Airtime sometimes cuts tracks in half
  • Vote Up0Vote Down dave macddave macd
    Posts: 14Member
    Hi

    i posted this to the programmers as well, but wonder if anyone else has similar issues


    i play mixed sets of approx 1 hour on the radio - but for some reason - sets which have uploaded correctly, suddenly have their play time halved as per the the 2 slim images attached 

    if i preview the file- it is full length, but if i program it into a show, it will only play the reduced length  - as per the larger image


    can anyone help ?

    thansk

    dave


    Post edited by dave macd at 2015-04-07 05:51:28
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Ярослав ГребневЯрослав Гребнев
    Posts: 43Member
    Hi! If you have installed airtime on Ubuntu 14.04, your problem described here: https://forum.sourcefabric.org/discussion/17080/please-fix-asap-silan-cuein-cueout/p1
  • Vote Up0Vote Down dave macddave macd
    Posts: 14Member
    Hi

    thanks for the suggestion but the problem is not with Cue in and cue out - the MP3 length in the library is wrong

    i can confirm it is Ubuntu 14.04 

    this issue does not happen with every set - probably about half of them  - i end up having to re upload  and simply hope it works


    eventually i want to use FTP to transfer files - im not sure if that will solve the problem

    thanks for any adivce

    dave
    Post edited by dave macd at 2015-04-07 08:02:27
  • Vote Up0Vote Down John ChewterJohn Chewter
    Posts: 899Member
    "...but the problem is not with Cue in and cue out - the MP3 length in the library is wrong"

    Yes, I know is sounds unlikely, but, Silan DOES cause that and there is a fix.
    No longer using Airtime or Libretime.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down dave macddave macd
    Posts: 14Member
    Great news  - thank you both for pointing me in the right direction

    i will do as you suggest and see if it works

    Thanks again :)

  • Vote Up0Vote Down dave macddave macd
    Posts: 14Member
    Airtime Tech support replied with this message -  if anyone else has a similar issue  this is what they said


    Hi Dave,

    This problem is almost definitely because of a bug in the "silan" utility that we use. 

    Are you on Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04?
    This bug was fixed after 14.04 was released and there's an updated package for silan in our APT repo:


    thanks to the forum members and the tech support - i am grateful for your assistance 

    Dave
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Roger WilcoRoger Wilco
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    What's generally considered to be the best way to go about disabling silan altogether?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down M. Omer GolgeliM. Omer Golgeli
    Posts: 33Member
    I can confirm that Debian Jessie had the exact same problem. Wish I knew there's a fix by then...
  • Vote Up0Vote Down M. Omer GolgeliM. Omer Golgeli
    Posts: 33Member
    And it still does cut tracks in half it seems.
    I'm going to go for the fix mentioned above but...
    Any chance integrating the fix in the core?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Roger WilcoRoger Wilco
    Posts: 784Banned
    The real fix is just to remove silan. Honestly it might help on a track or two here and there out of thousands. But it's absolutely far too computationally expensive for the achieved results -- or in this case -- the lack thereof. All it does in its current form is ruin the output of perfectly good content and cause log jams during ingest.
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