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Chris Pollock
Asked: 2018-04-07 14:55:10 +0800 CST

Getting XMMS2 to connect to streaminig audio

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I've decided to resurrect GKrellm on my Ubuntu 16.04 box as I liked the various options for monitoring and other things it does. I installed the GKrellmms plug-in as when previously running it I liked the option of streaming live audio with it. Now however I'm having a problem getting that to work. I want to stream from this site http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/oggflac/live.pls?service=ac When the link is highlighted on the site and "save link as" is selected it's saved as a .pls file (playlist). The link is then shown as http://icecast-beta.timlradio.co.uk/absoluteclassicrock.ogg Per the XMMS2 WIKI at https://github.com/xmms2/wiki/wiki/Using-the-application

Listen to a shoutcast stream (assuming curl plugin is installed) 
using the direct url (ie NOT a playlist file, but the url inside 
the playlist file, the playlist importing code is currently disabled). 
If you don't require a proxy skip the "config" lines:
xmms2 server config curl.proxyaddress your.proxy.address.com:1080  
xmms2 server config curl.useproxy 1  xmms2 add http://207.200.96.225:8020 xmms2 play

I'm 'assuming' that listening to an icecast stream would be the same or similar to a shoutcast stream I entered this at the xmms2> prompt:

xmms2> add http://icecast-beta.timlradio.co.uk/absoluteclassicrock.ogg

then xmms2> play - however, I get no audio. The XMMS2d log at ~/.cache/xmms2 shows:

17:17:58 ERROR: ../src/xmms/xform.c:1341: Couldn't set up chain for 'http://icecast-beta.timlradio.co.uk/absoluteclassicrock.ogg' (5)
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxcb_connection_has_error() returned true

I can however load up music from my ~/Music folder into a playlist from the gxmms2 frontend. I can load the tracks that are there. The xmms2d log shows

17:34:22  INFO: ../src/xmms/xform.c:1364: Successfully setup chain for 'file:///home/chris/Music /BENT+OUT+OF+SHAPE+-+RAINBOW+-+1983+-+RAINBOW+-+03+-+Fool+For+The+Night+.mp3'   (4) containing file:magic:id3v2:magic:mad:segment

Pressing xmms2> play at the prompt will play the above selection. NOTE: I can put the URL http://icecast-beta.timlradio.co.uk into Audacious and it plays just fine.

I've installed the xmms2 plug-ins from here - https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/xmms2-plugin-all into /usr/lib/xmms2.

Another option I tried is I converted the URL into an IP with the port for icecast added - http://34.244.146.50:443 still nothing.

09:49:01 ERROR: ../src/xmms/xform.c:1341: Couldn't set up chain for 'http://34.244.146.50:443' (5)
09:56:23 ERROR: ../src/xmms/xform.c:1341: Couldn't set up chain for 'http://34.244.146.50:443' (5)

I hope this isn't too confusing and that I've added enough information to possibly get an answer.

music streaming xmms

1 Answers

  1. The approach described in this website worked fine for me.

    OS: Lubuntu 20.04, with PulseAudio

    To summarize:

    1. Start xmms2, and set the environment variable core.ipcsocket by running
    xmms2> server config core.ipcsocket "unix:///tmp/xmms-ipc-<your_username>;tcp://[::]:9667"

    or by editing the core.ipcsocket tag in ~/.config/xmms2/xmms2.conf

    1. Verify xmms2 can see the change by running
    xmms2> server config core.ipcsocket
core.ipcsocket = unix:///tmp/xmms-ipc-<your_username>;tcp://[::]:9667

    and ensuring the output comes out as above, with no errors.

    1. xmms2 must show the opened port in netstat on a command prompt, now
    netstat -an | grep 9667
tcp6       0      0 :::9667         :::*            LISTEN
    1. That was it, pretty much
    xmms2> add http://netpd.org:8010/64k.mp3
xmms2> play

    had audio pop out with not much fuss. Not sure if all this effort can be short circuited by just installing a client like lxmusic, which seems to be the latest stable xmms2 client.

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