Sound drops out after 11-13 seconds

[Jim Henderson]

I've installed the spotlight plugin on OpenELEC 4.0.5 (running Gotham) installed on a Raspberry Pi, and the navigation generally works well, but after about 11-13 seconds, the audio stops playing, though the track time keeps increasing.

What information would be useful to diagnose this issue, or is it a known issue? I wasn't able to locate an open issue that described what I'm seeing.

Thanks

[Mika Hyttinen]

Same problem here on HTPC, tested with OpenELEC and Ubuntu 14.04. No audio issues with Windows 8.1 however.

[chimosh .]

Same problem. Sound stops playing after 4-5mins for me, usual after a track has finished playing in an album.

Using XMBC stand-alone install.

[Matthew Thode]

This sounds kinda like this bug https://bitbucket.org/re/spotlight/issue/29/failure-to-fetch-music

[Dariusz Biskup]

If unchecking "Search for embedded lyrics" in the lyrics plugin doesn't help you may try completely uninstalling the lyrics plugin.

[Jim Henderson]

I don't actually have the lyrics plugin installed, so that's probably not the issue I'm seeing. I don't know XBMC/OpenELEC well enough to know what logs I should be looking at, so if someone can point me at what information would help identify the problem, I'll be happy to provide that info.

[Matthew Thode]

Can you try to not have the song playing UI come up? I've found that helps, want to see if others can reproduce.

[Jim Henderson]

Is there a configuration option to do that, or is it just a UI interaction?

[Matthew Thode]

Just make sure that the art isn't loaded

I am testing disabling the http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on:Artwork_Downloader (the music video bit at least). I'll know in a few minutes if this is working.

[Matthew Thode]

still failed, when it is on the home screen it's good, but once it switched to the visualizer it got sad again, disabling everything I can of cu-lyrics (it's built into aeon-mq's dependancies).

[Matthew Thode]

seems good so far... going to say at this point to disable all of cu-lyrics' searching and the artwork for music videos, that seems good for now...

[Jim Henderson]

Thanks, Matthew - I've just checked my setup, though, and I'm not using either of those plugins (I've checked the entire system and I have no plugins by those names).

[Matthew Thode]

How about artist slideshow? that may be doing it as well, not sure though. and I've found using the search to be faster then manually going through the addons.

[graag]

In my case (Frodo running on OpenSUSE) I've noticed that after skipping a track marked as [not available] playback will continue with the next+1 track and will go silent after few seconds (after buffer runs out)? with playback progress still updating.

Could you verify if there is a correlation with [not available] tracks?

I created a pull request #4 with a workaround that works for me.

[bop bruce]

Have the same problem, but I suspect it is not strictly spotlight issue. I see exactly the same behavior when using spotimc - possibly the problem is with libspotify core or xbmc itself (or other plugins)? I run XBMC 13.2 on Win7 HTPC.

P.S. I have used spotimc for some time now (> 0.5 year), and I have never experienced such problems before.

[Cyrano Levuser]

The music always stops after a couple of seconds when the lyrics add-on CU LRC lyrics is enabled with option "embedded lyrics" switched on. A workaround is to disable embedded lyrics in that add-on. The bug is actually in Spotlight, as Spotify doesn't allow to get the stream 2 times (one for the music, one for the lyrics). Also other Spotify addons had the same issue (Spotimc fixed it in beta5) which required a change in both Spotimc and CU LRC Lyrics.

Please change the source code of Spotlight by setting the MusicPlayer.Property(do_not_analyze) to 'true'. this will tell cu lrc lyrics to skip searching for embedded lyrics.

https://github.com/ronie/script.cu.lrclyrics