Libretime: Some songs are cut short

[techbp]

Example:
a song is supposedly be played at a duration of 4:31sec, but when it's streamed it's being cut short at 2:10sec ...

Not all songs but it happens more often than not

[JohnnyC1951]

This is a common problem in Libretime and Airtime and it is due to a broken Silan program in some versions.
See the Release Notes 'Known Issues' for version 3.0.0 alpha 3 here.. https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime/releases and read ALL of it. Contains other fixes too,

[techbp]

Thanks! Checking...

[techbp]

Ok, I believe this is a Silan issue based from the link you provided. I have checked the Silan version in my server and it is 0.3.2-1build1
I'm running an Ubuntu Trusty in the background.

Should I upgrade to 0.3.3 Silan ?

Also what if I uninstall it, what will happen to my streaming? I suspect there's no cue in /cue out? Or the whole streaming will not work?

Thank you

[JohnnyC1951]

I would follow the advice in the 'Known Issues'.
If you uninstall it, it will work, but you may get excess silence on the front or back of an odd track, and lots of errors in the Analyser Log (so keep an eye in the size of that). Also, the 'screwed up' tracks will stay 'screwed up' as they will now have the cue points stored in them. So either delete and reimport them from the panel or.. someone wrote a script to reprocess them. Search this 'GIT Issues' for 'Silan'.

[techbp]

Thanks for your advice. I followed this https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime/issues/214
but I can't dpkg (see error):

sudo dpkg -i silan_0.3.3~nmu1_armhf.deb
dpkg: error processing archive silan_0.3.3~nmu1_armhf.deb (--install):
package architecture (armhf) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
silan_0.3.3~nmu1_armhf.deb

[JohnnyC1951]

Well, it says you have an Intel/AMD Machine, but are trying to install a package designed for an ARM Machine (example: Raspberry Pi). Look for a deb for AMD 64bit machines and it should install.

[techbp]

Thank you so much! I didn't noticed that. Now my problem is I can't install it. The package is looking for dependencies. This is the package:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/amd64/silan/0.3.3-1

and the dependencies at the bottom of the page. I'm trying to install one by one but it fails since it's looking for dependencies. Now I'm looking for available complete package, but it seems I can't find any :-(

[JohnnyC1951]

Are you using the Airtime Repo? For now, why not just uninstall it? The team are trying to fix this for the next release, I believe.

[techbp]

I downloaded it from LibreTime here in github and installed it using the command ./install from command line. Oh, then that's a great news then 👍 Thanks for the letting me know

[hairmare]

@JohnnyC1951 Thanks for helping us triage issues. This is very much appreciated!

[danyjcms]

Any news on getting this fixed? Thanks!

[JohnnyC1951]

Using the 'upstream' Silan from the the Sourcefabric as described in the last release notes DOES WORK, at least on Ubuntu Trusty. :) I used it for months.

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://apt.sourcefabric.org/ trusty main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sourcefabric-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall silan=0.3.2~trusty~sfo-1
sudo apt-mark hold silan

(The one described and put in Hairmare's repo does not install here. I get 'Not found'.)

[hairmare]

Duplicate of #177