To ensure stability, I would prefer to use a stable version from Debian (1.9.9-1414) or the recent version 2.0.0-1488 which provides a fix for certain web radios in Flac and their metadata in OggFlac format.
Yes right, It would also be necessary to change the priority of this package 1.9.9-1414 to more than 500 to avoid that in case of update the 2.0.0-1468 is reinstalled
For the moment I’m staying in version 2.0.0-1468 to see if the problem reoccurs or not. I’ll let you know if I have any problems again.
i also have to restart squeezelite frequently because it stops working with no reason
i tried the version 1.9.9-1414 but it doesn’t start.
so we are stuck with 2.0.0-1468 unless we have an update
A few days ago I enabled the testing repository on my RPi5 and then tried to install squeezelite 2.0.0-1488+git20240509.0e85ddf-1
apt update && apt install -t unstable squeezelite
Hit:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:4 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Hit:5 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
Hit:6 https://dietpi.com/apt bookworm InRelease
Hit:7 https://archive.raspberrypi.com/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:8 https://dietpi.com/apt all InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
471 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
squeezelite : Depends: libavcodec60 (>= 7:6.0)
Depends: libavformat60 (>= 7:6.0)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
After discussing with the package maintainer he advised me to go directly to download it from :
no you can download the squeezelite bin from sourceforge, it doesn’t need dependencies
all is already inside (look at the size, it is bigger)
just copy it in /bin
the package from the repo are lighter but need dedendencies
So to me it seems that also Debian is just pulling latest sources every now and then, and it is hence coincidence which version makes it into Debian stable, unless one causes immediate obvious issues, of course.
If anyone faces issues with software from our APT repo (which have the -dietpiX version suffix), please ping me, or open an issue at GitHub, so I can check and trigger updates ASAP.
That is basically true for all Debian package maintainers, or >90% at least . No problem with that, I was just wondering whether, or basically doubt that he knows about/pulls “stable” versions, but just pulls the latest master branch when someone asks, or at some point before Debian testing enters freezing stages.
The latest stable version is always the one at the top of this page :
The squeezelite metapackage 2.0.0.1488 proposed on this page is supposed to contain a fix independent of squeezelite for OGG-FLAC web radios whose metadata crashes squeezelite. The patch has been sent to the Flac maintainer who still has to integrate it which will take some time… In the meantime ralph-irving has merged this FLAC fix to the latest squeezelite metapackages he proposes for this page.
So I need to contact him to ask him to kindly create a meta-package squeezelite-2.0.0.1488-aarch64.tar.gz
Hmm, okay, hard to scrape the version string form there, and then another problem is that one cannot really select a version from the GitHub repository, since there are no tags. So it would be required to find the commit which matches the version and then download the source code for the commit. Not really practicable. I did now subscribe to this SourceForge page to get informed about updates. If they do not happen to often, I can trigger a Squeezelite update manually when SourceForge informs me about an update. Should work, if Ralph does not do another commit shortly after SourceForge releases.
The fix is contained in our build as well then, so no need to manually download binaries.
This is a patch for flac that is supposed to be in the squeezelite-2.0.0.1488 metapackage on source forge.
But he didn’t release an ARM64 (aarch64) version. So I asked him to do it.
After the DietPi update you just did, squeezelite should be more stable, thank you, but sadly the FLAC-OGG radio station bug is still there unfortunately.
