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[kdsteele]

I'm trying out Panel using MC23.  It plays one song (from playlist or artist) then stops.  Is there a setting to make it play continuously?

[goiko]

Same issue with JRiver 24 plays one song and stops. Any way to solve this please?

[JimH]

Are you using Panel to play?

[wburkett]

I've been experiencing this same problem using Panel: it plays one song and then stops.  Did anyone every figure out the cause, or what to do about it?

May or may not be important: Panel does move to the next song on the record, but stalls: if I hit pause and then play the next song starts up. 

[ZenOli]

Hi,

The subject is a little old but apparently unsolved and I am experiencing the same issue with JRiver 23.
I recently upgraded my network connection which makes Panel usable from remote locations, but when adding files to the playing list, the first song is played and the player (Panel) stops at the start of the second one.

Any ideas on a way to solve this ?

Thanks !
ZenOli

[Awesome Donkey]

You might try MC24, as Panel has improved greatly since MC23's development ended.

[ZenOli]

Thank you for your answer.
To be frank, Panel was one of the main reasons I was reluctant to upgrade to MC24, especially considering I could not get it to work on my slower network connection, while other apps did just fine. I will not elaborate more since this is not the proper place for this, I may try to install trial of MC24 one of these days to see if convincing adjustments have been made. I just wish I could have it to run properly for something as basic as playing two songs in a row.

[JimH]

We see this problem reported from time to time,  but I've never seen it.  I suspect that there is something else happening that isn't being reported.  For example, playing files by browsing in Explorer or in the Files section of MC.  More details might help us to reproduce the problem.

[ZenOli]

I have tried a few more things and it seems to depend on the network connection.

I am playing from a "Recent albums" audio view in both cases.  When using the shared connection from my phone, I can read next songs without any issue.

I am not sure what the difference is, but there might be quite a few, and I do not have configuration access for the faulty one to review.

On both connections, the consoles of the web browsers (Opera / Edge) get a HTTP500 error when loading the main screen of Panel on : (XHR)GET - http://XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:52199/MCWS/v1/Browse/Files?Version=2&Token=EE8qMkio&Action=Serialize

I have not found anything that looked different from one connection to the other.

[JimH]

What is this?

(XHR)GET -

[ZenOli]

I am not sure about the "XHR" but the rest is a GET request from the client to the server that fails because of an internal server error (500). I do not believe this is related to the playback of the next song since the error appears before any song is played

[BradATIMA]

It's requesting a list of media files for a particular category, but it's not providing the category, so it returns a 500 error because there is nothing to return. It does this for the Panel home page. This won't affect playback. It shouldn't cause any problems.

[Rushton]

I'm adding to this old thread because I'm experiencing this same problem with Panel.

I'm using Media Center 25 and attempting to play music via a Chrome browser on my Android phone. Over several months of trying it, I've never gotten it to play reliably. Once a song stops, no amount of refreshing from the phone will change the condition. Panel simply reports there is nothing in the play list but also won't add anything into the playlist.

Does anyone have suggestions for what to explore? Is anyone getting successful music play through panel on their Android phone?

Thanks!

[JimH]

Please provide more details on your setup and the files you're playing.

[Rushton]

Hi Jim, thanks for being willing to help.

I'm not sure what more to tell you, but here goes:

The instance of Media Center 25 to which I am connecting via WiFi is installed on Intel i5 NUC with 16GB RAM, Windows 64
This NUC is connected to external USB hard drives which are shared drives storing my music files
This NUC connects via WiFi to a router on my home network

I have another instance of Media Center 25 housed on a second computer upstairs which connects to this same Intel NUC via WiFi to access those shared external USB hard drives. I have no problem with the WiFi connection to feed files to this second computer and playing directly from Media Center.

The files I'm trying to play are a mix of 16-44, 24-96, 24-192 and DSD64, DSD128, DSD256. But all should be converted to mp3 by JRiver before being streamed to Panel, if I correctly understand the default settings for Panel.

What more would be helpful to know?

Regards,
Rush

[JimH]

Try converting to WAV, not MP3.

Try playing only 16/44 files as a test.  DSD files, for example, would take time to convert.

Has the NUC imported the files from the USB drive?

[Rushton]

Thanks! I'll try play some straight 16-44 wav files without any file conversion and see what happens. This will likely be tomorrow. I'll report back on results.

Yes, the NUC has imported these files into the JRiver Library on the NUC (if this is what you mean), but the files are resident on the USB drive.

[Rushton]

After some experimentation this evening Panel is playing. Still not reliably but enough to warrant further exploration...

First, I changed the Audio Conversion setting to "Don't convert audio". Then I tried a straight 16-44 wav file. Success! Next I tried some higher sampling rate PCM. Success! Then I tried DSD up to DSD256. Success again!

I don't know whether JRiver is doing any conversion somewhere along the line. I presume it must be because I don't know how my Android phone would play a DSD file without JRiver converting it to PCM even though the setting is "Don't convert audio". Thoughts?

Next I tried listening in my workshop (which is where I want to use Panel if I can get it working reliably). WiFi signal seemed normal and Panel played, but then stopped. I reset everything and tried again with similar results. The WiFi signal in the shop works fine for YouTube, but just not keeping Panel playing.

Now I'm at my desk next to the NUC and playing through Panel. No dropouts yet. I'll keep this up for a while and report back. If it continues to play reliably in this location, then I've got to assume that the Panel just can't reliable hold onto the WiFi signal when in the shop and that any glitch in the signal causes Panel to stop playing. Chrome continues to behave just fine through any of this. YouTube play continues just fine. It's just Panel getting lost.

[Rushton]

Update... After 5 hours of playing time, Panel is working reliably for me as long I keep it within range of a strong steady WiFi signal. From what I've observed here, Panel does not seem to be very resilient in the face of a WiFi signal that is not rock steady.

Disabling file conversion may or may not have helped. I haven't further experimented. But, I do have file conversion disabled and all seems to be working as long as I'm close to the WiFi transmitter.

JimH - thanks for offering some suggestions to explore. I appreciate your willingness to jump in on this question!