XSPF playlist feed breaking

Changing the title to more accurately describe the issue...please try and be descriptive in the title.

Hendryman, I closed the other thread because it is confusing to have multiple issues open on the same topic.

Also, please don't post .zip files in the future, as it obfuscates the files inside and presents a potential security vulnerability (viruses, although I don't suspect that you would do that, it's just Drupal.org practice). The links you provided to your site is preferred anyway, since we can see how your site is working.

I just applied a patch to fix a typo that was preventing PLS feeds from working. Your M3U link works fine for me. Your XSPF playlist is breaking for an unknown reason that I can't reproduce. Try to see if you can reproduce it with different files to see if a pattern emerges in terms of where/when it breaks. If anybody else encounters a similar problem post here.

Can't seem to access the site with the links you gave. Could you send me a test account to try? You can email if it is private.

Servus.

As the other thread was closed as being fixed I'm happy there's this thread as I suffer the same oddities as hendryman...

I setup everything as had been said a dozen times but the playlist only shows one entry per playlist, but several playlists. Klicking "XSPF" gives an error screen with a very weird path showing...

That's the page which should show that playlist:
http://www.basitours.com/samplelist

And here's a view of all the music on that site using the 1 pixel player:
http://www.basitours.com/samples/list

The .../samplelist was created as a page view of type XSPF, the samples/list is a regular view where I used the 1 px player for the audio player.

Hope this helps some to get this nasty bug cleared out soon.

Norbert

I just posted an update to another issue about the playlist feed. I got it partially working. Read what I found out here: http://drupal.org/node/210772#comment-714650

Servus - any news on anything regarding that bug? It's hard to bear that silence...

Norbert

Norbert,

As reported here, (http://drupal.org/node/210772) I have had some success with this by uploading files via ftp and then importing using the audio_import module. This is obviously more of a workaround than a fix, and so far I haven't had any reply on why this method works and others don't. Give it a try and see if you get similar results...

Anthony

Servus, Anthony.

Thanks for reminding me -- I haven't tried that yet but it's definitely on my list. However, in this case I can't have my client to work with that workaround. Song files change a lot there and if he had to bulk import every time he wants/needs to change a song he'd get crazy. Well, that audio-affair made him already somewhat upset... If everybody fails I'll put single file players on that site, period. It's a pity there's no solution for that problem, and not being a programmer makes it tougher to deal with the situation. Thanks again,

Norbert

Norbert,

I understand your situation. This should definitely be fixed. Since this is my own site, I'm willing to jump through some hoops to get it to work, but still, there is a problem that hopefully will be addressed soon. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but perhaps it would be worth investigating the views bonus (http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus) + http://jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player option.

Changing status to critical since this issue has been open for a month with no real headway.

I still can't reproduce this, BUT I have a hunch it is something to do with invalid characters choking the feed up. I'm still confused as to why or where these NUL characters are coming from, but as a temporary fix (hopefully someone else can dig deeper for the reason) I applied this patch to 5.x-2.x-dev, which removes any NUL characters from the xspf feed.

Please re-download 5.x-2.x-dev or apply this patch to feeds.inc and follow up the issue here.

Servus, Zirafa!

Yes - this patch did it. Perfect, thanks.

zirafa: I am using 5.7 and trying to get my xspf playlist working, and keep coming across your posts which seem to have fixes for others. I believe that my tracks are not showing up in my tracklist due to bad characters breaking the feeds. My recommended content feeds break, there for it only makes sense to think that the xspf feeds would as well. I tried your patch, with no luck, patch does not take due to more than one version of feeds.inc and I am not sure how to choose the correct version.

Help is needed. . .

I just committed #186801: iTunes ripped MP3s have question marks at end of words?? which should remove some of the NULLs. Is this still necessary?

since there wasn't any feed back i'm going to assume it's working now.

drewish, no, it is not working, and I have tried making an xspf of a genre, and it will not produce a playlist, yet it will produce the files according to genre with their info and default single player.

I am learning that it requires the file to be imported somehow other than the mass audio import to work with this playlist.

I need to do some more testing on my end to consider this still broken, so fixed for now is fine.
Note: I can not get a playlist to generate with audio imported with a mass import.