Plexamp - “Couldn’t start playback” - RPi4 I love Plexamp and have decided that since I can’t find a streamer that does Plexamp well, it is time to make one. I’m trying to make an RPi4 Plexamp streamer. I don’t have a HAT, I’m strictly going from the RPi4 to a Peachtree PreDAC over USB-A on the R…

Thanks @elan and @tgp-2 Some fresh eyes this morning, so I started from scratch on a new SD card and I can report everything seems to be working, both in user space and as a system service. I’ll probably run as the system service for convenience. I don’t know what strange configuration I ended u…

The Playback Logs from the RPi4 were attached, there’s not much in them. Headless logs My iOS connection is over the web browser to the headless. The Advanced tab on the web client doesn’t have any debugging options that I can find, which is why I tried to capture the server log. Here’s the iOS …

The headless logs from starting Plexamp. I used Chromium locally to start plexamp web ui. Clicked on a song, no playback. playback.headless.chromium.txt (26.9 KB)

in the playback settings for headless, if you select the peachtree as the audio output (instead of default), do you get the same error?

Good eye @tgp-2 I didn’t write this down before. When I configure the headless plexamp output, I can choose Peachtree or Default, neither seems to affect the “Couldn’t start playback”

[image] modkiefer: The Playback Logs from the RPi4 were attached, there’s not much in them. I don’t even see any communication from clients, so that implies it’s not an actual playback issue, right? playback.headless.chromium doesn’t show anything either. I see iOS issuing a play: Jul 07, …

I’d be happy to say I am following along, but I’m not. I have had enjoyed plexamp for a while. The only thing new is that I’m trying to run it from the RPi4 and this is the only device that can’t seem to interact with my server running Plexamp. My MacOS Plexamp clients are fine, but are not turne…

I’m going to start from scratch on a second SD card and see if I botched something along the way.

[image] modkiefer: When I posted this, I looked at the RPi4 log and it had 412 lines in it. I clicked on something to play, and my log went to 416 lines. The four lines had no communication about trying to play anything, only showing some graphical assets. That implies that Plexamp on iOS was…

pulseaudio doesn’t necessarily get along with apps run as a system service … just for troubleshooting, you could switch over to booting headless / terminal-only, select the peachtree in the web ui, and then see if playback works … or while still running a desktop environment, you can stop the system…

Plexamp - “Couldn’t start playback” - RPi4

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elan July 7, 2023, 10:10pm 2

You’ve posted server logs. Please post Plexamp logs from iOS after the playback fails, as well as logs from the RPi4 (~/.cache/Plexamp/log/Plexamp.log)

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