Getting Player working

[ashmore]

Hi, I've used VB for a while now but never needed the Vortexbox player. Now I do and I could do with some advice.


I have upgraded to 1.5


In the GUI system config it says Vortexbox player stopped. I click start but nothing happens.


I went into the dos thingy, and typed setup-vb-player and it did some stuff and then there were a few lines one of which said 'nothing to do',; then some PHP warnings about not being able to open streams in fopen(etc/vortexbox-playe/mac-list.conf) in line 20 and 24 and there being no such file as /opt/vortexbox.mp-conf - I'm abbreviating. Then some more lines about fwrite and fclose, and them not valid stream resources in lines 49,50,56 and 57; and finally some PHP notice lines about undefined indexes: mac and name in line 70.


Bottom line, I go into Squeezebox and there's no vortexbox player.


Now, you may be able to tell I have no idea what all this means, and I should say that as yet I have no DAC or anything plugged into my player - I just wanted to see that it works in software before I commit to buying dac, amp and speakers.


What am I doing wrong and will it all come to life when I plug a DAC into the USB?


Please help. I love my vortexbox but I have no clue what's really going on under the bonnet and it's not what you'd call easy to follow.


Simon

[ashmore]

Update



After calming down and reading further posts I've implemented some command lines and it now appears to be working.




As previously I have both vortexbox player and something called Music Player Daemon 0.16- from 127.0.0.1 listed within squeezebox server, which I presume to be its evil twin.




Simon

[david.todd]

Wish I could help, but I'm having the same (or a similar) problem and may know less than you do. Here are the error messages I got when I ran setup-vb-player:



Installed:
mpd.i686 0:0.16-9.fc14 vortexbox-player.i686 0:0.9-6.fc14

Dependency Installed:
gnome-packagekit.i686 0:2.32.0-2.fc14 paprefs.i686 0:0.9.9-6.fc13

Complete!
squeezeslave: unrecognized service
error reading information on service squeezeslave: Bad file descriptor
/usr/local/sbin/setup-vb-player: line 25: /etc/init.d/squeezeslave: No such file or directory
Stopping Squeezebox Server: [FAILED]
Starting Squeezebox Server: [10-12-11 19:39:47.6548] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.1, r30861, Fri Nov 5 15:33:51 EDT 2010) perl 5.012002
[ OK ]
PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/var/www/html/config/playergui.cfg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /opt/vortexbox/mpd_config.php on line 16
PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /opt/vortexbox/mpd_config.php on line 22
PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /opt/vortexbox/mpd_config.php on line 67
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]#




I'm running VB 1.6/Fedora 14, which I installed from a disk.




What command lines did you add, and where?


Thanks for any help.


David

[andrew]

Sould like you need to go into the VortexBox Player GUI and press submit.