DaveWr wrote:
The Pi built in audio has NO DAC. It uses pulse width modulation of
pins in software to create an approximation of an audio signal.
Recently this was improved a little with some kernel changes. In order
to get good audio, it either a USB or I2S solution required. Many
DJanGo wrote:
Hi,
yupp, *but* you need an HDMI Converter thats nearly the same size as a
USB DAC or the Pi itself...
So, you can't just use the HDMI port on the Pi itself?
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DJanGo wrote:
Do you have an HDMI Input on your Amp? If not you need a Converter if
yes you need nothing but a cable.
I have an HDMI input on my receiver, which works with both my Oppo
player and my laptop as a digital input -- but get no audio when using
the Pi.
I know -- like anyone else frequenting these forums -- that Logitech
stopped producing the Squeezebox line. I'm referring to developments
such as Community Squeeze, players like SqueezeLite, and the like.
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After reading and discussing matters here a while ago, I put together a
Pi (rev. B) to run SqueezePlug. I got various parts (PSU, WiFi adapter,
etc. from the approved lists, and put it together using the video
instructions at squeezeplug.de. I installed both LMS and SqueezeLite.
THE GOOD: The
Nobody has any ideas?
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I was wondering if there is any consideration currently being given to
including the ability to play multichannel FLACs on future SB-system
development, in particular sending a digital bitstream out the HDMI
port? If anyone could give me any information, I'd greatly appreciate
it!
That seems to have done the trick -- thanks!
Now, all that's left to do is try to get digital audio out the HDMI
port, and replace the flash drive with a fully-loaded HD...
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If I hook a SqueezePlug device up to the HDMI input on my A/V receiver,
is it going to send a PCM bitstream to the receiver's built-in DAC, or
is it going to send analog audio processed by the Pi's own DAC? If the
latter, is there any way to switch it to PCM digital, or am I going to
have to
When I first built my SqueezePlug, I had it temporarily connected as a
cabled device to my router, and it worked fine.
I just attached an AirLink N150 USB adapter (on approved list). I
went into setup, configured the WAN settings to use DHCP, my network
name and WPA password (and, yes, I know
I don't see SoX running (which it wouldn't if LMS wasn't invoking it),
but the total load on the CPU -- except at the very start of play when
it jumped to around 79% for a couple of seconds -- has been running at
around 15% or lower. A lot of the time, it's at more than 90% idle.
Well, SoX is on my system (big surprise, since it is the SqueezePlug
install), but it doesn't seem to be resampling sources greater than
24/96 (in other words, play a 24/192 file, get silence). Does anyone
know how to turn on resampling? A web search seems to get divided
opinion, with half the
O.K., I've got SqueezePlug (sort of) running on a Pi with LMS. I want to
configure SoX resampling, which currently doesn't seem to be working (or
isn't installed at all?). At this point, I'm lost. In what directory on
the Pi would I be able to find a) the LMS config files and b) SoX (if
O.K., I downloaded it and tried to install it, to no avail. The new
SqueezePlay Beta and SqueezeLite both start up and promptly hang. I
tried using regsvr32 to register the DLL, and was told I couldn't, as
there was no entry point found. ???
cadfish wrote:
Of course, the easiest way to solve this problem is to avoid umlauts
completely, but sometimes this is just not possible
It certainly isn't possible in my case, as I have several thousand
albums already tagged -- including lots of German classical music.
Not knowing
I'm not expecting super-performance from the Pi, just better capability
than on my current NAS, which is a closed system that only allows the
capabilities of the pre-installed Squeezebox Server -- no way to upgrade
to LMS, no plug-ins, no SoX resampling, and not even a way to access the
kesey wrote:
You would not need to connect your USB drive to your PC to transfer
files, unless you particularly wanted to. You could transfer files using
Samba...just install Samba from the Squeezeplug suite and you'll be set.
Truehl (Thomas) did a great job on that package.
True, but I
lrossouw wrote:
This is why you shouldn't double post: I see you have another thread on
this:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98945-DirectIO-dllamp;amp;goto=newpost
I posted this first, got zero response -- then, when I tried the new
SqueezePlay and found I was getting the
I noticed a version available on the download page but, every time I try
to install it, I get an error message saying I don't have DirectIO.dll.
Has anyone successfully installed this version?
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In an earlier thread, I had asked about building a SB Touch
replacement that would be purely a player streaming from an existing
NAS. After reviewing the options, I'm leaning more towards going with a
full SqueezePlug build to get around some limitations with the way the
NAS does server duty. My
I recently downloaded the latest version of SqueezePlay as well as
SqueezeLite for Windows, and find that I can't get either to run because
DirectIO.dll is missing. Furthermore, my old install of an earlier
version of SqueezePlay will no longer run, giving me the same error
dialog.
Based on
Anybody???
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I've never set it to anything, but I'll see what happens if I hard-code
it to use DirectSound.
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Interim result -- I finally got annoyed enough to simply uninstall
SqueezePlay entirely and then re-install the beta from scratch. Good
news: it no longer gives me the DirectIO error. Bad news: on my XP
machine, it simply hangs after displaying the initial Free Your Music
message. So, I wound up
I'll agree -- the info here (updated as needed) ought to be a sticky.
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Thanks, erland. A couple more quick questions:
1) If I were going to use the Pi with SqueezeLite, but didn't need to
run LMS on it (because it would be running on a separate machine), would
I still need to install SqueezePlug first? In other words, on the Pi,
is SqueezePlug a prerequisite to
hubbaloo wrote:
If it is just a player try piCoPlayer:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97803-piCoPlayer-Squeezelite-on-Microcore-linux-An-embedded-OS-in-RAM-with-Squeezelite
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out.
So, I've been gone for many months and come back here to find lots of
unfamiliar names being tossed around: SqueezePlug/SqueezeLite/Community
Squeeze/Wandboard/Raspberry-Pi. All with long threads filled with
hundreds of techie-jargon-filled posts which only make this layman
thoroughly confused
Just found this thread -- so, has any progress been made with getting
wi-fi up and running yet? There's simply no way I could keep such a
system hardwired to my router and hooked-up to my audio system at the
same time.
Logitech bought out two of the best, most highly-praised products in
home-entertainment integration, the SB and the Harmony remote, and
managed to run them BOTH into the ground. Hard to imagine anyone pulling
off such a feat without actually setting out to destroy the company,
but it seems
If my Touch stopped working, I'd keep using my perfectly-workable SB
Server installation on my NAS, and use iPeng on an iPod Touch with a
suitable dock rather than ever use iTunes and its crippled, brain-dead
way of classifying metadata (only one artist and genre per track, for
example) or
What is all this (affected, IMHO) crap about Squeezeboxen and bit
perfecten...? Some special way for Mac devotees to put down those of
us who haven't moved on (sic) to bow in adoration at The Church of
Jobs?
As far as I can tell, playing hires files through my Touch's coax
digital out to the
jimzak wrote:
How about a small computer with SqueezePlay?
Someone would have to hack SqueezePlay so it handled hi-res files; right
now, I believe the best it can do is 24/48.
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Squeezemenicely wrote:
At the moment the only fullfunctional alternative I see is an iPod
running iPeng on a dock with SPDIF out. Adding the cost of the hardware
it would still be cheaper than a Touch.
That's pretty much the way I see it as well. For the time being, I'm
going to continue
I applaud erland's (and other's) plans to keep SB alive post-Logitech,
but here's the most important immediate question: is there a forum or
other such site for SB to continue on if (when) Logitech pulls the plug
on this one? Personally, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see it
happen very
routehero wrote:
There aren't any plans to pull the plug on the forums.
Are these forums not owned and controlled by Logitech?
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Well, that makes a lot more sense. I'll have to check with Buffalo Tech
Support (yet again) to see about Sox. FWIW, the File Types screen I
mentioned earlier does invoke Sox for some of the options (such as
handling Ogg Vorbis files), but that doesn't necessarily mean the
program is there. I
Well, it was that, or else running both LMS and Squeezeplay on the same
machine was a problem. I'll grant that this computer is far from new (I
think I built it around five years ago) and is only running an AMD
5600+, so it doesn't compare with modern builds.
SqueezeCast works fine on a standard install but requires access to the
CLI port. If you have a LinkStation Pro NAS device, which comes with a
pre-installed version of SBS but blocks the CLI port, you're SOL with
that app. (This may be the case with other SBS/LMS installs on an NAS
or anything
For some time, I've been using Squeezeplay as a player on my PCs, using
SBS and later LMS running on my desktop PC with an Ethernet connection
to our router. While it worked in most cases, I had a major problem
with stuttering and rebuffering when playing back 24/88 or 24/96 files,
even when my
pippin wrote:
iPeng does only use the HTTP port for control and the Streaming port
(3483) for playback, just like the Squeezebox itself.
It doesn't use the CLI port.
I don't think SqueezeCast is still under a lot of development, judging
by it's update history.
Thank you!!! I had only
Now I'm confused. Does SBS/LMS determine whether to downsample based on
the player being used, or does it handle all streams the same regardless
of the player? According to the Advanced Settings in the File Types
section, FLAC to FLAC is supposed to be handled natively, and, when
played on the
you recommend I upgrade to LMS or stick with 7.6.1?
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was to go with 7.6.2. Or does it offer so
little improvement, it would be better not to bother?
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(knock on wood).
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is attainable (without, say, having to spring for a
new computer to do so)?
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