Station plays first song in list on a continuous loop ignoring the rest in the list.

[carrzkiss]

Hello, All.

This just started happening the other evening. The stream plays the first song in the list repeatedly.
It is almost as if it only imports the .ts files for that one song and then loops the heck out of it.
==UPDATE==
reload_mode = 'rounds' (This will play all songs, but the updates are many songs between.)
reload_mode = 'seconds' (This will ONLY play the first track over and over again.)
reload_mode = 'watch' (This will ONLY play the first track over and over again, not matter how many times I add another track, it will not reload the list, not even with a 101.m3u file.)
Another Update
I read where Toots said that having better control over your playlist is to have an m3u file.
I tried, but it still replays the first song over and over again.

(One track per line.)
I wanted to try something.
When loading the "101.asp" file in Chrome, it would have all the songs on a single line.
Then I tried using 101.txt and loaded it into Chrome, and each song is on its own line.
But it does not matter; It will still play the first track repeatedly.
101.txt (These are 15-second clips to test.)

https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/01 - Me against the world-001.mp3
https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/02 - Lizzy Borden - Shock-001.mp3
https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/03 - Lizzy Borden - Outcast-001.mp3
https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/04 - Lizzy Borden - Den Of Thieves-001.mp3
https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/05 - Lizzy Borden - Visual Lies-001.mp3
https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/06 - Lizzy Borden - Eyes Of A Stranger-001.mp3
https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/07 - Lizzy Borden - Lord Of The Flies-001.mp3
https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/08 - Lizzy Borden - Voyeur (I'm Watching You)-001.mp3
https://demo.example.com/host/Files/Short/09 - Lizzy Borden - Visions-001.mp3

If I add a song to the list, say I put it in as the second song, the list will update. After the first song plays, it will play the second song. THEN, it will jump back to the first song and repeatedly play the first song and the new second song.

This is my 101.liq

# This is from my original Icecast/Liquidsoap script
# log dir
set ("log.file.path","/var/log/liquidsoap/101.log")
set("scheduler.fast_queues",1)
# Music
music = playlist(mode = 'normal', reload = 1, reload_mode = 'seconds', "https://www.example.com/DJ/101.asp")


# Update title metadata when both artist and title are present.
def hls_meta(m) =
  title = m["title"]
  artist = m["artist"]
  if artist != "" and title != "" then
#    [("title", "#{artist} - #{title}")]
[...list.assoc.remove("artist", m), ("title", "#{artist} - #{title}")]
 else
    m
  end

end

# Start building the feed with music
 radio101 = metadata.map(update=false, hls_meta,music)
 music.on_metadata(print)
#radio101 = music

# ===========================================
# Provide by gAlleb on March 24, 2024
# (https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap/issues/3825#issuecomment-2018942115)
# ===========================================
# Stream it out
radio101 = mksafe(radio101)

# For Station101
# Define 3 streams with different bitrates. You can make 1 or 2 streams (as you wish).

aac_lofi = %ffmpeg(
    format="mpegts",
    %audio(
        codec="aac",
        samplerate=44100,
        channels=2,
        b="96k",
        profile="aac_low"
    )
)
aac_midfi = %ffmpeg(
    format="mpegts",
    %audio(
        codec="aac",
        samplerate=44100,
        channels=2,
        b="128k",
        profile="aac_low"
    )
)
aac_hifi = %ffmpeg(
    format="mpegts",
    %audio(
        codec="aac",
        samplerate=44100,
        channels=2,
        b="192k",
        profile="aac_low"
    )
)

# Put them all together
hls_streams = [("aac_lofi", aac_lofi), ("aac_midfi", aac_midfi), ("aac_hifi", aac_hifi)]

# Make interesting names for your segments
def hls_segment_name(~position,~extname,stream_name) =
    timestamp = int_of_float(time())
    duration = 4
    "#{stream_name}_#{duration}_#{timestamp}_#{position}.#{extname}"
end

output.file.hls(playlist="radio101.m3u8",
    segment_duration=4.0,
    segments=5,
    segments_overhead=2,
    segment_name=hls_segment_name,
#
# Please note that you need to indicate here the real paths to your nginx server.
# They would probably be /var/www/html/...
#
#    persist_at="/var/www/html/hls/persist",
#    "/var/www/html/hls/",

#                streams_info=streams_info,
#                persist=true,

    persist_at="/var/www/stream.example.com/hls/101/persist",
               "/var/www/stream.example.com/hls/101/",


    hls_streams,
    radio101
)

#Set permissions on the following folders.
#1st
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/stream.example.com
#2nd
sudo usermod -a -G www-data liquid
#3rd
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/stream.example.com/hls
#4th
sudo chmod -R g+rws /var/www/stream.example.com/hls

running this.
ls -alR /var/www/stream.example.com/

Output

/var/www/stream.example.com/:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 2 07:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 2 07:25 ..
drwxrwsr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 3 18:13 hls
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 362 Apr 2 07:41 index.html

/var/www/stream.example.com/hls:
total 16
drwxrwsr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 3 18:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 2 07:41 ..
drwxrwsr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 3 18:26 101
drwxrwsr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 3 18:13 102

/var/www/stream.example.com/hls/101:
total 2008
drwxrwsr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 3 18:26 .
drwxrwsr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 3 18:13 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 141940 Apr 3 18:26 aac_hifi_4_1712183171_14752.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 143068 Apr 3 18:26 aac_hifi_4_1712183175_14753.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 142504 Apr 3 18:26 aac_hifi_4_1712183179_14754.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 141188 Apr 3 18:26 aac_hifi_4_1712183183_14755.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 142692 Apr 3 18:26 aac_hifi_4_1712183187_14756.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 141188 Apr 3 18:26 aac_hifi_4_1712183191_14757.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 354 Apr 3 18:26 aac_hifi.m3u8
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 80464 Apr 3 18:26 aac_lofi_4_1712183171_14752.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 80840 Apr 3 18:26 aac_lofi_4_1712183175_14753.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 80464 Apr 3 18:26 aac_lofi_4_1712183179_14754.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 80464 Apr 3 18:26 aac_lofi_4_1712183183_14755.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 80652 Apr 3 18:26 aac_lofi_4_1712183187_14756.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 80840 Apr 3 18:26 aac_lofi_4_1712183191_14757.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 354 Apr 3 18:26 aac_lofi.m3u8
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 110732 Apr 3 18:26 aac_midfi_4_1712183171_14752.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 111296 Apr 3 18:26 aac_midfi_4_1712183175_14753.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 110356 Apr 3 18:26 aac_midfi_4_1712183179_14754.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 111484 Apr 3 18:26 aac_midfi_4_1712183183_14755.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 111108 Apr 3 18:26 aac_midfi_4_1712183187_14756.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 109416 Apr 3 18:26 aac_midfi_4_1712183191_14757.ts
-rw-r--r-- 1 liquid liquid 359 Apr 3 18:26 aac_midfi.m3u8
-rw-rwSr-- 1 www-data www-data 238 Apr 3 18:05 radio101.m3u8

/var/www/stream.example.com/hls/102:
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 3 18:13 .
drwxrwsr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 3 18:13 ..

101.log

2024/04/03 18:33:26 [decoder.ffmpeg:3] Requested content-type for "/tmp/liq-processa9643b.mp3": {audio=pcm(stereo)}

2024/04/03 18:33:26 [decoder.ffmpeg:3] FFmpeg recognizes "/tmp/liq-processa9643b.mp3" as audio: {codec: mp3, 44100Hz, 2 channel(s)}, video: {codec: mjpeg, 600x596, yuvj420p}

2024/04/03 18:33:26 [decoder.ffmpeg:3] Decoded content-type for "/tmp/liq-processa9643b.mp3": {audio=pcm(stereo)}

2024/04/03 18:33:26 [decoder.ffmpeg:3] Requested content-type for "/tmp/liq-processe516d2.mp3": {audio=pcm(stereo)}

2024/04/03 18:33:26 [decoder.ffmpeg:3] FFmpeg recognizes "/tmp/liq-processe516d2.mp3" as audio: {codec: mp3, 44100Hz, 2 channel(s)}, video: {codec: mjpeg, 600x593, yuvj420p}

2024/04/03 18:33:26 [decoder.ffmpeg:3] Decoded content-type for "/tmp/liq-processe516d2.mp3": {audio=pcm(stereo)}

2024/04/03 18:33:27 [101.asp:3] Reloading playlist with URI https://www.example.com/DJ/101.asp.

2024/04/03 18:33:27 [procol.external:3] Failed to find a file extension for "https://www.example.com/DJ/101.asp". Response has unknown mime-type: "text/html" you may want to add it to settings.http.mime.extnames and report to us if it is a common one.

The Journal Log shows the same song running in a forever loop.

Journal Log

Apr 03 18:33:38 linuxserver liquidsoap[844]: [("album", "W.A.S.P."), ("date", "1984"), ("on_air_timestamp", "1712183618.00"), ("kind", "{audio=pcm(stereo)}"), ("year", "1984"), ("catalog", "at>

Apr 03 18:33:38 linuxserver liquidsoap[844]: [mp3float @ 0x7f8c07a5e700] Could not update timestamps for skipped samples.

Apr 03 18:33:37 linuxserver liquidsoap[844]: [mp3float @ 0x7f8c07a5e200] Could not update timestamps for discarded samples.

Ran a restart
sudo systemctl restart liquidsoap@101

Journal Log

Apr 03 18:39:00 linuxserver liquidsoap[6419]: [("album", "W.A.S.P."), ("date", "1984"), ("on_air_timestamp", "1712183940.00"), ("kind", "{audio=pcm(stereo)}"), ("year", "1984"), ("catalog", "a>

Apr 03 18:39:00 linuxserver liquidsoap[6419]: [mp3float @ 0x7fbf6d25e700] Could not update timestamps for skipped samples.

Apr 03 18:38:59 linuxserver liquidsoap[6419]: [mpegts @ 0x7fbf91b8aa00] frame size not set

Apr 03 18:38:59 linuxserver liquidsoap[6419]: [mpegts @ 0x7fbf901dda00] frame size not set

Apr 03 18:38:59 linuxserver liquidsoap[6419]: [mpegts @ 0x7fbf920fdc00] frame size not set

[vitoyucepi]

Hi @carrzkiss,

Failed to find a file extension for "https://www.example.com/DJ/101.asp". Response has unknown mime-type: "text/html" you may want to add it to settings.http.mime.extnames and report to us if it is a common one.

I can't make this line disappear on my setup, so I think it's normal.

playlist(mode = 'normal', reload = 1, reload_mode = 'seconds', "https://www.example.com/DJ/101.asp")

This means you'll reload the playlist every second, combined with mode="normal" means you'll always play the first item in the list.
If you want to randomize the songs, use mode="random" instead, but 1 second is way too often.

(This will play all songs, but the updates are many songs between.)

I don't get it, but I think once a full playlist is not frequent enough.

reload_mode = 'watch'

For local files only. You can't watch files over http. There is an exception, but I'd like to make this option intentionally hidden.

[carrzkiss]

Vito
Reload every 10 seconds?
I have to mention that reloading means dropping the rest of the playlist and loading new items.

OK, thank you, did not know that. (learning.)

[vitoyucepi]

If you want to inject a song, request.queue is the best way to do it.
There's a section about this in The Book on page 87.

[carrzkiss]

Thanks, Vito.

I will have to figure out how to run a telnet command from the website's DJ Panel.
I will likely have to use asp.net to do it.

I am looking at the code. Would it be something like this in my case?

music = playlist(mode='normal',reload=1, reload_mode='rounds', "https://www.example.com/DJ/101.m3u")
queue = request.queue()
radio = fallback(track_sensitive=false, [queue, music])

would this
output(radio)
be this
output.file.hls(playlist="radio101.m3u8"

It will be cool to test this out, which I can do through a cmd prompt.

[vitoyucepi]

I'd like to point out that you can use the http api instead of telnet.
Check it out at https://www.liquidsoap.info/doc-2.2.4/harbor_http.html.

[carrzkiss]

Thank you, Vito.
A lot of options using the harbor-http
I like the metadata one.
I just need more information on how to use it.
If I can use it to grab the metadata, I will leave my links the way they are in liq files.
But if it is the same issue as not being able to grab from distant link sources, I will change everything over and work on the local link and file loads, for which I already have the drive mounted.

I will open another discussion on this one.
Thank you.

[vitoyucepi]

If you want to collect journal logs without a pager, use the following command
journalctl --no-pager -u liquidsoap@101.
If you'd like to view logs without line truncation, pipe it to less like this
journalctl -u liquidsoap@101 | less, or with the environment variable SYSTEMD_LESS=FRXMK journalctl -u liquidsoap@101.

[carrzkiss]

I will add them to my list of commands.
love this journalctl --no-pager -u liquidsoap@101

[vitoyucepi]

I don't always remember the --no-pager, so I often pipe something to cat, like this journalctl -u liquidsoap@101 | cat.

[carrzkiss]

OK, I wondered how to do it with a cat.