[slim] Crackles with USB-DAC and LMS/Squeezelite
Hello,
I have a Dockstar (on ArchLinux) running LMS and Squeezelite.
The sound has crackles sometimes like a bad FM reception.
My actual material is a Dockstar, an AudioGD Sparrow has USB-DAC, and a
headphone K701
On the Docstar, I have another USB-Key with MPD and the sound is greeat,
so I think it's a setting problem.
Actually I have asound.conf like this:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm softvol
}
pcm.softvol {
type softvol
slave { pcm dmixer }
control {
name Master
card 0
}
}
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm hw:0
period_time 0
period_size 4096
buffer_size 131072
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
pcm.dsnooper {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm hw:0
channels 2
period_time 0
period_size 4096
buffer_size 131072
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.softvol {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}
Someone have an idea ?
Thanks
Skyron
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Re: [slim] Crackles with USB-DAC and LMS/Squeezelite
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See also 'The Echo Nest' (http://the.echonest.com/). Ok, so I did investigate their API a bit (it's extensive!). I do mostly compare with MusicIP (which I've been running for years), as I'd like to have a replacement for smart mixing my own collection. Tests were run on both my dev machine (about 3.5k tracks, MacBook Pro, SSD) as well as my main server (20k tracks, Atom based, 2.5 HD). As The Echo Nest is engine behind most of the larger music services' smart features, I did obviously experience some of the same behaviour as using those. For the differences to eg. Last.fm and Pandora, see this blog by one of the EN founders: http://notes.variogr.am/post/37675885491/how-music-recommendation-works-and-doesnt-work After playing with various implementations of smart playlists (MIP, Pandora, Last.fm, MOG, iHR, Deezer...) I'm glad he shares some of my concerns about them. Pro TEN: - little to no installation effort (assuming there's a plugin available - stay tuned ;-)) - available on any server hardware, even under-powered NAS devices - support for Artist (give me music from artists similar to A) and song (give me similar tracks) mixes - faster than MIP, both scanning/uploading as mixing on my (ymmv) - they have a vast array of well documented options to tweak mixes, including BPM, mood, more/less of this artist, hotttness (yes, hottt!) etc. - Big plus for TEN: it's available and maintained today, while MIP is dangling on a string Contra TEN: - no SB implementation available - yet - the free API access is limited. Only a number of users would be able to use a community driven solution. - TEN doesn't know all my music, MIP does. I've got spotty mixes even with big names like Peter Gabriel. - I personally prefer MIP's mixes. Exploring some of the more advanced parameters might improve this situation. And here's a bit more information about some of above points: - TEN requires you to provide them with some information about your local music collection (artist name track titles). These stay stored on their servers accessible through some key. If you have privacy concerns: don't touch it. (But then we had to upload hashes identifiying our music to MIP as well, didn't we?) - TEN doesn't need to scan your music. If you've got good tags, it's good enough to upload that minimum set of metadata plus some key to get things started. - Uploading metadata for about 20k tracks to TEN was much faster on my Atom based server than importing the corresponding data from MIP (not to mention the scan time MIP needs itself). Creating a 75 track playlist seems quicker using TEN than MIP in my case. - TEN can only mix tracks it knows about. While they claim to have information about 30mio tracks, it won't cover your neighbour's recording of the previous week. Or some more exotic recordings like eg. the German versions Peter Gabriel did of his 3rd and 4th albums. These latter wouldn't mix at all. MIP can handle these, as it scans your music, no matter what it is. Yes, you can upload such files to TEN to have them analyze them, but I doubt this is a reasonable approach. - Mix quality: IMHO it's easier to have eg a rock guitar mix with MIP than with TEN. But then TEN's API is very powerful, and I've only scratched its surface. But it's the same feeling I had with many of the music services: TEN seems to rely more on meta information like if you like artist A, then you might like B as well or periods, whereas MIP is based on their analysis of the music itself. Eg. I'm always surprised how MIP would queue up live recordings if I did seed it with a live track. It must be the audience clapping or something which triggers this. - TEN has tons of options to tweak. It's great to be able to tweak, but providing this in a good UI is difficult. - The free TEN API access is limited: they only allow a certain number of queries per minute (20, upgradeable to 120). FWICT these are shared among all installations using the same API key, and they explicitly forbid using multiple API keys to work around this issue. OTOH they do mention other open source projects which were given less restrictive limits. The same applies to a limitation of 1000 profiles and mix session_ids: if I implemented a plugin and it became very popular, this might be another big issue, as there's at least one profile per installation. As you can imagine I have not come to these conclusions without some coding. Now let's hope I'll find some more time over the Holidays to tinker around with this... -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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As you can imagine I have not come to these conclusions without some coding. Now let's hope I'll find some more time over the Holidays to tinker around with this... While I was typing those lines my Transporter was playing tunes based on some Peter Gabriel track I can't remember, mixing in tracks from Yes, Supertramp, Marillion, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Toto, Genesis, David Bowie, The Police... Almost 80s only. That's what I never liked about every smart playlist on all those music services which seem to be powered by TEN: They pin down PG to his big 80s hit Sledgehammer. Anything before and after that does not exist in their mixes. MIP doesn't do this. Maybe I should increase the adventurousness value for the mix? Or lift the min_energy level? Too many options there... -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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I am probably being totally dense and missing the blindingly obvious, but I cannot find a button for the + context menu anywhere? This is available on the browser interface, the hardware Controller and Squeeze Commander but I cannot find it on Orange Squeeze. It is a notable absentee on the official app and it is the only reason why, despite its horribly un-intuitive user interface, that I continue to use Squeeze Commander. TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!
TheLastMan wrote: I am probably being totally dense and missing the blindingly obvious, but I cannot find a button for the + context menu anywhere? This is available on the browser interface, the hardware Controller and Squeeze Commander but I cannot find it on Orange Squeeze. It is a notable absentee on the official app and it is the only reason why, despite its horribly un-intuitive user interface, that I continue to use Squeeze Commander. Just press and hold for a second or two on any Artist, Album, Track, or Album art. kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!
TheLastMan wrote: It is a notable absentee on the official app BTW: you can get that menu in the official App, too. The same way as in OrangeSqueeze. And indeed also in SqueezeCommander. And on the Squeezebox Touch :) And in iPeng (that's where it originates from, I believe). pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!
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Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!
Hi there... So I just installed Orange Squeeze 1.3.1 on my Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.2.1). Very often (though not every time), when I tried to connect to mysqueezebox.com or my own LMS server, Orange Squeeze tries to connect, and then says Timeout waiting for server connection to complete. Then, other times, it connects. Is this a known issue? It is rather frustrating. Squeeze Commander has never had any problems connecting in my home environment like this. - Tim tbessie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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After installing Orange Squeeze, I see it has several processes/services running, even when I'm not using it. Is there any way to configure it to NOT have these running if the app is not running in the foreground? I hate it when apps run all the time like that. - Tim tbessie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!
tbessie wrote: After installing Orange Squeeze, I see it has several processes/services running, even when I'm not using it. Is there any way to configure it to NOT have these running if the app is not running in the foreground? I hate it when apps run all the time like that. First off, don't assume that a service running means that there is anything happening or power drain from the process. It doesn't. One service runs all the time: the power management service. It simply receives notifications when the screen turns on and off, wifi comes up and down, etc. There are no active running threads or connections associated with this service and it will not take any cpu or draw any power. There is no way to disable this although you could try experimenting with task killers, etc. to kill it if you like. It won't accomplish anything, but do what you like. It will break some of the app behavior if this service is not running (specifically, power saving features). There is a second service and that maintains a connection to the server. You absolutely need this if you use the widgets at all. If you don't use the widgets and are OK with the connection being dropped every time Orange Squeeze moves to the background (any task comes in front of it) then you can set the connection timeout in the preferences to a very low value. The default will have the service shut itself down after a minute or two of the app being in the background (and no widgets). My advice: before you spent too much time worrying about it, check your device power management screen to see if the app is actually taking any significant power. If it's not taking power, then it's also not slowing your device down because cpu usage = power drain. You can only do these tests if the device is running off battery, by the way. db122's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4076 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!
tbessie wrote: So I just installed Orange Squeeze 1.3.1 on my Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.2.1). I have the same device. Very often (though not every time), when I tried to connect to mysqueezebox.com or my own LMS server, Orange Squeeze tries to connect, and then says Timeout waiting for server connection to complete. This has been a problem in the past, but I haven't seen it lately. What server version are you running? FWIW, I start and stop the app dozens of times per day and don't see it. It doesn't improve your experience -- sorry. :-) One thing about the Galaxy Nexus is that the Wifi performance/range is horrible. I had to install a repeater so that I could use the device reliably in my office, and my Macbook Pro has a very high signal. It could be that Orange Squeeze is less tolerant of requests that go unanswered or are lost than Squeeze Commander, or it could be a race condition that simply doesn't expose itself in my testing. The more details I can get about your situation, the better. Enable Verbose Logging in advanced preferences, and when you get a timeout situation to occur, go back to preferences and hit submit logs. Fill in your email address or some other identifier (can just be tbessie) so that I can associate the requests to you. db122's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4076 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?
See also 'The Echo Nest' (http://the.echonest.com/). Ok, so I did investigate their API a bit (it's extensive!). I do mostly compare with MusicIP (which I've been running for years), as I'd like to have a replacement for smart mixing my own collection. Tests were run on both my dev machine (about 3.5k tracks, MacBook Pro, SSD) as well as my main server (20k tracks, Atom based, 2.5 HD). As The Echo Nest is engine behind most of the larger music services' smart features, I did obviously experience some of the same behaviour as using those. For the differences to eg. Last.fm and Pandora, see this blog by one of the EN founders: http://notes.variogr.am/post/37675885491/how-music-recommendation-works-and-doesnt-work After playing with various implementations of smart playlists (MIP, Pandora, Last.fm, MOG, iHR, Deezer...) I'm glad he shares some of my concerns about them. Pro TEN: - little to no installation effort (assuming there's a plugin available - stay tuned ;-)) - available on any server hardware, even under-powered NAS devices - support for Artist (give me music from artists similar to A) and song (give me similar tracks) mixes - faster than MIP, both scanning/uploading as mixing on my (ymmv) - they have a vast array of well documented options to tweak mixes, including BPM, mood, more/less of this artist, hotttness (yes, hottt!) etc. - Big plus for TEN: it's available and maintained today, while MIP is dangling on a string Contra TEN: - no SB implementation available - yet - the free API access is limited. Only a number of users would be able to use a community driven solution. - TEN doesn't know all my music, MIP does. I've got spotty mixes even with big names like Peter Gabriel. - I personally prefer MIP's mixes. Exploring some of the more advanced parameters might improve this situation. And here's a bit more information about some of above points: - TEN requires you to provide them with some information about your local music collection (artist name track titles). These stay stored on their servers accessible through some key. If you have privacy concerns: don't touch it. (But then we had to upload hashes identifiying our music to MIP as well, didn't we?) - TEN doesn't need to scan your music. If you've got good tags, it's good enough to upload that minimum set of metadata plus some key to get things started. - Uploading metadata for about 20k tracks to TEN was much faster on my Atom based server than importing the corresponding data from MIP (not to mention the scan time MIP needs itself). Creating a 75 track playlist seems quicker using TEN than MIP in my case. - TEN can only mix tracks it knows about. While they claim to have information about 30mio tracks, it won't cover your neighbour's recording of the previous week. Or some more exotic recordings like eg. the German versions Peter Gabriel did of his 3rd and 4th albums. These latter wouldn't mix at all. MIP can handle these, as it scans your music, no matter what it is. Yes, you can upload such files to TEN to have them analyze them, but I doubt this is a reasonable approach. - Mix quality: IMHO it's easier to have eg a rock guitar mix with MIP than with TEN. But then TEN's API is very powerful, and I've only scratched its surface. But it's the same feeling I had with many of the music services: TEN seems to rely more on meta information like if you like artist A, then you might like B as well or periods, whereas MIP is based on their analysis of the music itself. Eg. I'm always surprised how MIP would queue up live recordings if I did seed it with a live track. It must be the audience clapping or something which triggers this. - TEN has tons of options to tweak. It's great to be able to tweak, but providing this in a good UI is difficult. - The free TEN API access is limited: they only allow a certain number of queries per minute (20, upgradeable to 120). FWICT these are shared among all installations using the same API key, and they explicitly forbid using multiple API keys to work around this issue. OTOH they do mention other open source projects which were given less restrictive limits. The same applies to a limitation of 1000 profiles and mix session_ids: if I implemented a plugin and it became very popular, this might be another big issue, as there's at least one profile per installation. As you can imagine I have not come to these conclusions without some coding. Now let's hope I'll find some more time over the Holidays to tinker around with this... While I was typing these lines my Transporter was playing tunes based on some Peter Gabriel track I can't remember, mixing in tracks from Yes, Supertramp, Marillion, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Toto, Genesis, David Bowie, The Police... Almost 80s only. That's what I never liked about every smart playlist on all those music services which seem to be powered by TEN: They pin down PG to his big 80s hit Sledgehammer. Anything before and after that does not exist in their
Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!
kidstypike wrote: Just press and hold for a second or two on any Artist, Album, Track, or Album art. Ah... I knew it must be there somewhere! I have turned on the context sensitive tips until I get used to it. Love the interface by the way, very intelligent use of the space in portrait mode. TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!
db122 - Thanks for all the info! I won't worry about the background processes, and will just take your word for it. You know, old engineer's habit, suspicion of unknown processes. :-) As for the connection issues - yeah, I've notice that my Galaxy Nexus has been having WiFi connectivity issues; they seemed to have gotten worse when I upgraded to Jelly Bean (and I've seen complaints about this specific issue online). I also upgraded my router's firmware around the same time, so I didn't want to pin it on the phone only, but if others have had WiFi problems with this device (dropouts when I'm just around the corner from the router, for example), then that seems a likely culprit. I'll keep using Orange Squeeze and see if this keeps happening, especially when I'm right next to the router. If it does keep happening, I'll turn on the log and send it to you. Thanks again for your voluminous and helpful replies! :-) - Tim tbessie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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