Net Radio: failed to connect to radio station

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When you get this message while trying to select a Net Radio station:

Open the log file GBPVR.exe.log and look if you something similar to -

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">14-2-2005 22:44:58.760 VERBOSE [2] ShowMouse ref=0
14-2-2005 22:45:02.149 ERROR [73] Error: Access to the path "D:\some directory and path\gbnetradio-0.mp3" is denied.
14-2-2005 22:45:02.149 ERROR [73] at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String str)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean useAsync, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
at aq.g()
14-2-2005 22:45:02.571 VERBOSE [73] Closing shoutcast stream due to bytesRead = 0
14-2-2005 22:45:02.571 ERROR [73] Error closing shoutcast socket: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
14-2-2005 22:45:02.571 ERROR [73] Error processing shoutcast stream: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
14-2-2005 22:45:02.571 ERROR [73] at aq.g()
14-2-2005 22:45:04.289 VERBOSE [2] HideMouse ref=-1
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In that case

1) make sure that you provide sufficient access control (I simply gave 'Everyone' full control ) and

2) make sure that there are no read-only leftovers from previous sessions (I just deleted all the mp3 files there)

Hope this may help somebody with a similar problem.

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Is it a local drive or a network drive?

Are you accessing from PC or MVP?

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Local drive. And accessing locally.

Changing security permissions for the directory (and its descendants) and removing the read-only files made Net radio working again.

The problem is easily reproduced by manually setting the read-only attribute on the buffer mp3 file.

Anyway, all is fine now and I'm very happy with it.

I must confess that I own a payed SnapStream PVS (now Beyond TV) license since version 1. But I'm so happy with the low resource demands of GBPVR that I've switched completely.

Thanks!

[philbury]

getting netradio problem with latest build. Box comes up with

Error: Key cannot be null
Parameter name: key
OK

where would i look for the mp3 files? -

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I seem to remember another user getting this when they added a pls file that did not have a title correctly set in the file?

[philbury]

Right! - I deleted the ones I added - I will try adding the one at a time to see which one screwed up - thanks!