I'm using Radio Feed and occasionally something causes my feed to stop streaming the scanner's audio (Feed stays physically up). Listeners only hear a repeated snippet of the audio in a continuous loop--just like an old vinyl LP record stuck and repeating itself. Of course, I don't get notified of this occurring because the feed never goes down. I'm running the latest version of RadioFeed on a Windows 10 Pro mini-pc from the built-in MIC jack on the PC chassis. I don't get any error messages anywhere or any sign of a problem unless I listen to it via Broadcastify and catch it in the act. Any known bugs with this software or other known issues on the server side? Thanks in advance.
Radio Feed Audio Looping Issue
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I get the same thing, it happens on my Server 2012r2 that does the stream if I RDP in to it and have the RDP client remap the audio from the remote machine (which is the default option).
I avoid it by trying to directly access the system when I am physically there, or remembering to not remap the audio when I connect with the RDP client. I have also thought about using VNC which I don't think remaps audio the same way as the RDP protocol does.
Not sure if this matches your use case.
I avoid it by trying to directly access the system when I am physically there, or remembering to not remap the audio when I connect with the RDP client. I have also thought about using VNC which I don't think remaps audio the same way as the RDP protocol does.
Not sure if this matches your use case.
That's actually a good point. I am RDP'ing into this machine for all access and control...and now that you mention it, I think the problem does start after I disconnect, but have to confirm this. Also, yes, one does need to remember to remap the audio before logging in remotely since that seems to cause the RadioFeed software to use a different source for audio. I'm going to have to experiment with this a bit more and see what happens. If logging into the feeder machine remotely causes this issue, I'd like to address it with the author of ProScan/RadioFeed to see if they can possibly plug in a feature to lock the source audio from changing when RDP'ing.
It’s a bug on the windows side of it all, not proscan. What I do is log in with RDP, do whatever I need to then kill proscan, and restart it all with batch file that has a wait timer in it. I launch it then log out. It waits 30 seconds after I start the batch file then fires up everything.
That's a pretty good idea. I did sent Bob at Proscan a suggestion on seeing if the application can possibly have an option checkbox added to not allow the OS to change the audio source. Not even sure if that's possible, but your solution might be the best for now. Would you mind sharing the code from the batch file?
no problem. I’ll have to do it later from my laptop.
Ok, thx.
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I have experienced the same looping audio condition when remotely connecting to the computer serving the feed. The way I corrected the problem was to configure the client to not re-route the audio. In other words, leave the audio on the remote computer system.
I'm not sure on how the OS can change the audio source. The audio source is hardwired. Did you mean the OS is changing the default input or anything like that? I don't think the OS is changing anything on its own. Other software must be telling the OS to do it. I don't think RadioFeed and ProScan with an option to prevent the OS from changing anything is the solution. Also, it may not be doable, and it may create other problems. I would dig into this to get to the root cause.
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