Version: cvs (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) Installed from: Gentoo Packages OS: Linux When streaming internet radio stations playing title information doesnt seem to work, I've tried many streams with no results. With xmms titles works for me ok.
So far this seems to be broken only on Grue's box. I need more information to solve this riddle. Is there anybody else out there for whom title-streaming does not work at all? (please keep in mind that some servers do not support metadata)
Update: The problem is due to using the TitleProxy in combination with squid (http proxy). Looking for a solution.
problem is: when there is a proxy set for kde, arts tries to connect to this proxy, which then tries to connect to our titleproxy. this must fail of course, since the real http proxy wont be able to find our titleproxy at 127.0.0.1. finding a solution might be really hard. we need to force arts to explicitly _not_ connect to the http proxy, so we can do a manual proxying with our titleproxy. lots of "proxies" in here ;-) ...muesli
*** Bug 95258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
After redirected from Bug#95258 i can confirm that KDE proxy settings are the reason why amarok is not playing http streams via arts engine. I could temporarily solve the problem by setting all my streaming url's to no proxy. But it would be really nice if a better solution could be found. But it seems that arts developement has stopped?
Yes, aRts is dead. Simply use another engine instead.
Maybe you're interested in the following output: This is debug output when starting amarok for the first time and the last stream is automatically played: amarok: PluginManager Service Info: amarok: --------------------------- amarok: name : aRts-Treiber amarok: library : libamarok_artsengine_plugin amarok: desktopEntryPath : amarok_artsengine_plugin.desktop amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-plugintype : engine amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-name : arts-engine amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-authors : (Mark Kretschmann) amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-rank : 200 amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-version : 1 amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-framework-version: 3 amarok: amarok: BEGIN [virtual bool ArtsEngine::init()] amarok: END [virtual bool ArtsEngine::init()] amarok: [static void PluginManager::unload(amaroK::Plugin*)] amarok: [virtual amaroK::Plugin::~Plugin()] amarok: [PluginManager] Unloading library: libamarok_void-engine_plugin amarok: END [static EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine()] amarok: [void CollectionView::renderView()] amarok: SELECT DISTINCT artist.name FROM tags,album,artist WHERE 1 AND tags.sampler = 0 AND album.id=tags.album AND artist.id=tags.artist ORDER BY LOWER( artist.name ) amarok: SELECT DISTINCT artist.name FROM tags,album,artist WHERE 1 AND tags.sampler = 1 AND album.id=tags.album AND artist.id=tags.artist LIMIT 0, 1 amarok: END [void App::applySettings(bool)] amarok: [aRts-Engine] Loading url: http://extremestream.musik-radio.org:10000/ amarok: aRts-Engine: url.path() == / amarok: aRts-Engine: url.protocol() == http amarok: aRts-Engine: url.host() == extremestream.musik-radio.org amarok: aRts-Engine: url.port() == 10000 amarok: [virtual bool ArtsEngine::load(const KURL&, bool)] m_pPlayObject->object().isNull() playing the stream is working without problems. Now i just stop playing the stream and start playing again: [amaroK] Startup successful [amaroK] Exiting js@lotus:~> amarok: [AudioScrobbler] Similar artists: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/similar/ amarok: Initial Color Properties: s:146 v:138 amarok: Unapplied Contrast: 14 amarok: Final Colour Properties: s:30 v:152 amarok: [App] Pruned 0 of 1 amazon cover images. amarok: [virtual void LoaderServer::newConnection(int)] amarok: Received: STARTUP (8 bytes) amarok: [AudioScrobbler] Handshake result parsed: challenge=0B9B0384A0DB38EF91AF6F69921BE8FE, submitUrl=http://post.audioscrobbler.com:80/protocol_1.1 amarok: [AudioScrobbler] Suggestions retrieved amarok: [virtual void ArtsEngine::stop()] amarok: [controller] Detected mimetype: text/html amarok: [amaroK::StreamProvider::StreamProvider(KURL, const QString&)] amarok: [amaroK::StreamProvider::StreamProvider(KURL, const QString&)] Trying to bind to port: 6700 amarok: [aRts-Engine] Loading url: http://127.0.0.1:6700 amarok: aRts-Engine: url.path() == amarok: aRts-Engine: url.protocol() == http amarok: aRts-Engine: url.host() == 127.0.0.1 amarok: aRts-Engine: url.port() == 6700 amarok: [virtual bool ArtsEngine::load(const KURL&, bool)] m_pPlayObject->object().isNull() QObject::connect: No such slot ArtsEngine::newStreamData(char*,int) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') now amarok tries something completely different. Maybe this behaviour could be changed and amarok will work together with arts too.
aRts engine was removed in 1.4, so this becomes invalid.
This can be reproduced with the latest stable Amarok 1.4.9.1 with the XINE engine, see bug#162555