(09-03-2024, 08:26 PM)jmperagine Wrote: I had the sxmplayer working, doesn't seem to work with the newer versions on a clean install. although, I installed it on V9.03 and then upgdated, it worked.

(09-04-2024, 12:22 AM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote:

(09-03-2024, 08:26 PM)jmperagine Wrote: I had the sxmplayer working, doesn't seem to work with the newer versions on a clean install. although, I installed it on V9.03 and then upgdated, it worked.

I assume you follow your updated HowTo thread in order to install sxm-player. What does "doesn't seem to work" mean specifically?

Regards,
Kent

(09-04-2024, 02:00 PM)jmperagine Wrote:

(09-04-2024, 12:22 AM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote:

(09-03-2024, 08:26 PM)jmperagine Wrote: I had the sxmplayer working, doesn't seem to work with the newer versions on a clean install. although, I installed it on V9.03 and then upgdated, it worked.

I assume you follow your updated HowTo thread in order to install sxm-player. What does "doesn't seem to work" mean specifically?

Regards,
Kent

I should have been clearer with my problem. I get no sound from the IQ Audio Dac Pro. I know how to choose the audio device, works before the sxm-player install, no audio after the sxm-player install. But I had it working on 9.03, and then subsequently did a few updates, 9.04 then 9.05 and all was ok. BTW, I have one running 8.3.9 and it's stable as a rock.

(09-05-2024, 12:31 AM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote:

(09-04-2024, 02:00 PM)jmperagine Wrote:

(09-04-2024, 12:22 AM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote:

(09-03-2024, 08:26 PM)jmperagine Wrote: I had the sxmplayer working, doesn't seem to work with the newer versions on a clean install. although, I installed it on V9.03 and then upgdated, it worked.

I assume you follow your updated HowTo thread in order to install sxm-player. What does "doesn't seem to work" mean specifically?

Regards,
Kent

I should have been clearer with my problem. I get no sound from the IQ Audio Dac Pro. I know how to choose the audio device, works before the sxm-player install, no audio after the sxm-player install. But I had it working on 9.03, and then subsequently did a few updates, 9.04 then 9.05 and all was ok. BTW, I have one running 8.3.9 and it's stable as a rock.

So I installed sxm-player and signed up again for an account. This on a Pi 3B/USB DAC running moOde 9.0.8. Set up the systemd sxm-player.service and enabled it. Huh, the radio station I was listening to at the time went silent---still playing, apparently, but no audio out. It's as if the player is muted. That sounds <grin> like your problem.

I didn't see anything unusual in the moOde log (moodeutl -l) so I turned on moOde debug logging to see if that might reveal something. Didn't see anything useful and was futzing around when---hey presto chango---I was hearing the radio station again.

I then successfully listened to a SiriusXM channel for a while. (Debug logging turned off again.)

I then restarted the player and found myself back with silent audio and no amount of futzing around has got it back.

Bottom line---I don't know what enabling sxm-player as a service is doing that disrupts audio.

I'll have to poke around some more to try to find the root cause.

Regards,
Kent

(09-05-2024, 09:34 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: @jmperagine 

Oops. I am mistaken. (The older I get the more frequently this happens.)

In the testing I reported above, the "USB DAC" was actually a Creative BT-W2 adapter which is a USB-to-Bluetooth device. The apparent muting I was experiencing was the result of the device disconnecting from my Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones. Power-cycling the headphones re-establishes the connection since the adapter remembers their pairing and I can now listen to either conventional moOde sources or to the SiriusXM radio channels I added. Not sure what, specifically, caused the disconnection.

To double-check, I've installed a fresh copy of moOde 9.0.8 to an RPi 4B equipped with an Inno-Maker DAC Pro HAT (this DAC uses the Allo Katana driver). This time I'm using wired headphones. This combo worked before I installed sxm-player, and continued to work after I installed and enabled it as a service.

So, on the one hand I can say the sxm-player should work in your setup and, on the other hand, I can't say why it isn't.

Regards,
Kent