Mistakingly trying to play locally...

[forbesmyester]

Squeezelite tried to play locally, for a Docker hosted server with mounted /music directory (thus could not open the file)

[19:15:11.525726] stream_file:528 opening local file: /music/music_unchecked/__________.mp3
[19:15:11.525772] stream_file:538 can't open file: /music/music_unchecked/__________.mp3
[19:15:11.547400] decode_thread:100 decode complete

Docker config (Ansible):

- name: Container
  community.docker.docker_container:
    name: cnt-logitechmediaserver
    image: "lmscommunity/logitechmediaserver:8.3.1"
    cpus: 0.75
    networks_cli_compatible: yes
    labels:
      com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable: "true"
    env:
      HTTP_PORT: '{{ logitechmediaserver.http_port }}'
    volumes:
      - "{{ logitechmediaserver.system_mounts.config }}/config:/config:rw"
      - "{{ logitechmediaserver.system_mounts.playlist }}/music:/playlist:rw"
      - "{{ logitechmediaserver.music_mounts.music }}:/music/music:ro"
      - "{{ logitechmediaserver.music_mounts.music_listened }}:/music/music_listened:ro"
      - "{{ logitechmediaserver.music_mounts.music_unchecked }}:/music/music_unchecked:ro"
      - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
      - "/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro"
    published_ports:
      - "{{ logitechmediaserver.http_port }}:{{ logitechmediaserver.http_port }}/tcp"
      - "9090:9090/tcp"
      - "3483:3483/tcp"
      - "3483:3483/udp"
    state: started
    healthcheck:
      interval: 30s
      retries: 1
      start_period: 300s
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "--fail", "http://localhost:9000/"]
      timeout: 30s
    restart_policy: unless-stopped
  tags: [docker_logitechmediaserver]

[forbesmyester]

Is there a way to skip this if?

squeezelite/slimproto.c

Line 368 in 71832fb

if (ip == LOCAL_PLAYER_IP && port == LOCAL_PLAYER_PORT) {

[ralph-irving]

Do you have the localplayer plugin installed in LMS? It's needed to support reading the files directly.

To skip that line you could use IP address of the ethernet adapter in the squeezelite settings instead of the lo interface.

[forbesmyester]

Hi Ralph,

Thanks for your response.

I did have localplayer installed, but given that LMS was running in a docker container (I don't think) it had access to the soundcard / pulseaudio etc.

I tried using the -s flag but it didn't seem to have any effect and the stream_file:538 can't open errors still occurred (which is not what I was expecting).

I wonder if having had localplayer installed (during, but then previously) caused the issue?

[jpmenil]

@forbesmyester when running squeezelite inside a docker container,
you'll need:
chmod -R a+rw /dev/snd/
or start your container, mapping your local audio group:

-u nobody:$(getent group audio | awk -F: '{print $3}')

https://github.com/jpmenil/squeezelite/blob/master/README.md?plain=1#L10-L14

[forbesmyester]

@jpmenil good tip, and worth knowing, but as /dev is a virtual filesystem there'd (likely) be work to make those changes persist etc... Was really just trying to pull the music over the overlay / virtual network, which seems like an easier option.