Pandora works but not my mp3 collection

[freedomgli]

I purchased your most excellenet VortexBox appliance the other day. I am using iPeng 1.1.2 to control my Squeezebox receiver via my iPhone. Music from radio services like Pandora stream fine via SqueezeNetwork but when I try to play my mp3s there is no sound. Both iPeng and SqueezeCenter show the mp3 file is being played but no sound comes out of my stereo. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

[yeswork]

Hi,


Is Mplayer and Ailen BBC installed on your vortexbox. If they are, I have found that there is curently a conflict on my vortexbox that stops MP3 playback. It may be affecting yours.


There is a workaround. Go to the web interface for Vortexbox/Squeezecenter, Settings, Advanced, FileTypes.


Under the left heading MP3 - set FLAC to disabled. Restart squeezecenter via ssh or just reboot the vortexbox.


See if MP3s start playing.


Good Luck! Let us know how it works.

[freedomgli]

That is not my issue. I suspect it has something to do with the default squeezeslave IP address. Under SqueezeCenter Settings/ Information/ VortexBox it says


Player Model: squeezeslave


Player IP Address: 127.0.0.1


Player MAC Address: 00:00:00:00:00:01

[andrew]

Do you have speakers connected to your VortexBox?

[freedomgli]

Andrew said:


Do you have speakers connected to your VortexBox?




No. My VortexBox is hardwired to my router and my Squeezebox is connected to my stereo. I configured the Squeezebox receiver using Net-UDAP. The lan_network_address and squeezecenter_address are the same. My Squeezebox accesses the SqueezeNetwork via the VortexBox. However, when I switch Music Source to the VortexBox in order to play mp3 both iPeng and SqueezeCenter show the file is being played but the sound is silent.

[freedomgli]

I can access Pandora just fine. Pandora is not the issue here. My problem is that when I try to play my mp3 collection on VortexBox my stereo is silent. Both iPeng and SqueezeCenter on VortexBox show the song is being played but there is no sound at all. It is as if my stereo is muted. I suspect it has something to do with the configuration of squeezeslave but I don't know. I am not very familiar with VortexBox or Linux.

[freedomgli]

Also, I used PuTTy to access VortexBox command line. I type alsamixer to check sound card volumes and everything looks fine.

[yeswork]

Hi,


I think we need some more information.


Where are the MP3 files you want to play?


Did you copy them to /files/music/flac? on the vortexbox?

[freedomgli]

I copied my existing mp3 collection to /files/music/mp3. I do not have any flac files.

[freedomgli]

It's so strange because before I had VortexBox I was running SqueezeCenter on my Windows Vista machine and everything worked as it should. With VortexBox appliance I can play internet radio services but not my mp3s. Still searching for a solution. Thanks for your continued help.

[yeswork]

Hii,


I beleive vortexbox needs to have alll music files (even MP3s) copied to the FLAC directory, then vortbox processes them.


If the files are MP3s then vortexbox copies them to the /MP3 directory. If MP3s start in the MP3 directory they have not been properly processed by Vortexbox.


As an experiment, copy a new MP3 (with a new name) file to the FLAC directory. Force SqueezeCenter to reindex. See if you can now play the new MP3 file.

[freedomgli]

I copied my mp3s to files/music/flac and forced SqueezeCenter to rescan my music library but still I get no sound when I try to play songs on my VortexBox.



SqueezeCenter Status


Version: 7.3.2 - 24695 @ Mon Jan 19 16:57:28 PST 2009


Hostname: vortexbox.localdomain


Server IP Address: 192.168.1.4


Server HTTP Port Number: 9000


Operating system: Red Hat - EN - utf8


Platform Architecture: i686-linux


Perl Version: 5.10.0 - i386-linux-thread-multi


MySQL Version: 5.0.77


Total Players Recognized: 1






Library Statistics


Total Tracks: 4,633


Total Albums: 650


Total Artists: 611


Total Genres: 46


Total Playing Time: 337:17:28






Music Scan Details



Directory Scan (4634 of 4634) Complete 00:12:09


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Playlist Scan ( of ) Complete 00:00:07


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SqueezeCenter has finished scanning your music collection.
Total Time: 00:16:28 (Wednesday, June 3, 2009 / 10:25 PM)





Player Information

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VortexBox

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Player IP Address: 127.0.0.1


Player MAC Address: 00:00:00:00:00:01

[freedomgli]

Okay, I have solved the problem. It was an iPeng configuration issue with it selecting the wrong player when I wanted to access SqueezeCenter. I am now good! Thank you!

[andrew]

I don't have pandora for testing. But I googles pandora and squeezeslave and I found out that you need to change the mac address of your squeezeslave to

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