Having a problem getting Mopidy to stream any URL. I put it in the URL on the webclient and nothing happens. If I check the service status, I have these errors.
Sep 12 18:12:01 koro mopidy[9952]: INFO [StreamBackend-5] mopidy.stream.actor Unwrapping stream from URI (http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_6music_mf_p) failed: error downloa
Sep 12 18:12:01 koro mopidy[9952]: WARNING [StreamBackend-5] mopidy.stream.actor Problem looking up [Link redacted]
Sep 12 18:12:18 koro mopidy[9952]: WARNING [StreamBackend-5] mopidy.internal.http Download of ‘[Link redacted]’ failed due to download taking more
Sep 12 18:12:18 koro mopidy[9952]: INFO [StreamBackend-5] mopidy.stream.actor Unwrapping stream from URI ([Link redacted]) failed: error downloa
Sep 12 18:12:18 koro mopidy[9952]: WARNING [Core-6] mopidy.core.tracklist Track is not playable: [Link redacted]
However, I can get it to play if I give it a URL instead. For example, http://178.79.206.141/stream/bbcmedia_6music_mf_p works. I don’t particularly want to have to look up the IP address every time I want to play the radio.
It doesn’t seem to be a network error because I was able to ping the same host from the machine running mopidy. Checked dependencies and only ‘mad’ is missing. I can’t figure out how to install it, but from what I’ve found, it doesn’t sound vital. I haven’t touched the stream configurations (but I’ll paste those below anyway).
Is there anything else I’m missing? Thanks!
[stream]
enabled = true
protocols =
http
https
mms
rtmp
rtmps
rtsp
metadata_blacklist =
timeout = 5000
PS Because I’m a new user, I’ve had to take out the links in the errors, but I left one example in.
An update. For anyone googling a potential solution to this problem, the solution is at the bottom.
Since I posted this, I tried to install the Radionet and Spotify extensions, neither of which worked. The Radionet one just did nothing at all whenever I tried to browse it. Here’s the error:
Sep 14 08:35:50 koro mopidy[616]: ERROR [RadioNetBackend-3] mopidy_radionet.radionet Radio.net: Failed to connect https://radio.net/ retrying on next browse.
The Spotify one would announce me as connected in the log, display my playlists, but then couldn’t play any tracks. This is the error I would get:
Sep 14 14:48:08 koro mopidy[616]: INFO [SpotifyBackend-7] mopidy_spotify.lookup Failed to lookup 'spotify:track:27N1UZEtss6egt6yWKSUK3': Session must be logged in and online to load obj
I began to think that this might be a wider problem than Mopidy. This is on a recently installed RaspberryPi 4. I had set it up almost identically to its predecessor and it’s connected both by ethernet and wifi, on a stable internet connection, so I had originally dismissed any possibility of there being a problem. I tried opening a browser directly on the machine and noticed that it took a very long time to resolve a host for any webpage. One difference to my previous set up was that I set a static ip in /etc/dhcpcd.conf instead of /etc/network/interfaces.
Here’s what has seemed to fix it (Spotify can play tracks, can stream URLs quite quickly):
In /etc/dhcpcd.conf, I commented the line static domain_name_servers=192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8 fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::1, which previously I had uncommented. Here is my set up for that section of the dhcpcd.conf file:
# Example static IP configuration:
interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.0.207/24
#static ip6_address=fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::ff/64
static routers=192.168.0.1
#static domain_name_servers=192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8 fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::1
The only thing it hasn’t fixed is Radionet. But I think that might be because the config asks for a username and password, which the website doesn’t have. I gather this is a recent change.