Solved Cant play audiobooks

[privsec]

I feel dumb, but dont know what else to do. Here is what I have done thus far.

I have added a catalog of audiobooks to the right directory as it is being read by ampache.

However, when I try to play a file it will not play in the browser. It downloads an M3U file to my machine

I get these logs for ampache
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Then when I click ok to open this file in VLC, I get this error

These logs also show up in the terminal
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What I find interesting is this line [Wed Mar 03 20:42:48.921027 2021] [php7:error] [pid 103] [client x.x.x.x:xxxxx] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 65011744 bytes) in /app/code/play/index.php on line 782

My desire is to be able to play everything on the server via the browser. Eventually Ill test mobile apps, so I dont even know why it is downloading a M3U file.

This is my server settings
Options

Streaming settings

Playlist

[privsec]

So I actually found out that that I was in Stream via the dropdown, the errors are still a problem though.

However, as of now I have the dropdown on webplayer

I now get these options
Which is what I expect, however, I still cannot play files.

When I click the play button, I Get these logs

[privsec]

I have my ram set to 64 gigs
so I am now at a loss

[girish]

@privsec maybe you can try adjusting php's memory limit which is 128MB by default. You can edit the php.ini using the file manager:

memory_limit = 512M

[privsec]

@girish said in Cant play audiobooks:

@privsec maybe you can try adjusting php's memory limit which is 128MB by default. You can edit the php.ini using the file manager:

memory_limit = 512M

I'm not very adept at PHP. Is there a pro/con to having higher memory? If not, what would happen if I set it to 1000M?

[girish]

@privsec Usually, a single PHP script shouldn't require so much memory (like 1GB). But it really depends on the app ultimately how much memory it uses. https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/FAQ#im-getting-errors-about-memory-limits-being-reached--out-of-memory seems suggest we have to try to bump it up if it gives some memory errors.

[privsec]

@girish Wow, nice find. I couldnt find that page.

Ok, ill try that

[privsec]

@girish said in Cant play audiobooks:

memory_limit = 512M

It appears there is no set limit

[jdaviescoates]

@privsec that's just where you overwrite defaults which are elsewhere. Put the memory limit in there and it'll increase it.

[privsec]

Ok, I added the line

I restarted the app

It still giving me that error

[nebulon]

@privsec as answered in the support ticket, for others.

Ampache overwrites the memory_limit value set in php.ini so in order to increase the limit, it has to be set in /app/data/config/ampache.cfg.php

In this particular case the mp3 file being an audio book was rather large, above 100Mb so ampache works once the value is set to memory_limit = 512M

Also given that it is a php app, an app restart is not required, just reload the page in the browser.

[privsec]

@nebulon Once this was set, it solved the issue.

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