[Icecast] Streaming OGG/Vorbis files dies on track change

Wed Jul 7 00:09:26 UTC 2021

Hi Jordan,

The oggs vary from 100 to 130 kbps but when sent via Mixxx they are all 
encoded as 128kbps. And trimming the comments made no difference.

Thanks,

Chris.

On 7/7/21 2:35 am, Jordan Erickson wrote:
> Hi Kit,
>
> My guess is that it's 1 of 2 things:
>
> 1) Your Ogg/Vorbis files are not encoded uniformly (i.e. differing 
> smaplerates/quality/num. of channels/etc.)
>
> 2) Your files need a trim :) Try this bash script on a sample of 
> problem files and see if it helps:
>
> ---
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # Fixes end-of-stream bug with ogg vorbis files so they don't
> # cause some players to crash when moving to a new song in the
> # stream.
> #
> for FILE in $(find /path/to/oggfiles -name '*.ogg'); do
>    cat /dev/null | vorbiscomment -a $FILE;
> done
> ---
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jordan Erickson
>
>
> On 7/5/21 10:22 PM, kit wrote:
>> Hi Philipp,
>>
>> I was concerned about the mountpoint name as well afterwards so now 
>> in my tests I used stream8001.ogg. But this did not change anything 
>> in the behaviour as I still had the same issues.
>>
>> Testing was re-done in a virtual machine and examined the access.log 
>> as suggested. I can confirm that there is only 1 SOURCE entry for the 
>> source client at runtime.
>>
>> EZSTREAM with ogg metadata sent
>>
>> 1/27.0.0.1 - - [06/Jul/2021:12:05:41 +0800] "SOURCE /stream8001.ogg 
>> HTTP/1.0" 401 331 "-" "libshout/2.4.5" 0//
>> //10.1.1.20 - - [06/Jul/2021:12:12:34 +0800] "GET /stream8001.ogg 
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 5648489 "-" "Clementine 1.3.1" 405 <--------Clementine 
>> dies about 3 minutes after track change. My associate reports that 
>> his Windows Media Player dies too.//
>> //10.1.1.20 - - [06/Jul/2021:12:16:36 +0800] "GET /stream8001.ogg 
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 9865567 "-" "Mozilla/5.0" 623 <----- keeps playing but 
>> reports the following discontinuity during a track change .../
>>
>> chris at asus-roc:~> mpv http://10.1.1.41:8001/stream8001.ogg
>>   (+) Audio --aid=1 'All Directions Are Up' (vorbis 2ch 44100Hz)
>> File tags:
>>   Artist: Cyber Zen Sound Engine
>>   Album: Moonscapes: How Stones Become Enlightened
>>   Album_Artist: Cyber Zen Sound Engine
>>   Genre: Electronica
>>   Title: All Directions Are Up
>>   Track: 1
>> AO: [jack] 44100Hz stereo 2ch floatp
>> A: 00:03:34 / 00:03:39 (98%) Cache: 4.6s/165KB
>> /*[lavf] Linearizing discontinuity: 0.000000 -> 246.296599*//*
>> *//*[lavf] Linearizing discontinuity: 246.293696 -> 246.296599*/
>> A: 00:03:39 / 00:03:44 (98%) Cache: 5.0s/157KB
>> File tags:
>>   Artist: Fanger & Schönwälder
>>   Album: Analog Overdose (Featuring Lutz Ulbrich)
>>   Album_Artist: Fanger & Schönwälder
>>   Genre: Disco
>>   Title: Analog Moods
>> A: 00:10:21 / 00:10:26 (99%) Cache: 4.6s/266KB
>>
>> I next used Mixxx to stream Ogg files without metadata - all 
>> listening clients performed ok during track changes. Naturally those 
>> clients could not report any track titles/artists.
>>
>> /127.0.0.1 - - [06/Jul/2021:12:51:26 +0800] "SOURCE /stream8001.ogg 
>> HTTP/1.0" 401 331 "-" "libshout/2.4.1" 0/
>>
>> Next Mixxx with ogg metadata was streamed - same problems as the 
>> EZSTREAM results above.
>>
>> The Mixxx manual has this nice little mention -
>>
>> /*Dynamically update Ogg Vorbis metadata*//: Due to flaws in some 
>> streaming clients, updating Ogg Vorbis metadata dynamically can cause 
>> listener glitches and disconnections. Check this box to update the 
>> metadata anyway. Some players that listeners can use have bugs that 
>> can cause audio glitches or disconnections when the Ogg Vorbis 
>> metadata is updated dynamically. If this is not a problem, you can 
>> enable this checkbox./
>>
>> Since EZSTREAM or Ices can not stream MP3 or OGG (without it's 
>> metadata) I am ditching them both. MPD+ncmpcpp work nicely last night 
>> on a test rig streaming MP3 so I am rebuilding my server with those.
>>
>> But I would still be curious about this issue as to what happened.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/7/21 8:04 pm, Philipp Schafft wrote:
>>> Good afternoon,
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2021-07-04 at 10:24 +0800, kit wrote:
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> I'm having issues with streaming OGG/Vorbis files to Icecast. I am
>>>> using  Ezsteam to stream a playlist of Ogg files from the command
>>>> line, but  when there is a track change the stream stops in clients
>>>> like Clementine  and Windows Media Player. MPV client reports a
>>>> discontinuity but carries on playing.
>>>>
>>>> I have also test using Mixxx to stream as Ogg to the same icecast
>>>> server but it has the same issue. Only B.U.T.T. seems to handle track
>>>> changes well.
>>>>
>>>> This is my mount details from the icecast XML file.
>>>>
>>>>       <mount type="normal">
>>>>           <mount-name>/stream8001</mount-name>
>>> That is a strange name for a mount.
>>> Please also keep in mind that some broken players expect Ogg/Vorbis
>>> streams to have an URI ending with ".ogg". This is NOT a problem of
>>> Icecast, but of some players. So consider to change this.
>>>
>>>
>>>> <username>s8001</username>
>>>>           <password>redacted</password>
>>>>        </mount>
>>>>
>>>> There are no issues with streaming MP3 at all as far as I can see.
>>>> But since I need to use EZstream OGG format is my only option.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking at MPD+ncmpcpp as an alternative (more reading) but I
>>>> would  like to stick with Ezstream at this point since I have it
>>>> running.
>>>>
>>>> This track change issue with ogg files seems to be a known issue.
>>>> But  reading the docs a bit more I wonder if the use of a fallback-
>>>> mount setting using an ogg file of 5 secs of silence would fix
>>>> things?
>>> It depends on what the actual problem is. But I suspect it is not that
>>> the source client drops the connection. A fallback would only help in
>>> that case.
>>>
>>> You can check this by having a look at your access.log. If it lists one
>>> SOURCE, or PUT request per track, than this is the problem (and the
>>> source client is having some issue). If you see only one SOURCE, or PUT
>>> request for each runtime of the source client, then it does at least
>>> this correctly.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a public URI to your stream so we can have a look?
>>>
>>>
>>> With best regards,
>>>
>>>
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