mysqueezebox.com and pandora

[mwebster]

Ever since I've updated to VB2.0, I haven't been able to use Pandora on my vortexbox appliance. I have 4 zones through the appliance and one hardware player (squeezebox 3). When I go to mysqueezebox.com, the only player that shows up is the hardware player and when I attempt to play Pandora on any of my vortexbox appliance players, I only hear very loud static. I've scanned the forum with no luck and am not sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated.

Matt

[Macross]

You need to use softsqueeze and connect to your www.mysqueezebox.com account once. Once you do that, you can then login via the LMS Server Settings. If you have the pandora plugin loaded and configured on the www.mysqueezebox.com under your account then it should work. Softsqueeze is available for windows here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/soft...squeeze-3.9b2/

[mwebster]

I have the hardware player connected and am able to play pandora through it, but can't figure out how to connect the 4 vortexbox appliance zones to mysqueezebox.com. I've entered my email and password in the LMS settings, but still don't see my 4 vba players listed on the mysqueezebox.com players list.

[Macross]

I have the hardware player connected and am able to play pandora through it, but can't figure out how to connect the 4 vortexbox appliance zones to mysqueezebox.com. I've entered my email and password in the LMS settings, but still don't see my 4 vba players listed on the mysqueezebox.com players list.

You need to use a windows computer and softsqueeze. Once you have authenticated with the software player, then you will be able to login with LMS.

You need to use softsqueeze and connect to your www.mysqueezebox.com account once. Once you do that, you can then login via the LMS Server Settings.

[mwebster]

Thanks for trying to help Macross. I installed softsqueeze and ran through the mysqueezebox account setup with success, but still can't get the 4 vba players to connect. I did this on a computer on my network. I can bring up both the vba web interface and lms web interface from this computer. I'm not sure what else to look for or do. Any ideas?

[sheldon]

You need to use a windows computer and softsqueeze. Once you have authenticated with the software player, then you will be able to login with LMS.

You need to use softsqueeze and connect to your www.mysqueezebox.com account once. Once you do that, you can then login via the LMS Server Settings.

I created a pandora account, downloaded softsqueeze and entered my squeezebox account info (and entered on LMS). I still get an "invalid login". I'm using VB 2.2. Don't know what to do next. Any help appreciated.

Sheldon

[mwebster]

Driving me nuts. I can pick a Pandora station that I've previously added to my Pandora station list and then see the cover art and song for the first song that is played, doesn't this indicate a connection with mysqueezebox.com and Pandora? Otherwise how would it know what my stations are? The only problem I have is the song doesn't play and instead I hear very loud static in its place.

[Macross]

Instead of default on the http://vortexbox/vortexbox-player.php page use plughw 0,1 and unclick the software volume adjustment

[mwebster]

I've followed these instructions provided to me by Andrew when I purchased the vba:
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In order to get 4 channel sound working you need to do this from the VortexBox command line

cd /var/tmp
wget http://yum.vortexbox.org/fix/asound.conf
cp asound.conf /etc
reboot

Then you need to go into the VortexBox player GUI and create the 4 players

The first player has these setting

Name: Green
MAC: leave it blank
Audio Device: pcm.green
soft vol: checked

Then create 3 more players with the same settings for Pink, Gray, and Black. The audio device for each is pcm.color and the name is Color.

Thats it. Once you hit submit you should have your 4 players. You can connect your amp to the corresponding color connector on the back of the VortexBox.
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __

I've attached a screenshot of what my player screen looks like and I'm unsure where to make the change you suggest.

[mwebster]

From reading other posts, here is some additional stuff that I've seen that may/may not be helpful, but I'm not sure what it means:

[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# more /etc/asound.conf
#
# Place your global alsa-lib configuration here...
#

@hooks [
{
func load
files [
"/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf"
]
errors false
}
]

pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1099
ipc_perm 0660
slave {
pcm "hw:0"
rate 44100
channels 8
periods 128
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
}
}

pcm.softvol {
type softvol
slave.pcm "green"
}



pcm.green {
type route
slave.pcm dmixer
slave.channels 8
ttable.0.0 1
ttable.1.1 1
}

pcm.pink {
type route
slave.pcm dmixer
slave.channels 8
ttable.0.4 1
ttable.1.5 1
}

pcm.gray {
type route
slave.pcm dmixer
slave.channels 8
ttable.0.6 1
ttable.1.7 1
}

pcm.black {
type route
slave.pcm dmixer
slave.channels 8
ttable.0.2 1
ttable.1.3 1
}