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Just installed Asset. Client can select and play files. Client can select and appear to play internet radio stations, but there is no sound. What to do?
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Playing device is a Netgear MP-101.
While MP-101 "appears" to play a radio stream, its displayed elapsed time counter remains at 00:00.Comment
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Re: Hear Internet Radio
Try installing Renaissance (a software UPnP player and see if the PC can play a UPnP Radio station):
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I tried Renaissance, along with Asset Control Point. The result was similar.
I first verified I could play files. When I tried to play radio stations, I got no sound. I noticed that the Play/Pause button spontaneously changed state every few seconds while attempting to play a radio stream.Comment
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Possibly either your firewall or internet router which is blocking the radio stream.Comment
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I turned off the firewall on the server machine.
On the same server machine, I fired up the Netgear UPnP server that came with the MP-101. The MP-101 was able to access it and play radio stations.
Asset Control Point was able to access the Netgear server. When it displayed a list of radio stations, they were unselectable. An icon of a note covered by a cross-out circle appeared to the left of each listing. Asset Control Point became unable to read the list of stations. Terminating and restarting it fixed that problem, but the stations remained unselectable.
When the MP-101 is connected to Asset UPnP server and a radio station list displayed, selecting one of them appears to work. However, no sound is heard and the elapsed time meter does not toll. When that selection is abandoned, and the same or another station subsequently selected, the MP-101 reboots.
Is it possible the router could be blocking radio streams for Asset UPnP, but not for the Netgear server? Why should streams from the Netgear server be unplayable on Asset Control Point? Windows firewall is turned off on the machine that is running Control Point.Comment
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What is your router? Once when developing internet radio it stopped working for a few hours, so I recompiled all the code as debug and began tracing what was failing. In the end something had happened to the netgear router and a simple reboot of the router restored internet radio...Comment
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The Netgear will be streaming mp3, where as Asset streams WMA.Comment
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Hmmm... would router settings affect the type of stream that can be acquired?
If so, could I test this theory by attempting to stream a radio station that does not offer a wma stream, but does offer mp3?
Is there something that should be changed in the router to enable wma streams?Comment
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You can test a mp3 stream yes, if you look at www.radiotime.com and browse a stream which is only mp3 (and does not appear for wma) then try to stream it.Comment
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I found a local station, KRTY, that offers only mp3. For good measure, I unchecked all non-mp3 media types in my RadioTime account.
When I looked for KRTY on the MP-101 via Asset UPnP, it did not appear. When I looked at local stations via Asset Control Point, *none* appeared.
After re-checking other media types at RadioTime, local stations re-appeared via Asset Control Point. KRTY was not among them.
Does this mean that Asset UPnP will not stream any station that does not offer wma? Or include it in a menu?
KRTY streamed fine via browser.Comment
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Sorry I did not mention you need Asset v3 (in the beta section) to list mp3 radio stations.Comment
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