2014-09-29, 00:45
Ok,
I'm going to have one more attempt at troubleshooting a most infuriating issue I've been seeing in Gotham for a long time now including 13.2.
When I use the Amber skin airplay audio does not work properly. More specifically the screen just flashes when I attempt to play a track or switch tracks but no audio comes out and the visualisation (if enabled) does not start.
I don't seem to have the same issue in Confluence, which makes it seem like its a Skin or Addon issue (since different skins use different helper addons) except for the following two points:
1) Audio playback from the local music library is not affected. (Why would only airplay music be affected ? How does it differ ?)
2) If I turn on debugging it will NOT fault. Yes you read right, I cannot debug this issue or provide a debug log because turning on debugging fixes the problem!!! (how is it even possible that enabling debugging can fix the problem?)
So I'm stumped, and don't know where to start looking...
Is it an airplay bug ? Is it a bug in Amber ? (But how would a skin bug prevent airplay audio working, and why only when debugging is turned off ?) Is it a bug in one of the addons Amber uses ? Is it a bug in the XBMC core ? I honestly have no idea and have no idea how to narrow down the blame since it seems to occur with a confluence of circumstances.. (no pun intended )
I'm pretty sure that at least one other skin has the same issue, although I can't recall what the other skin was. Pretty sure that Amber is not the only culprit though, even though Confluence seems to be ok.
Where do I begin with this one ? It's rather frustrating as Amber is my skin of choice and unfortunately it is preventing me from using airplay audio...
I'm going to have one more attempt at troubleshooting a most infuriating issue I've been seeing in Gotham for a long time now including 13.2.
When I use the Amber skin airplay audio does not work properly. More specifically the screen just flashes when I attempt to play a track or switch tracks but no audio comes out and the visualisation (if enabled) does not start.
I don't seem to have the same issue in Confluence, which makes it seem like its a Skin or Addon issue (since different skins use different helper addons) except for the following two points:
1) Audio playback from the local music library is not affected. (Why would only airplay music be affected ? How does it differ ?)
2) If I turn on debugging it will NOT fault. Yes you read right, I cannot debug this issue or provide a debug log because turning on debugging fixes the problem!!! (how is it even possible that enabling debugging can fix the problem?)
So I'm stumped, and don't know where to start looking...
Is it an airplay bug ? Is it a bug in Amber ? (But how would a skin bug prevent airplay audio working, and why only when debugging is turned off ?) Is it a bug in one of the addons Amber uses ? Is it a bug in the XBMC core ? I honestly have no idea and have no idea how to narrow down the blame since it seems to occur with a confluence of circumstances.. (no pun intended )
I'm pretty sure that at least one other skin has the same issue, although I can't recall what the other skin was. Pretty sure that Amber is not the only culprit though, even though Confluence seems to be ok.
Where do I begin with this one ? It's rather frustrating as Amber is my skin of choice and unfortunately it is preventing me from using airplay audio...