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banshee-community-extensions package

liveradio SHOUTcast.com plugin times out when loading.

Bug #903545 reported by Atli Þór Jónsson on 2011-12-13

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	banshee-community-extensions	Unknown	Medium	gnome-bugs #668890
	banshee-community-extensions (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

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.

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Atli Þór Jónsson (atli-jonsson) wrote on 2011-12-13:

"banshee --debug" output Edit (15.4 KiB, text/plain)

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote on 2012-01-27:

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?

Changed in banshee-community-extensions (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Atli Þór Jónsson (atli-jonsson) wrote on 2012-01-28:

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