Stories get cut off
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Sixten TolletSixten Tollet
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    Hi all,

    I installed Airtime a few days ago (2.5.2.1) on Ubuntu, everything works great.  One problem though ...
    If I read correctly, soundfiles are analysed for silence detection, and cues are set automaticly to prevent silence ?

    Yesterday I brought my station online, and as we are a station with narrations (no music), there's a lot of "dramatic" silent space too.
    I noticed many stories are cut off early, probably due to silence detection ?

    Can I turn this feature off ???
    For our station this is really an unwanted feature :)

    Thanks for your kind support
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  • Vote Up1Vote Down Roger WilcoRoger Wilco
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    The trick is to toss " silan "
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Sixten TolletSixten Tollet
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    Addendum : I just checked the cue out timings, and nothing seems wrong with them. But I noticed someting imortant, wich is causing the problem, it's got something to do with cache/buffer I guess :

    Airtime plays the first track completely till the end and starts the next track.
    The mediaplayer plays the first track, and gets behind ... still finishing the first track while Airtime already is transmitting the second track.
    The mediaplayer seems to notice it's behind as Airtime is already playing another track, so it skips the track without finishing it clean and starts the next track.

    Help :) ... How can I fix this buffer ?
    Post edited by Sixten Tollet at 2016-09-19 05:30:58
  • Vote Up0Vote Down MannexMannex
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    I've noticed the same issue on my installation. If I go in to manually edit the tracks, I can see that they are not set to play the entire track, and then I have to manually drag the end of the play to the actual end of the track. I have to do this with each track. Which, of course, is quite inconvenient (and a reason that I've been mixing with Mixxx and then putting the hour-long mixes up instead). It would be nice to get some kind of fix for this!
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Sixten TolletSixten Tollet
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    Thanks Roger,

    This solved the problem indeed.  After you mentioned "silan" I found out I was not the only one suffering from this.

    This is how I solved it :

    I check wich version was installed with silan | grep Version
    Downloaded the correct package to the server.
    Ran the following command from the console:
    dpkg -i silan_0.3.2-trusty-sfo-1_amd64.deb;sudo apt-mark hold silan;dpkg -s silan | grep Version

    This will install the updated Silan package, put it on hold to prevent Ubuntu updates from overwriting it and finally display the current version.

    Everything works smooth now
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Voisses TechVoisses Tech
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    https://forum.sourcefabric.org/discussion/17273/bugfix-silan-packages-for-ubuntu-14-04-lts-trusty-now-available/p1
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