liveradio SHOUTcast.com plugin times out when loading.

[Atli Þór Jónsson]

Trying to use the LiveRadio SHOUTcast.com plugin always times out when it tries to load the genres.
The "Plugin Statistics" shows a "General Error" with the message: "The request timed out".
The "Choose by query " controls stay disabled.

I'm using a fully up-to-date Ubuntu 11.10.

I'm attaching a "banshee --debug" output.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

It doesn't look like there's any error displayed in the debug output. Could you try getting the output of "banshee --debug" while reproducing the bug, please?

[Atli Þór Jónsson (atli-jonsson)]

I just had a look at the ShoutCastPlugin code, and I believe I've figured out the problem. It's not a bug in the code at all, but an error in the API it uses to fetch the data.

It uses "http://207.200.98.1/" as the base URI, which when viewed in a browser describes a MySQL connection problem. All the calls to the XML API just return "No DB!", which would fit the current error I'm getting from Banshee:

[20 Debug 01:02:52.246] [LiveRadioBasePlugin"SHOUTcast.com"] <RetrieveXml> Error: Text node cannot appear in this state. Line 1, position 1. END

I'm not familiar enough with this service to figure out what can be done to fix this. Has it perhaps been deprecated in favor of a new API? I found the following wiki which shows another API to this, but it requires a developer ID.

http://wiki.winamp.com/wiki/SHOUTcast_Radio_Directory_API

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I have forwarded this bug to the upstream bug tracker (see the gnome-bugs link above). Please direct all discussion about this issue there instead.