Firefly now running on unmodifed Linkstation Live/Pro

[bawbagg]

Yup. I ripped a .flac and tried it out. Doesn’t work for me either.

BB

[mave]

Thank you for the quick response.

This following part of the logfile looks like the transcoding works somehow:

2007-07-20 09:00:03 (41b7a520): Session 0: Streaming file ‘A Day Without Rain – Enya – 11 – The First Of Autumn.flac’ to 192.168.1.12 (offset 0)
2007-07-20 09:00:03 (41b7a520): Transcoding /mnt/disk1/Music/Alben Lossless/Enya/A Day Without Rain/A Day Without Rain – Enya – 11 – The First Of Autumn.flac with ssc-script/svn-1586
2007-07-20 09:00:03 (41b7a520): Executing /usr/local/bin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh “/mnt/disk1/Music/Alben Lossless/Enya/A Day Without Rain/A Day Without Rain – Enya – 11 – The First Of Autumn.flac” 0 190.066 “flac”

But I hope that Ron could answer that.

🙂 Marcus

[Kaiten]

Hey Guys, I’m interested in this thread especially the flac files not working. it was me who compiled svn- 1571 & svn-1586 for the Linkstation boxes. I’d like to see it working fully.

On my Dev & Prod LinkStations, the flac binaries work fine.

Dev

root@LS-GL250:/# flac -d /mnt/disk1/Music/Exit1_1.flac -f



flac 1.1.4, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson

flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are

welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.



Exit1_1.flac: done

root@LS-GL250:/#

Prod

root@LS-GL500:~# flac -d /mnt/disk1/Music/Exit1_1.flac -f



flac 1.1.4, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson

flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are

welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.



Exit1_1.flac: done

root@LS-GL500:~#

In both these instances the wav file is produced fine.

I have svn-1571 running on my Prod box. With the same flac binaries/libs as the Dev box, it plays flac files fine. However with svn-1586 running on the Dev box they don’t play.

I’m playing the same file: Exit1_1.flac a 9 second audio file.

Both logs show the same info.
Dev

2007-07-20 18:37:07 (424ff520): Session 0: Streaming file 'Exit1_1.flac' to 192.168.1.104 (offset 0)

2007-07-20 18:37:08 (403305d0): Got CLD signal.  Reaping

Prod

2007-07-20 18:37:32 (41cff520): Session 0: Streaming file 'Exit1_1.flac' to 192.168.1.104 (offset 0)

2007-07-20 18:37:39 (4032e550): Got CLD signal.  Reaping

I’ll try recompiling svn-1586 & test on both boxes. Any way I can look further into this?

I only test using xbmc & iTunes(OS X) with a small number of audio files, ogg, m4a, mp3 & wav. I don’t have any flac files other than the one I encoded today.

[mave]

Hi Kaiten,

I checked the basic flac functionality and it works:

root@HS-DHGL553:/mnt/disk1/Music# flac -d Test.flac -f



flac 1.1.4, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson

flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are

welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.



Test.flac: done

root@HS-DHGL553:/mnt/disk1/Music#

Might be a problem with the streaming. If so, how could I debug that – is there a streaming test client?

🙂 Marcus

[Kaiten]

Easy fix… I forgot the stock firmware only root has permissions for /dev/null as per http://bugtracker.linkstationwiki.net/view.php?id=86

Alter the permissions for /dev/null for read/write access.

chmod 0666 /dev/null

Test please 😀

[mave]

Hi Kaiten,

that was 100% correct 😀

I checked it and now flac works – and it’s incredible how fast it is. Wow!
It seems to be as fast and reactive as my firefly running on a Sempron 2400 – really impressive.

Thank you very much for your help, you saved me a lot of time!
And thanks again to BB for the brilliant description.

🙂 Marcus

[bawbagg]

I updated the wiki with the fix.

BB

[Kaiten]

For those running with logs.. you might want to add the mt-daapd log to the log rotate schedule too. 😉

[rpedde]

@Kaiten wrote:

For those running with logs.. you might want to add the mt-daapd log to the log rotate schedule too. 😉

Remember to touch the new logfile and chown it to the “run_as” user, then send it a HUP, otherwise it won’t move to the new log file.

— Ron

[taalas]

Hello bawbagg,

just registered to say thank you for the great instructions you provided. I originally found your post on the linkstationwiki forums in search for a replacement of the Live’s stock mt-daapd (which accessed the HD like crazy).

It took me about 4 minutes installing a recent Firefly using your wiki article. Thanks!

One more thing: Additionally to your instructions I changed the file permissions on the config file to be able to change config through the web interface (standard file permissions from the tar would result in the web interface not being able to write to the file). All is well now, web interface gives errors sometimes when writing a new password or server name (Error500:adminpass e.g.) but I think this is Firefly-related. The changes work regardless. Others fields work without any error as far as i remember…

Thanks

Markus

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