Radio PRO - MP3 and OGG-streaming solution

Hi

Please open a new, empty scene and delete the folder "Assets/Plugins/crosstales".
Then re-import the asset.

Does that help?


Cheers
Stefan

 

Never mind, rebuilding the library fixed the problem

 

Does the radio pro handle DTS Sound streaming or other surround sound codecs ?

 

Hi

Radio supports MP3 and OGG as streaming sources.
MP3 has afaik only support for 2 channels, but I'm unsure about the capabilities for OGG.

However, Radio is clearly intended for mono or stereo sources and was never tested with multichannel sources.


Cheers
Stefan

 

Hi Stefan,
I've gotten a lot of errors exactly after i imported this assets:

How can i make these errors disappear?

Keith

 

Hi Keith

Have you updated the version or was it a fresh install?
Please make sure you delete the whole "crosstales"-folder under "Assets/Plugins" and re-install the asset.

Does that solve the issue?


So long,
Stefan

 

Yeah It was a fresh install but it's solved now, it worked!
Thanks!

 

What was the problem?

 

The problem was that i had a bunch of errors right after i imported this asset and i didn't know how to fix those errors (as shown in the picture above). Deleting the whole crosstale folder and re-installing it like you suggested made those errors disappear.

 

interesting

 

Hi @Stefan-Laubenberger , I purchased this asset and am getting major issues under a fresh URP project in 2021.1.7.

Namely, many of the 3rd party demos having missing scripts, as well as the 04-3D Audio scene. I suggest you verify them (3/4 of them had major or fatal errors) -- I suspect asset UUIDs got changed?

 

Hi Drew

That should not be the case - is the "UI.unitypackage" from "Plugins\crosstales\Common\Extras" extracted? If not, please import it manually.

About the "04-3D"-scene: you have to install the character-controllers from "Standard Assets" (an asset from Unity).

Does that help?


So long,
Stefan

 

RadioOnlineLuisteren.nl is a website that provides a lot of the most popular online radio stations of 2021. FM radio is suitable for all your devices, experience it now.

 

Thanks for the overview!

It would be helpful if your site would provide the streaming URL for every station - this way they could be used in our Radio.

 

Hello

can use for video games like gta for simulate radio in the vehicules?

there isn't legal issues?

 

Hi

Yes, it's like the radio stations in GTA, just better because it's the "real thing"

About the legals, please see one of my previous posts:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/radio-pro-mp3-and-ogg-streaming-solution.334604/page-6#post-6636085


Cheers
Stefan

 

Hi, I am trying to integrate for a game a test as an online radio streaming from https://radiolize.com/.
He is using it on the website so it is working fine, but when I try to use it with the Radioplyer I get this weird error
"No more data to read after 0:00! Please restart this station or choose another one"
or
"Only MP3 with layer 3 specs is supported!"
or
"Only MP3 with layer 3 specs is supported! MPEG-1 (Audio Layer III) allows the following sample rates: 32kHz, 44.1kHz and 48kHz!
"

There are any specific links that work? Is there a certain encoding option?
I have tried some other stations and they work.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

Hi

I can't say for sure, but it looks like the streams are non-standard MP3 encoded.
Can you please send me an example stream-url?


Cheers
Stefan

 

Is there a way I can test it? A validator? This could be an interesting tool

Here is the naughty radio link : https://s51.radiolize.com/radio/8150/radio.mp3

Thank you

 

Hello again

The issue is that the stream is AAC encoded:


Radio "only" plays MP3 and OGG-streams.


Cheers
Stefan

 

Hi Stefan,

I have this situation with an Ogg radio at this stream:
https://s51.radiolize.com/radio/8150/radio.ogg

What might be wrong?

 

Hi

Have you set the "Format" under "Stream Settings" to OGG (on the RadioPlayer gameobject)?
I did a test with your station and it worked.


Cheers
Stefan

 

Hi there, just wondering if there is anyway to validate a radio URL without playing it? My use case is as follows: User A inputs a radio station URL for other users in the game to listen to. Before I let them upload this URL I want to check that it is valid.

 

Hi Adrian

You could use our string extension methods "CTisWebsite" and "CTisIPv4" to verify if the string is a valid url.
BUT this won't tell you if it's an actual radio station, something like "unity.com" would pass the test of those methods...
To be sure, you have to play the entered station (e.g. muted for a few seconds) and if it doesn't fail, you will know it's an actual radio station.

I hope this helps you further.


Cheers
Stefan

 

I'm having a weird issue after upgrading my project to Unity 2020.3.22f1 (latest LTS release)
when I start a radio station, the audio plays, but it plays the first 1 or two seconds on repeat?!

It's giving me an audio seizure!

 

Hi Adrian

I just did an extensive test with Unity 2020.3.19 and Radio 2021.2.4 and can't confirm the issue on my side.
Can you please send me the Radio station which causes the described behaviour in your case?


Regards
Stefan

 

Thanks Stefan,

It was happening with all radio stations that I tried. However, restarting Unity seemed to fix the issue! Probably should have tried that first!

 

No problem, I'm happy it works now for you!
If you like our asset/support, please consider leaving a review in the store.

 

Hello, have you plans support ACC format in future? Thanks.

 

Hi!

We would like to support AAC, but afaik there is no C# codec available (since the codec supports DRM and is a proprietary solution).

Maybe it would work under Windows and with some native libraries also for Android, but the effort is quite substantial.
MP3/OGG is still widely support by tens of thousands of radio stations, so support for AAC is not something we have planned in the near future.


Cheers
Stefan

 

Demo app plays station fine in the editor but when I build for android I can't get any stations to play at all.

The error in logcat looks like this...

RadioStation {Name='Audioasyl', Url='http://stream.audioasyl.net:8000/audioasyl', Station='http://audioasyl.net', Genres='various, techno, house, dance, dubstep, minimal, funk, spokenword, hip-hop', Rating='4', Description='Audiasyl streams live and archived sets from and around Zürich. Check out the archived sets on the website.', IconUrl='https://static.radio.net/images/broadcasts/be/6a/9956/c175.png', City='Zürich', Country='CH', Language='English', AudioFormat='MP3', Bitrate='320', ChunkSize='32', BufferSize='48', ExcludedCodec='None', UpdateDataAtPlay='True', Channels='2', SampleRate='44100', TotalDataSize='0', TotalDataRequests='0', TotalPlayTime='0'}
12-27 06:43:26.794 23694 30786 E Unity : Could not read url after 0:00!
12-27 06:43:26.794 23694 30786 E Unity : System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
12-27 06:43:26.794 23694 30786 E Unity : at System.Net.WebRequestPrefixElement..ctor (System.String P, System.Type creatorType) [0x00018] in <6d066b05df624e3299ce5c89aeae679f>:0
12-27 06:43:26.794 23694 30786 E Unity : at System.Net.WebRequest.PopulatePrefixList () [0x00040] in <6d066b05df624e3299ce5c89aeae679f>:0

I made no changes at all to any of the demo scenes. I added them to the build for android and made sure Internet is required. I've had no problem with any other internet related services in my android apps.

Not sure where to go from here. It looks like the icon pic comes through ok.

The demo app build you provided before I purchased worked fine. What could I be doing wrong as to why the same demo won't work when built on my end. And it does play the stations fine in the editor in play mode.

 

Hi

I think you should add the permission android:usesCleartextTraffic="true" to your AndroidManifest.xml.
If that's not an option, please send us your invoice via email and we will give you access to an updated version which will allow to exclude non-HTTPS streams:

 

Greetings!

Many thanks for the quick reply. I think my problem was I had the build set to mono vs il2pp. Or at least it seemed when I flipped that and rebuilt it played some of the stations. I think perhaps now the struggle is https vs http.

Thanks for the help.

 

Greetings,

So one thing I'm wanting to do in my game is have the radio get 'unlocked' fairly early in the game with perhaps a half dozen stations. Then as they progress through the game I'm wanting to unlock more stations.

I'm sure I could brute force a variety of ways... I was just curious if anyone here could recommend an approach.

My first instinct is to keep it simple programmatically and just break the full song list into perhaps 15 different lists with each one with more stations and then just swap the list out and have radiopro reload the new list.

It also looked like it might be possible to use multiple providers and then take an additive approach where each list just adds more songs. This I like because it would be possible to introduce new stations out of order.

I'm sure by the time this read I'll probably have some sort of solution... was just hoping maybe somebody could recommend an approach for this.

 

Why not simply select the items from the list, e.g. level 1 => index 0 - 14, level 2 => index 0 - 29 and so on?
Or you could use the "Limit" in the Filter-section and increment it every level:

 

Perfect! That is exactly the solution I was looking for!

 

Very nice update - just one note, great, that you have pointed it out in README:
"If you plan on including stations in a game that you release on a commercial basis,
we strongly recommend that you contact the stations you want to use yourself."
How on earth, one could contact 2000 radio stations to ask for permission?

 

You don't have to contact all stations, just make it possible that your users can see the details about the station, like a link to the website of the radio.

 

Thanks, for the answer. I have thought, that it should be the easier way to do that.

 

I just started a project that has Radio Pro and DJ Pro. I've been looking around, but I can't remember how I can assign one and the other to different AudioSources so that they end up on different tracks in the mixer...could you please remind me how to assign Radio and DJ to specific tracks? (Both are inside the same gameobject)

 

Hi

Sorry, but I'm not exactly sure what you mean. DJ has the "Turntable" and Radio the "RadioPlayer" prefabs, which both have an AudioSource. So I would assume, you could add both objects to the mixer, or isn't it working?


Happy easter!
Stefan

 

No, everything is fine...it's just that I don't use the Prefab but directly the scripts in an object 'AudioManager' which contains the 2 scripts 'RadioPlayer' and 'Turnable', as well as AudioSources...and I expected in your scripts to find a property to map the AudioSource of my choice...thanks for your help though!

 

Turnable and RadioPlayer need their own GameObject and AudioSource, otherwise they can't work.
I hope this helps you further.

 

Is there any way to stream from a url that also contains video?
For example, if there was a DJ who is streaming their set via OBS, can we stream the audio into unity?

 

Hi

Unfortunately, only MP3 and OGG audio streams are supported.


Cheers
Stefan

 

I'm struggling with the dreaded "No more data to read after 0:00!" error. The stream I am attempting to play (https://ice1.somafm.com/u80s-128-mp3) appears to be an MP3 stream, which matches my Stream Settings (Format=MP3, Bitrate=128, Chunk Size=32, Buffer Size=48). It plays fine in my web browser. Why won't it play in Unity?

(I just downloaded Radio Pro today, so apologies if I'm missing something simple.)

 

Hi Joe

You have to use the one that works: https://ice1.somafm.com/u80s-256-mp3
No seriously, our decoder is sometimes picky and it can't play non-standard MP3/OGG streams or with unstable connections (at least until the buffer is full). You could try to get better results by increasing the "Buffer Size" to 64 or 80 and/or lower the "Chunk Size" to 16 or even 8.
The next update of Radio will hopefully minimize this issue.


Cheers
Stefan

 

OK, thank you.

One more question. I'm using RadioPlayer directly with my own stream management. When the user hits "next station" I set the station URL and restart the player. I would then like to display the station title as soon as possible, ideally while buffering audio data, so the user can see right away what kind of music is coming. But in the OnBufferingStart callback, the station info is all that of the old station, not the new one we are currently loading.

Is there any way I can find out what station we're now buffering before RecordChange happens?

 

Unfortunately, Radio has to read some data before it can tell you the name of the station.
The next update will also improve this behaviour by skipping the pre-buffering (=faster response time) - you can send us your invoice via email to get the latest beta version.
Meanwhile, you could set the name of the station by yourself (if you already know it).

 

Greetings, I have problems running my app in the background on android. when the screen is locked the transmission lasts 30 seconds and starts to fail until it stops. I installed the Run in Bck Android package, I did tests changing the bitrate, chunk and buffer (I took it to 96) I commented the pause lines in Unity Player Activity and CTI Player activity, I put the scene elements in the Background Manager. I still have the problem. Using Unity 2020.3. and Samsung Galaxy S8. I really need help with this because I can't develop a radio player that doesn't run in sleep state. From already thank you very much for your time.