ralphy wrote: 
> I've managed to build the radio firmware using a workaround for the
> private babydsp sources with 'these steps'
> (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98835-Compile-SqueezeOS-for-quot-Baby-quot-missing-babydsp-so-(BB-Poky-recipe-Private_SVN)&p=963718&viewfull=1#post963718).
> 
> Keep in mind that the squeezeplay in this firmware does not support the
> aac and wma decoders or the old spotify applet, as those are part of the
> private sources as well.
> 
> Now I need to decide if I'm brave enough to load it on my radio! 
> Perhaps a qemu test run first.

Thanks. I did something similar, I think. The whole exercise is packed
up in an Amazon EBS snapshot, so I can't look right now.

I recall that jive_alsa was "bit perfect" (subject to 4 debug hash bytes
of no significance), and that libasound.so.2.0.0 was bit perfect (I was
trying out a few later versions). I did have to define the original
build directory, somewhere in the poky conf file, I think, to get the
build tree the same - it is certainly baked into jive_alsa. Makes binary
comparison somewhat easier.

I never bothered to try out Squeezeplay itself, but my guess is that it
is as bit perfect as it can be ! I haven't looked at capability
reporting, that might need a tweak.

I learned to defang the watchdog (comment out the check for squeezeplay
in watchdog.conf), make sure that remote log in is set to on, and, when
all is apparently lost, remove the battery to get a clean boot and
restore original firmware.

At present I am running a couple of tweaked jive_alsa's, one with a
delayed start to allow buffers to fill at the start of a stream, and one
with a replacement of XRUN errors by silence. This in the context of
ameliorating XRUNS. Both seem to work fine.

But, and here's the thing, I don't seem to be getting XRUNS any more ! I
recently retried the earlier tests that we both ran last year, but
seemed to get no errors. I'll try it again, in case I goofed. But
perhaps some change in LMS has helped.

It will be interesting to see how you get on. I note that you have an
alternative aac decoder in your Squeezeplay builds.


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