an7ar35/ctune

nCurses internet radio player for Linux

ctune's Issues

Native pipewire as sound server ?

Thanks for tool , please add pipewire native server.

No audio in pulse and buffer overruns in ctune log

Pre-requirements:

• Pulse audio installed
• ctune's config file has IO::Plugin::SoundServer=pulse
• Pipewire later installed, more specifically pipewire-session-manager (directly or as part of dependencies)¹

Symptoms:

• No sound with pulse but sometimes works if first launched before any other sound applications
• Buffer overruns in ctune's log and no sound on playing a station
• pulseaudio Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended. in the journalctl log
• Firefox has trouble playing any video/audio content but "unblock" if the sound output profile is changed back and forth in the system's audio output panel (in KDE it's the 'audio' panel)

Solution:
Replace pulse audio with pipewire-pulse (via package manager).

Why:
Both pulse audio and pipewire are fighting each other. There can be only one.

Footnotes

1. Check with systemctl --user list-unit-files | grep pipewire ↩

Error: 'Failed to capture next audio frame' leads to audio stop

Running ctune 1.2.0 on Arch + Konsole (latest)

While playing a stream, occasionally (every 5-10 minutes, depending on station) will get the error in the title.
Can resume playing by hitting the 'r' key.

Attached log while running --debug.

I experience the issue more frequently on this station: "Technolovers DRUM N BASS"
but it happens on other stations as well.

Rather than stopping completely, I would expect the playback to resume as soon as possible. Maybe there would be an audio drop for a second while the buffers catch up, but not a complete stop just for missing a frame. I have to switch back to the terminal and hit 'r' whenever this happens.

I realize this is ffmpeg throwing the error, but maybe it could be restarted, just logging the error?

ctune_audio_stop.log

resizing Konsole window leads to core dump

While running, grab a corner of the Konsole window (running in Arch, btw ;) and resize. I get the following:

double free or corruption (out)
Aborted (core dumped)

Let me know if you want me to grab a file or run with --debug or anything.
Thanks for the cool tool!