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Bug or restrictions or?

Postby XploD » 25 Mar 2015, 10:14

Hello, I tried RuneAudio for the first time and it's amazing! The UI looks brilliant, everything works without problems (Raspberry Pi model B, ELE EL-D01 DAC, TP-Link WN722N Wi-Fi) and it's amazing how fast it boots. But there are a few things which make this pointless for my needs and I don't know whether it's a bug, if it's due to some Pi's restrictions or a very bad idea. If it's not a bug, don't take this as complaining or something, it's just a positive criticism with the best of intentions or more like a suggestion ;)

1) When I close WebUI, it continues to play but next time when I start WebUI, it will stop the playback and erase my queue list. Is this a bug or? Because the whole point of having an other music player than PC is for it to be completely stand-alone, independent of the computer. Like this, it actually isn't because as soon as I turn off WebUI, it's over.

There are tons of situations why this isn't very good. For example, I create some queue playlist and listen to music. When I have to go to work, I will pause playback and turn off my PC. But when I return from work. I want to continue listening where I left off, but when I turn on my PC and open WebUI, it will erase my queue list. Situation no. 2: I'm listening to music with WebUI opened on my PC. And then I go to kitchen to prepare lunch and I don't like the current song, so I will take my smartphone to skip song, but when I start WebUI on my smartphone, it will stop playback and reset everything :( Or for example this morning I had a situation where I started it from my smartphone because I wanted to listen to music while my PC was booting up and then I made a few phone calls and pictures with camera, I run out of RAM on my phone so it killed the browser. Next time I returned to WebUI to change song, it reloaded browser and WebUI and again it killed my play session :(

And also I don't know which distro is running in the background and if it's even possible but I planned to set up LIRC to be able to use RuneAudio with IR remote and to put a 4x20 LCD display to show info. So I can open WebUI, create a queue playlist and then close WebUI and use it only with remote. And when I want to change the playlist, just open WebUI and do some changes. But like this, It wouldn't be possible since re-opening WebUI would restart playback and erase queue.

Is it possible to fix this somehow so Pi is a stand-alone player and WebUI is used only to control the playback (to send commands to Pi and receive info to show)? Otherwise I will have to do something on my own, because this is useless to me :( And I really like it and want to use it!

2) I shared a folder from my laptop with 150 GB of music and also connected my external 500 GB HDD, both of them work like a charm. It took quite a while to scan library and update the database, but I expected this, it's a lot of data and this wouldn't be a problem if it's done once in the beggining. But after rebooting my Pi, I have to manually mount shared folder everytime and it rescans the library again. Why? Waiting for 10 minutes or even more every time I turn on my Pi is not really an option.

3) This is probably a bug: volume "knob" often dissapears from WebUI and I have to minimize-maximize browser window or change its size and it reapears again. It happens on my phone as well (both browsers are Chrome).

I hope I was not too harsh :) These are just my suggestions since like this, it's completely useless for me if the Pi depends on it's client. I will rather use my PC as audio source because it will preserve my queue even after closing Winamp and turning off my PC.

EDIT: I forgot to tell that I can't access WebUI with http://RuneAudio or http://RuneAudio.local, but I found it's IP adress in my router so I access it with http://IP-address, but I don't tink that this affects something.
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Audio source: Raspberry Pi 2 + Sabre ES9023 DAC + WD 500 GB HDD + TP-Link TL-WN722N Wi-Fi + D-LINK Dub H7 USB hub
Hi-Fi:
Mixer: Nady Audio MM-242
Misc: Tube Stereo Vumeter (Magic Eye)
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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby ACX » 25 Mar 2015, 13:40

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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby XploD » 25 Mar 2015, 14:27

Thank you for your answer. I assumed that it's a problem. Otherwise, this whole thing would be useless if depending of clients. The playback doesn't stop when I close the client, but when I open the client again. So if I close the client, it will continue to play and also after the song is finished, it will continue to play the next one on the playlist. But when I open the client again, it just breaks.

I somehow managed to break it completely. It wasn't saving any settings I changed (so I was unable to turn DEV mode on to update it) and it didn't react on Shutdown or Reboot so I unplugged the Pi and plugged it back again. I can see it in my router that it's connected but when I try to access it I'm getting 404 error. I will probably try to install it from scratch, and then see if it will have the same issues.

About drives, it actually does the update from it. I connected a 500 GB Western Digital USB 3.0 external HDD and it's connected to the Pi through powered USB hub. Are you trying to say that USB drives have bugs or doesn't work? If so, from where am I supposed to listen to music? :D My 150 GB collection of music cannot fit on my 16 GB SD card :lol: and using shared disk from laptop will again make it non-headless since it will depend about whether is my laptop on or not.
Music taste:
Audio source: Raspberry Pi 2 + Sabre ES9023 DAC + WD 500 GB HDD + TP-Link TL-WN722N Wi-Fi + D-LINK Dub H7 USB hub
Hi-Fi:
Mixer: Nady Audio MM-242
Misc: Tube Stereo Vumeter (Magic Eye)
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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby ACX » 25 Mar 2015, 14:47

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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby XploD » 25 Mar 2015, 21:35

Music taste:
Audio source: Raspberry Pi 2 + Sabre ES9023 DAC + WD 500 GB HDD + TP-Link TL-WN722N Wi-Fi + D-LINK Dub H7 USB hub
Hi-Fi:
Mixer: Nady Audio MM-242
Misc: Tube Stereo Vumeter (Magic Eye)
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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby XploD » 25 Aug 2015, 09:08

Music taste:
Audio source: Raspberry Pi 2 + Sabre ES9023 DAC + WD 500 GB HDD + TP-Link TL-WN722N Wi-Fi + D-LINK Dub H7 USB hub
Hi-Fi:
Mixer: Nady Audio MM-242
Misc: Tube Stereo Vumeter (Magic Eye)
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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby hondagx35 » 25 Aug 2015, 09:31

Hi XploD,

is it possible for you to post your ?

Maybe your file system gets mounted read only, because of corruption after the power loss.
This is a common problem on such devices like RaspberryPi, but we are working on a solution.

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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby XploD » 25 Aug 2015, 09:46

Yes, here it is: http://pastebin.com/1U2z2dtt

Is there any way to fix it? It's a fresh image but yesterday I spent the whole day for installing I2C, LIRC, Python dependencies and everything. Also I have some playlists and lots of web radios so I want to avoid reinstalling it again.
Music taste:
Audio source: Raspberry Pi 2 + Sabre ES9023 DAC + WD 500 GB HDD + TP-Link TL-WN722N Wi-Fi + D-LINK Dub H7 USB hub
Hi-Fi:
Mixer: Nady Audio MM-242
Misc: Tube Stereo Vumeter (Magic Eye)
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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby hondagx35 » 25 Aug 2015, 09:56

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Re: Bug or restrictions or?

Postby XploD » 25 Aug 2015, 10:20

Music taste:
Audio source: Raspberry Pi 2 + Sabre ES9023 DAC + WD 500 GB HDD + TP-Link TL-WN722N Wi-Fi + D-LINK Dub H7 USB hub
Hi-Fi:
Mixer: Nady Audio MM-242
Misc: Tube Stereo Vumeter (Magic Eye)
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