Corelli45 wrote: > It was frustrating when Community Squeeze died as I was contemplating > purchasing a Wandboard. > > <SNIP> > > I'm also unsure that the recent Community Squeeze collapse isn't related > to a move to a more commercial venture. If you have a dac addition that > is remarkable sounding, why would you not wish to profit from it?
Corelli45, With all due respect, I dont think your comments about the Community Squeeze Project moving to a more commercial venture are warranted. If you go through the posts by JackOfAll, Triode, and John Swenson over the last several months, I think youd find little or no evidence that a move to commercialize this has occurred. JackOfAll provided a lot of information about the negative impact his involvement in the project had on his financial (and likely mental) well-being. He did try to move some of his contributions to a commercial product, partly to defray this impact, but more to keep it available for the community when he could not on his own. Triode developed and has made Squeezelite available for almost two years on his own dime. Now he appears to be doing the same with Squeeze-on-Arch as a way to keep this project alive and moving when the original path that caused JackOfAll so many problems had to be abandoned. And based on his comments here (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101613-What-happened-to-communitysqueeze-org&p=782396&viewfull=1#post782396), John Swenson is continuing the development of the hardware portion of the CSP. My hope is that this will be available in the near future. Reading around the internet, one can see that John does have a couple of products that are seeing commercial release in the near future the Uptone Audio JS-2 power supply and the Bottlehead DAC. While the latter shares some of the concepts and technology with the CSP hardware, I cant see any way his efforts there impacted this project and I doubt both of these together will do more than provide him with a little drinking money. OTOH, I for one am very interested in the hardware side of this project. Since 2009 Ive been running a computer music server using an I2S-connected DAC as my main music source. I found to work very well sonically and it has been a very rewarding DIY project. But what I have read about Johns Wandboard add-on DAC suggests it will eclipse my efforts. Others have reported good results with not-to-dissimilar setups using the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone (see here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/twisted-pear/250583-building-open-embedded-audio-applicance.html), and other embedded computers. I think the embedded computer plus an I2S-connected DAC is an excellent way to go and it avoids the added complexity of a USB DAC. I too am frustrated by the number of potholes this project has run into over the past 6 months or so. I had hoped to be listening to a CSP since early this year. But the continued development of Squeeze-on-Arch and Johns comment referenced above make me think that the project is not dead yet just resting (and hopefully gathering strength!). Greg in Mississippi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gstew's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881
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