Community Squeeze Release Community Squeeze is a community driven activity to continue the squeezebox open ecosystem and maintain availability of squeezebox compatible players now that Slimdevices/Logitech are no longer active in this market. It targets great audio quality at low cost with full integration to the existing Logitech Media Server based ecosystem.
The project comprises both software and hardware components. The Community Squeeze OS is a Linux based software distribution which includes playback and control applications which enable a squeezebox compatible player to be run on supported hardware. The Community Squeeze Player is a community designed hardware device which will run Community Squeeze OS and will provide a high quality audio playback capability from on-board analog and digital outputs. Today we are releasing the initial version of the Community Squeeze OS. This is designed to run on a low power hardware device called Wandboard (wandboard.org). This is being made available so early users of Community Squeeze are able to trial the software and work with us to improve its capabilities. This initial release will support playback via the on-board audio output of the Wandboard and via external optical spdif and usb based dacs. The OS will evolve to power the Community Squeeze hardware Player. We will confirm more details of the hardware platform as development continues. Release 1.0 of the Community Squeeze OS supports the following features: - Fedora based linux OS for the Wandboard cpu platform which is available as a download to be flashed to microSD card by the user - Squeezelite playback application which supports wav, aiff, flac, mp3, ogg, aac using linux codecs and which will playback through the on board audio, spdif and usb ports of the Wandboard. Squeezelite uses existing Squeezebox protocols to integrate with your LMS based music system. - (Optional) HDMI based user interface for the player which uses the JiveLite application to control the player via a USB connected keyboard or remote using a Flirc adaptor (requires 1080p capable TV/monitor) - (Optional) Support for the LMS server application running on the Wandboard hardware to avoid requirement for an external server - Web based configuration for each of the above functions Download and installation instructions for the OS are provided below. Please download the OS and let us have your feedback. We would love for additional developers to join the team and help develop the software side of this activity and help support us as we develop the hardware player. Thank you to all the encouragement on the forums for both this hardware and software sides of this project please continue to comment and suggest ways to improve and support Community Squeeze. The Community Squeeze team, [Clive (JackOfAll), John (JohnSwenson), Adrian (Triode)] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98521
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