[Pianod] Music doesn't start when launched at startup

[Peter Li]

Hi Gonewest, just want to clarify; this issue comes up because you are 
trying to have pianod start at bootup on your RasPi, AND you have in 
your pianod startscript that it should start playing a station 
immediately upon launching, right?


On 05/06/2013 10:00 PM, pi.gonewest at xoxy.net wrote:
>
> Chinasaur and I have been discussing this same issue on the Raspberry 
> Pi forums. 
> (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=37494&p=344130#p344130)
>
> In my case if I setup pianod to play immediately upon launching it 
> fails, but if I immediately restart the service without changing 
> anything else playback works fine.  My thought is the daemon is trying 
> to play before the audio driver is completely ready.
>
> So I'm going to try two things:
>
> (1) remove the "play" command from my startscript.  Looks to me like 
> pianod doesn't try opening a playback channel until it needs to play a 
> song, so if I boot with pianod in an idle state then I can choose how 
> long to wait before selecting a station.
>
> (2) change the player logic. BarPlayerOpenAudioOut(). The function calls
>
> if (audioOutDriver < 0) {
>     audioOutDriver = ao_default_driver_id();
> }
>
> but according to the libao documentation, ao_default_driver_id() can 
> return -1 if there is no usable audio output device. There's some 
> logic that assumes it's possible to fall back to a "default" device 
> but in my case I'm already using the default.  I want to see if 
> there's some way to detect this case and fail more gracefully, e.g. 
> pause and retry or something along those lines.
>
>
>
>
>
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