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[quote author=Milky link=topic=6033.msg20565#msg20565 date=1599516963]
Hi Timmy. Nothing immediately springs to mind. Are you saying that the MP3s are clean outside of BA1? In another forum I Admin on, there are some recent comments about brand new Lenovo i7s inserting glitches in otherwise clean MP3 files, so maybe it's a Windows thing?
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Milky, my source audio files are 99% flac so what I’m describing are my streams. I have a 128kbps mp3 stream and a 64 kbps aac+ stream. I stream through baOne. My mp3 stream has audible glitches while my aac+ stream is clean.Yes, I'm using pipelines. From my playout system (Station Playlist) to Pipeline 1 into BreakawayOne. I am not sure why remote desktop would have anything to do with audio, unless it was "stealing" the audio from your radioDJ and blocking it from BaOne… I think you can disable all audio from Remote Desktop. Or, if you're using something other than Kernel Streaming in your input/output, that could be an issue. Selecting Kernel Streaming is also a way to lock down the audio channels from other things using them.
I've been using it on Windows 2016 since a few years ago. No issues. Solid as a rock. I think you just need to enable the windows audio services as they are not enabled by default. https://www.hostwinds.com/guide/enable-audio-on-windows-server-2016/
2004 is still beta though, right?? Let's not panic before the final version is actually released… Right?
George,
My Station Playlist simply produces a plain text file with only this info:
Artist – Title – Album
I chose File or URL for Metadata Source in the Overview tab of the Stream section. I then fill out the full path of that file. BaOne magically senses the file change, reads the file, then pushes it to my server. Just have to be sure you're pointing BaOne to the fully correct file path. Mine is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\StationPlaylist\HTMLPlaylist\playingnow.txt
For example.
As far as your automation/playout system, I can only really speak of Station Playlist. I've not used any others. I would assume that most have the option to produce text files for Now Playing info. Just a matter of figuring it out.
Hope that helps.
I have my playout produce a text file, then point breakaway streamer to that text file. You have the option of a URL or file path.
http://ecmc.rochester.edu/ecmc/docs/lame/switchs.html
Look at the first note under the grid: For WAV and AIFF input files, using "-m m" will always produce a mono .mp3 file from both mono and stereo input.
I found if you set your encoder to Custom, you can directly edit the lame.exe command line. This allows you to modify the arguments, like -q 0 to enable the highest quality setting, where the default is -q 3. You can also use the -m switch to change the stereo/joint stereo mode. You also get a gain control slider if you'd like to adjust that. One thing I found is you need to leave the existing arguments there, -r and the -s and -b items. I had to remove -x as it was only outputting static. This has something to do with endian and little endian bytes.
[quote author=Leif link=topic=5731.msg20028#msg20028 date=1556264686]
Hi guys!I've been gone a long time — dealing with urgent product development as well as building a house and moving. I've had no idle time to go on facebook for literally 6 months, and the little idle time I had was better spent away from the computer. I'm finally pretty close to being caught up. I do apologize for the troubles you've been having, and appreciate how patient you've been so far!
1) Yes, BaOne will restart automatically when running as a service.
2) Any time BaOne is shut down for any reason, there should be a trace left of some kind.
A shutdown event should be logged in one of several ways. There are many different types of logs.
a. If the service is shut down normally, the entire shutdown procedure is logged in the Startup log.
b. If the service crashes, there should be a crash dump (both a .dmp and .txt file) in the dump\ folder, and an entry in the startup log.
c. If any thread inside BreakawayOne freezes up for an extended period of time, first a warning is issued in dump\BreakawayOneApp_freeze.log.txt, and if it stays frozen for long enough, it repeats the warning and adds “- TERMINATING”, and then terminates the process, so that the service can be restarted. This happened once according to the log files you sent me, while reading streaming metadata, but temporary freezes appear to be happening regularly, in the streaming encoder thread.
That does not make sense to me — according to your settings, metadata is simply being read from a file on your drive. That should not be taking significant time. That is something I need to look into — there could be a bug in my code, or something else could be going on that I’m not yet understanding.
As designed, the only way it should be possible for BreakawayOne to exit without leaving a trace is if the process is forcibly terminated, for example with TASKKILL or with task manager.If Breakaway is crashing at the transmitter site, adding the management package to the studio site would NOT help.
I can add an option to log something every few seconds, but I’m not sure what that would tell us, since it still wouldn’t tell us what happened.
My current framework version is 3.19.77, and I’ve fixed several small bugs in multiple parts of the code since the last time I rebuilt BreakawayOne, and added more detailed logging in some places. Perhaps it’s time I build a new version for you to test, as a first step to tracking down and solving the problem.
Best,
///Leif
[/quote]Hey Leif,
It's been a while! Glad to see you back! I am definitely on board with helping you test a new version. I'd love to get your thoughts on testing VST3 and WASAPI Exclusive mode for audio transport.
Thanks!
IN the config app there's settings for buffer size and such. There is an option to automatically determine the best settings. Run that and it should give you the recommended sizes. I also notice you have your format range settings set to 48000, I would change that to 44100 on both of those items. If you're sending audio outside of breakaway, say, to a sound card or another device, you'll need to have 2 cables enabled. Also, run through all the windows sound settings and make sure sample and bit rates all match up.
The only problem I see is the licensing for BAOne is based on MAC address, so that one computer. You might get away with using a trial version, but you'd run into the audible reminders that this is trial software. Unless you had some other processing software, like StereoTool loaded on the other PC?
