Pianobar keeps playing 32bit audio.

[calebdw]

Pianobar keeps playing 32bit audio even when I have "audio_quality = medium" set in the config file. Sometimes, when I start playing pianobar in the morning it will play 64bit for a few songs but then it switches to 32bit and subsequent restarts won't switch it back to 64bit.

[PromyLOPh]

I assume you mean “kbit”, not “bit”? How do you determine the song’s
bitrate (pianobar does not display it)?

Pianobar keeps playing 32bit audio even when I have "audio_quality =
medium" set in the config file.
“medium” and “low” have always been 32 kbit as far as I can remember.
Only “high” offers 64 kbit audio.

[calebdw]

Then why do you have both "medium" and "low" if they're the same thing?
I though "high" was only for pandora one.

I got curious when my network moniter on my toolbar wasn't showing the normal amount of activity when pianobar was running, so I used urlsnarf to view the url that pianobar was playing, then I used wget to download enough of the song that totem could determine the bitrate.(Then I deleted the file, of course) Perhaps you could have pianobar display the bitrate(or even just the quality selected)?

[calebdw]

Changed "medium" to "high" in the config file and it started off playing 64kb audio, but then it switched back to playing 32kb audio -- it's a subtle difference, but I can hear it, so I confirmed it using the above method.

[PromyLOPh]

Then why do you have both "medium" and "low" if they're the same thing?
I don’t know whether there’s a difference between low and medium. That’s
just what Pandora’s API offers.

I though "high" was only for pandora one.
It was, but that changed long ago.

Changed "medium" to "high" in the config file and it started off
playing 64kb audio, but then it switched back to playing 32kb audio --
it's a subtle difference, but I can hear it, so I confirmed it using
the above method.
Hm, you’re using the master branch currently?

[calebdw]

Yes. restarting has no affect. Changing the config to medium, starting pianobar, changing config back to high and restarting pianobar has no affect.

[PromyLOPh]

Well, that sounds like one of those server-side limitations Pandora
imposes on “bad” users.

[calebdw]

That sucks..:/

Anyway to not be a "bad" user?

I wonder if quiting pianobar and logging in a little while later would have any affect on this...

[PromyLOPh]

Anyway to not be a "bad" user?
There’s a lengthy discussion at #415, but TL;DR is: We don’t know for
sure.