntu1)

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Is that so? I'll just close the bug then. Please reopen if you see this bug again.

[Avery (docaltmed)]

I'm having the same problem. Banshee 2.4.

[hb6381 (hb6381)]

Affirm

[freakalad (freakalad)]

I think I'm experiencing an identical issue: Banshee retrieves playing stream's metadata OK, but fails to play media - constantly flicks buffer to 0.0%.
This stream works well/great in other clients, such as VLC & Chromium browser (on multiple OS's)

Client:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86_64 3.2.0-27-generic
banshee 2.4.1-3ubuntu1~precise2
banshee-extension-liveradio 2.4.0-1ubuntu1

"Open Location" is a bust (same results), so created radio stations.
I've set up MPD in a VM & pushing out the audio streams via HTTP as documented: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration#Built-in_HTTP_streaming

CLI debug (https://live.gnome.org/Banshee/CommonQuestions/Logs) not much help.

Getting the following debug info when (re)playing the track/station/audio stream:

[1 Debug 14:31:35.319] (libbanshee:player) bp_stop: setting state to GST_STATE_NULL
[1 Debug 14:31:35.382] Player state change: Playing -> Idle
[81 Debug 14:31:35.943] Parsed 1 URIs out of - media ogg (on media ogg) <00:00:00> [<unknown>]
[81 Debug 14:31:35.944] Playing Radio Stream - http://media:8000/mpd.ogg
[81 Debug 14:31:35.944] Player state change: Idle -> Loading
[1 Debug 14:31:36.119] Player state change: Loading -> Loaded
[1 Debug 14:31:36.129] (libbanshee:player) [gapless] Triggering track-change signal
[1 Debug 14:31:36.373] Player state change: Loaded -> Playing
[1 Debug 14:31:37.392] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 29.00 FPS
[1 Debug 14:31:37.392] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 29.00 FPS

Getting the following debug when skipping to next track in MPD:

[1 Debug 14:32:16.617] (libbanshee:player) [gapless] Triggering track-change signal
[1 Debug 14:32:17.896] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 22.00 FPS
[1 Debug 14:32:18.081] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 26.00 FPS
[4 Warn 14:32:23.832] Executed in 546ms
                SELECT DISTINCT CoreAlbums.AlbumID, CoreAlbums.Title, CoreArtists.Name, CoreTracks.Uri, CoreTracks.TrackID
                    FROM CoreTracks, CoreArtists, CoreAlbums
                    WHERE
                        CoreTracks.PrimarySourceID = 1 AND
                        CoreTracks.DateUpdatedStamp > 1342986895 AND
                        CoreTracks.AlbumID = CoreAlbums.AlbumID AND
                        CoreAlbums.ArtistID = CoreArtists.ArtistID AND
                        CoreTracks.AlbumID NOT IN (
                            SELECT AlbumID FROM CoverArtDownloads WHERE
                                LastAttempt > 1342382095 OR Downloaded = 1)
                    GROUP BY CoreTracks.AlbumID ORDER BY CoreTracks.DateUpdatedStamp DESC LIMIT 1

[Jason Eisner (jason-cs)]

Confirming this problem, for Live365 stations only (i.e., the liveradio extension to Banshee). I'm using Banshee 2.4.0, with the liveradio plugin configured to use my Live365 username/password. The problem does NOT affect the initial ads, only the music stream. I get a burst of music every 1 second, but the burst only lasts for about 0.5 seconds followed by silence for 0.5 seconds. Note: I can listen just fine to the Live365 streams via Firefox, and I can listen to non-Live365 radio stations fine via Banshee. Let me know if I can provide more information.

This problem has also been reported elsewhere, most relevantly at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1853161 .
Try this search query to find other reports:
https://www.google.com/search?q=banshee+live365+poor+OR+bursty+OR+fragmented+OR+skip+OR+pause+OR+buffer+OR+stall

[Paul Backhouse (paulbackhouse)]

I only see this with live365. xiph.org buffers fine.

[pandev922 (markurujapan)]

I have exactly the same problem with ubuntu 13.10 and banshee 2.6. The problem is present only with live365 , please fix it.