some tips for troubleshooting

2017-05-07T20:55:38.409000Z

Hi all,
some tips for all those who ended up with radiotray not working after a change to the system.
i know there are a few forks both for ubuntu/debian systems. i use fedora and what worked for me seems worth a try.
here we go:
installing the source package might be a good way to see what's happening.
On an arch forum i found a good compilation of the requirements:

gstreamer 
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins
gstreamer0.10-python
pygtk
python2-dbus
python2-gobject (python2-gobject-git, python2-gobject-patched)
python2-lxml
python2-notify
python2-xdg
python2 
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins (optional)
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (optional)
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins (optional)

many of these packages will already be present in desktop systems.
without the optional plugins i still got this error:
gsttypefindelement.c(562): gst_type_find_element handle_event:/GstPlayBin2:player/ GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin 4/ GstTypeFindElement:typefind element4
This problem was fixed with the installation of:
gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly
i also read about problems that were solved by installing pygtk2-libglade, i don't know if the installation was necessary in my case though.
unfortunately this is not enough for aac files. this requires the installation of the ffmpeg package which has the necessary plugin to decode these.
as the stations that come with radiotray are old or broken i can recommend www.internet-radio.com. this site has the audio stream addresses needed to configure your radio list.

i hope i could help people who like this simple but nice radio player.

peter

radiotray stops very often

2016-05-15T06:42:43.876000Z

Hi,

I have the following problem. When I listen to a station. radiotray stops very often. Then I have to turn ON,OFF and ON again. Before it start playing again. Is there a way to fix this.

Thanks!

This is the log file:
2016-05-15 08:32:28,277 - DEBUG - Buffering 8
2016-05-15 08:32:28,279 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,279 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,280 - DEBUG - paused
2016-05-15 08:32:28,281 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,281 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,281 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,282 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,282 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,282 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,283 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,283 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,283 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,283 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,283 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,284 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,284 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,284 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,284 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,284 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,285 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,285 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,285 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,285 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,285 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,285 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,286 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,286 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,286 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,286 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,286 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,286 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,286 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,287 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,287 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,287 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,287 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,287 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,287 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,288 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,288 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,288 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,288 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,288 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.
2016-05-15 08:32:28,288 - DEBUG - Received MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED (<enum GST_STATE_PLAYING="" of="" type="" GstState=""> -> <enum GST_STATE_PAUSED="" of="" type="" GstState="">)
2016-05-15 08:32:28,289 - INFO - Received PAUSE state.

Radio Stopped Working in Ubuntu 16.04

2016-04-01T15:33:13.352000Z

Please take a look at this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/radiotray/+bug/1557115

When you run radiotray from the command line, you get the following error:

user@pc:~$ radiotray
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/radiotray/XmlDataProvider.py:23: PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
from gi.repository import Gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/radiotray", line 12, in <module>
os.chdir(workdir)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/bin/src'

Custom Configuration Directory

2015-10-29T17:26:23.944000Z

From what I can see, it looks like this can be set in the variable USER_CFG_PATH in "src/lib/common.py". Command line options seem to be set in "src/testdbus.py". If I get it figured out I will upload a patch.

Custom Configuration Directory

2015-10-29T17:02:44.990000Z

Does Radio Tray have the ability to use a custom configuration directory rather than ".local/share/radiotray"? This would be nice to share configurations and bookmarks across systems.

Thank you. I love the simplicity of Radio Tray. I hope development continues.

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