[SlimDevices: Touch] One cause of rebuffering on the Touch

2011-05-27 Thread PasTim
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Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One cause of rebuffering on the Touch

2011-07-12 Thread PasTim
and for internet radio. Just don't ask me about DNLA, UPnP, video codecs, .ts files, different versions of WMP, and the like. I'll stick to the music. -- PasTim PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-11 Thread PasTim
a regular nuisance. It is unclear what the changes are each time, if any. Is there a list anywhere for beta nightly updates to firmware? I'm not updating the server regularly now, since I have a stable system. -- PasTim

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-11 Thread PasTim
Advanced Software Updates It is not clear to me that this stops the Touch updates - does it? The server says there are no updates available (even when there are new nightlies). -- PasTim PasTim's Profile: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-11 Thread PasTim
looked at a few and found nothing about Touch firmware, even though there are frequent updates. -- PasTim PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-11 Thread PasTim
like many bits of writing I don't agree with), or what? And yes, I am a bit older, greyer and balder than I used to be, probably a bit of a pedant, and off-topic to boot. Sorry. -- PasTim PasTim's Profile: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-11 Thread PasTim
interpretation. ;-) I suppose I should respond +1, but I'm still not quite sure that like is what I mean to say :) I never was any good at brevity. -- PasTim PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-12 Thread PasTim
pallfreeman;649079 Wrote: Um, +1. Or like, or something. We said m32 in bygone l33t days. Me too, nam sayin? I am now totally lost in a language I don't know. Ah well, nothing new there. -- PasTim PasTim's Profile

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-12 Thread PasTim
to see if there's anything important available. Listening to my music is more important than spending too much time fiddling with software. -- PasTim PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-13 Thread PasTim
lots of good stuff was promised). Nonetheless, as far as the main topic of this thread is concerned, turning off the software update option seems to solve the issue, even if you connect to MySB. -- PasTim PasTim's Profile

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-13 Thread PasTim
. That sounds like good news. :) -- PasTim PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89529

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-13 Thread PasTim
, rather than the 7.6.1 version. My assumption is, therefore, that MySB ignores any beta versions. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-13 Thread PasTim
the instructions at present. However, MySB may well ask for an update again. BTW - On the Touch, if the press the button on the remote you can skip any update request. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out to ageing

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-13 Thread PasTim
from the responses. Forums work well providing we all try and help each other, and if things gets contrary assume that we have got a misunderstanding rather than a disagreement. I live in hope that the above is not open to misinterpretation! -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-14 Thread PasTim
. However, since you are probably right, it would help if the hardware firmware versions showed some relationship to the SBS versions. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Constant software updates on Touch/Duet Controller

2011-08-14 Thread PasTim
, and thanks for the information. I stopped the auto-updates when my PC server was on 33032, and that's what shows for the server on the Touch. My PC is now on 33048 and will stay there for a while until any useful fixes (or a stable formal release) arrives. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One cause of rebuffering on the Touch

2011-08-30 Thread PasTim
with audiophilia) I usually get corrected pretty quickly, and mostly quite politely, so I'm not too shy of trying again! -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One cause of rebuffering on the Touch

2011-08-31 Thread PasTim
of transmitting PCM rather than FLAC is measurable (using ADM). Whether one can hear a difference is a different matter. That's not the topic of this thread. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One cause of rebuffering on the Touch

2011-08-31 Thread PasTim
and annoying effects. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server using Chrome

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One cause of rebuffering on the Touch

2011-08-31 Thread PasTim
didn't try with the analogue out. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server using Chrome

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One cause of rebuffering on the Touch

2011-08-31 Thread PasTim
signature below) but was running with SPDIF into the sound card since I thought it might tell me something interesting. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One cause of rebuffering on the Touch

2011-09-01 Thread PasTim
, and/or M-audio card, and/or drivers, and/or etc are playing up, and playing up reasonably consistently. Not having a separate DAC this is only of theoretical interest to me. Trying to find the cause of what would appear to be a repeatable 'accident' is probably beyond me. -- PasTim Server

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-07-12 Thread PasTim
I have the enhanced kernel installed on my Touch. I'm running LMS 7.8 on a Vortebox appliance, playing FLACs, with the File Type set to PCM only. The connection to the Touch is wired. The Touch is outputting Digital (only) to a Musical Fidelity M1 Clic. Once in a while the system stutters

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-07-13 Thread PasTim
JohnSwenson wrote: The server starts sending the next track about 10 seconds before the end of the current track so the player has data when the current track ends so there is no gap. It's also doing things like sending track data and cover art. It might have something to do cover art, or

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-08-03 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: Thanks. I know a few things already, such as it happens playing sequential tracks on the same album, same sampling rate, same disk, no change in covert art (and art not displayed anyway). If I look at the server processes I see the flac process dying and then restarting

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-08-18 Thread PasTim
scintilla wrote: I moved my server to a new iMac and changed my router to a new Time Capsule about a month ago. No problem getting LMS up and going on the mac. But I can't seem to figure out what is up with the network. 24/192k files will no longer play without continuous dropouts. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-08-22 Thread PasTim
Stratmangler wrote: Optical is only guaranteed to handle up to 24/96. The V-DAC II spec says it will only handle 24/96. See http://www.musicalfidelity.com/uploads/catalogerfiles/v-dacii/4_VDACii_24-96asynchUSB_manual.pdf I have the M1-CLiC, and it will only handle 192 on Coax. LMS 7.8 on

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-08-22 Thread PasTim
Stratmangler wrote: My DAC is a M2Tech Evo, and it will only handle 24/192 over coax too. The best I've managed over optical is 24/96, but I'm not sure if the limiting part is the optical out from the Touch or the optical in on the DAC. I suspect that it's the Touch - why put in a faster

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-08-22 Thread PasTim
Stratmangler wrote: It's the speed of the optical send unit - it ain't fast enough. The original spec for the Touch was 24/96 files max. EDO is not an officially supported plugin, and without EDO the Touch doesn't do 24/192 natively. Fair enough, but since the original problem was with a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-08-22 Thread PasTim
Riplee wrote: .. but I must say...the settings in the LMS under File Types is a bit confusing...perhaps someone can tell me exactly how that should be set to send FALC and not wav...just to be sure. Any input appreciated!! Riplee Assuming your files are all in FLAC format, go to the File

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-08-22 Thread PasTim
onlyconnect wrote: I've installed LMS 7.7.3 and now my Touch, which has the EDO firmware installed, is trying to update its firmware. Any way I can stop this happening, or update EDO to avoid it? Tim If you stop the automatic server updates (Settings, Advanced, Software Updates) the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-09-14 Thread PasTim
guidof wrote: John, thank you very much for your suggestion to use flac streaming. I'm sure what this means, and more important how one does it, is clear to most, but it is unfortunately not so to me. I *was* attempting to play 24/192 FLAC files through the SBT coax digital output with EDO.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-09-14 Thread PasTim
Mnyb wrote: If you have flac files its important to have flac set to native or else the server transcodes to WAV . This is the default setting btw . If you have a decent network (preferably wired) you can use PCM and decode the FLACS on the server - I do, and it works very well with LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-10-13 Thread PasTim
I see quite a lot of talk now about using DSDs with LMS, which I broadly understand. I use foobar2000 on linux, which works perfectly and is still streets ahead of any similar tool - it even forms my backup strategy should my Touches fail, using UPnP and a tailored controller menu that can use

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-10-14 Thread PasTim
Holzohr wrote: @PasTim... That`s a complex topic. I recommend to have a look at the AudioCircle forum: http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?board=150.0 Yes, for ripping SACDs you need a certain PS3 with a certain firmware. interesting threads: - SACD ripping using a PS3 http

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-10-14 Thread PasTim
Holzohr wrote: Maybe you can find someone with such a PS3 who can rip these discs for you. There are UK members in that forum. There are offers for this special service though from US forum members. Thanks, but I'll give that a miss. If I find another source of enough DSDs that I want I

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-11-12 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: Thanks. I know a few things already, such as it happens playing sequential tracks on the same album, same sampling rate, same disk, no change in covert art (and art not displayed anyway). If I look at the server processes I see the flac process dying and then restarting

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2013-12-04 Thread PasTim
jwojno wrote: Indeed optical won't work at 192k unless the optical cable has a speed rating of 10K or something like that. Will 176/192K playback be possible using Coax connection and running the USB output App? Or do you have to be using an actual USB connection? Any recommendation on

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-06 Thread PasTim
sprint wrote: My setup comprises of a Vortexbox connected to a SBT via an Ethernet cable, which is configured in EDO mode. The SBT is then connected to a MDAC via a USB cable. All controlled remotely via an iPad air with ipeng installed. I ripped all my CD's about a year ago and at that

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-10 Thread PasTim
JohnSwenson wrote: I would do some tests to try and narrow things down. Does the the whine happen just when music is playing or all the time? Does it happen when the Touch's power is unplugged? Does unplugging the USB cable from the Touch make a difference? I'm thinking it might be a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-16 Thread PasTim
pierrepfeffer wrote: OK - I'm through page 38 of this thread. Seems LMS converts alac to flac on the fly. So why the EDO disclaimer limiting EDO digital out on Touch to flac? My alac files don't play with EDO, but why? What LMS server setting should I be using for alac? You might try

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-16 Thread PasTim
pierrepfeffer wrote: OK- thanks. Under apple lossless I have set as follows: apple lossless: disabled flac: faad/sox mp3:disabled pcm:faad Look right? So does that mean that before, when set to play alac native it wan't converting to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread PasTim
pierrepfeffer wrote: PasTim and Mnyb, thank you for your input. I was unable to get the dac to play (register) anything beyond 96 sample rate while playing 192 sample rate alac files no matter what combination of server settings I chose. I shouldn't be too surprised given Triode's

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-19 Thread PasTim
pierrepfeffer wrote: apple lossless: disabled flac: faad/sox mp3: disabled pcm: disaled Using the above server settings, and using the coax connection between touch and dacmagic 100, I appear to be getting 192 frequency through to the dac when playing 192 alac files. Switching

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-02-21 Thread PasTim
xtrips wrote: Hello, Since I am using EDO the Buffersize cannot be modified and stays at 2ms. Now I am not sure if these 2 things are connected but that's a fact now. Is that ok? Can I/Should I modify the Buffersize as specified in the TouchToolbox 3.0? I am using the 7.7.3 Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-05-06 Thread PasTim
tdgruen wrote: I appreciate it Armin. I went to that thread and unfortunately it's over my head. If there's not a place to go in the regular SBT menu, I'm probably unlikely to be able to implement the change unless someone were to hold my hand every step of the way. Did the other

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-05-07 Thread PasTim
tdgruen wrote: Not exactly sure what you're asking. SBT is connected to the network through wifi. macbook pro through wifi. But as I mentioned in a previous post, I have been running things this way for a while. The only thing that changed is a new DAC. This DAC is 192 capable through

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-05-07 Thread PasTim
With EDO there are some buffer size change facilities accessed via the Touch menu (tot Squeezeplay, nor the web GUI). Go to Settings, Advanced, Digital Output. There are a variety of 'tweaks' here. You should use Select Audio Output and set it to Digital Only. Beyond that, there are further

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-05-07 Thread PasTim
tdgruen wrote: Right now it's already preselected to Default Settings, the first choice on the list. Should I just play around and see?.. Yes :) My DAC only supports low rate USB, so I haven't experimented with that side of things, but just used Coax. In your place I'd probably try the

[SlimDevices: Touch] Touch artist display

2014-05-24 Thread PasTim
On my Touch the 2nd row seems to display a random combination of Artist, AlbumArtist, Composer, Band, Conductor etc. I have never fathomed what the rules are, if any. My tags have many of these, often multiples. Is there some 'length' rule being employed to keep the size down? In my Settings,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-08-13 Thread PasTim
Cut-Throat wrote: Well, I decided buy a Dragonfly and try it, since it seems not many are using it here. Everything is working fine except for the Volume from the Dac seems about 50% of what the Squeezebox normally puts out. I can see how to adjust the volume of the Dragonfly Dac when Hooked

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-08-15 Thread PasTim
Cut-Throat wrote: This DAC is listed on the very first post of this thread. Under Audioquest --- Here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqiK6WHnz5FHdEtlalVRb29pX3N2WXhfMlAzNmFMZnc#gid=0 I connected my Touch and tried to find the alsa settings when connected to my DAC. They

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-09-01 Thread PasTim
HikeForFood wrote: Speaking of the future, I know that I am not the only person who is upset about the discontinuation of the SBT. In my case I manage 5 of them in 3 separate locations, and all are playing 192 kHz/24-bit files using EDO (many thanks to Triode). I would even like to acquire

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-09-01 Thread PasTim
pierreh wrote: It should work also by putting it on a local http server together with an xml description file, and giving the right URL in field Additional repositories of the Plugins tab. But for me it has not worked any longer after I upgraded the server to 7.8 (?). I wasn't aware you

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-09-02 Thread PasTim
pierreh wrote: On the plugins tab you just specify where the applets files reside. Downloading them is done using Touch menus. There must be some other way of loading EDO locally, isn't there? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-09-02 Thread PasTim
pierreh wrote: EDO uses http for loading the modified kernel. So the latter must resides on a locally reachable web site of which URL has to be patched into the applet. I think I could just about manage that, since I have a local web server for other reasons, but for those of us even more

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-09-08 Thread PasTim
DavidBulluss wrote: Hmmm... quite a good thought! As I understand it the DAC (built into my DENON AVR2113) is supposedly capable of converting 24/192 (according to Denon). I am using the EDO app as per this thread and expect that 24/192 is being sent over the TosLink to the DAC input. The

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-01-17 Thread PasTim
ghostdot wrote: hi all, I've been trying for a while to connect my EDOed sbt to the DAC of yamaha sacd player cd-s2100 via usb with no luck. I've tried with and without USB hub, longer/shorter/premium/crappy cables, but sbt does not list yamaha as usb dac and yamaha keeps telling me to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-01-11 Thread PasTim
doctor_big wrote: It's not a file edit. It was a command line thingy -- I typed it in and it did stuff. Only problem is, when the Touch reboots, I need to type it in to do that stuff again. I'm a mainframe programmer -- I could figure something out in COBOL and JCL, but Linux? Sheesh!

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-04-22 Thread PasTim
john greenwood wrote: This has probably been answered in this thread but my search didn't find it. In the testing I did earlier today, it appeared that selecting that as a source activated the coaxial, optical and analog connections simultaneously, but not the USB connection. Query as to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-05-15 Thread PasTim
guidof wrote: In my system, the Benchmark is shown (on the SBT) as the DAC and in the information panel, the DAC is shown as playing via a hub, I.e., the REGEN. So, the REGEN is transparent to the SBT, but I'm not sure if it's also transparent to Squeezelite. I just wonder, sometimes, with

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-08-13 Thread PasTim
rayman1701 wrote: I'm just using the default settings. It's the fact it worked fine a week or so ago, then all of a sudden one is and one isn't. That's the part that is confusing me, I could get it if neither worked with ALAC or over the USB, that's the fun of troubleshooting with

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-08-13 Thread PasTim
rayman1701 wrote: Yeah it's a wired connection. Checked everything, even rebooted the laptop server. Just so weird that it was working perfectly and then just not playing 192 without dropouts. The only other thing I've done is created a custom Now Playing screen, with Erlands plug in, it

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-08-12 Thread PasTim
rayman1701 wrote: So can EDO just become corrupted for lack of a better word, over time? I installed a couple of weeks or so ago when I updated to 7.9. Everything was working perfect the couple of 24/192 albums I had would play beautifully thru my Touch and Marantz receiver over coax. Then

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-07-09 Thread PasTim
cfseibert wrote: When I switch from Digital and analog to digital only and back in the output prefs, I get a momentary screen that says something to the effect of Enhanced Digital Output not supported by Logitech on one Touch and on the questionable one I do not. When you power up both

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2015-11-23 Thread PasTim
zhaochen wrote: > thank you for your help, have tried, can not solve the problem. Can you explain precisely what you have done so far? On my system when I installed the EDO app it then updated the kernel itself, rebooting automatically - I did not have to do anything else. I'm no expert on this

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2016-03-08 Thread PasTim
Mnyb wrote: > The limitation is in the player 24/48 is what the SB3 can do even on its > digital out it can not "pass trough" any thing of a higher rate. So if > you have a 24/96 or 24/192 file you have to transcode it down to 24/48 > . > > The EDO plugin does two things for a Squeezebox Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2016-08-31 Thread PasTim
Learnincurve wrote: > Wow! Fantastic news that Ralphy has taken on Triode's EDO and kernels! > > Does anyone know if any documentation or descriptions existed for the > kernels and how we can make informed guesses about which one to use? You shouldn't need to add an extra repo - see last post

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2017-08-07 Thread PasTim
drmatt wrote: > I think the prospect of controlling the touch from its own screen is > pretty scary for anyone, and is why god invented android tablets. > > > -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- You would be surprised. LMS 7.9.1 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 17.04, FLACs 16->24

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2017-09-15 Thread PasTim
Aymen007 wrote: > Thank you for your answer > please i need know how i can save setting because if i cut power all > setting is reseted This should not happen. I cut the power on mine every day, and the settings are not lost. I don't know if there is a battery in them. Since EDO would seem to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch ssh security updates

2017-10-19 Thread PasTim
Thanks all - message received! I did have reasons for enabling ssh in the past - trying out some tweaks if I recall correctly. I'll switch it off. LMS 7.9.1 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 17.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Touch & EDO. 2nd Touch standard. LMS plugin UPnP/DLNA Bridge to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-06-01 Thread PasTim
Daiyama wrote: > On the restart after installing EDO I do not get this option to chose a > DAC. SBT simply starts to the main menu. Under settings -> audio > settings -> I only have the option between analog + digital or digital > only, no USB to select. > > I also asked in the official RME

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-06-02 Thread PasTim
Daiyama wrote: > You are right, it is not a big loss. > It is more the engineer in me trying to get something to work that > should work. ;) I know the feeling only too well, and all the lost hours However, with computer software that I can't get at in enough detail to understand and fix

[SlimDevices: Touch] Touch ssh security updates

2017-10-19 Thread PasTim
I have a network security scanner that says that the ssh on the Touch is insecure. Is there a way of updating some of the basic systems on the Touch (eg using apt-get or similar functions). LMS 7.9.1 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 17.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Touch & EDO. 2nd

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-02-14 Thread PasTim
cramcram wrote: > I guess this has been asked before, but I didn't find the answer > searching the forum. Can EDO be configured thus that the Touches coaxial > output is limited to 96 khz (resampling on the server). My external DAC > only supports bitrates up to 96 khz. You may be able to do

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-09-11 Thread PasTim
slartibartfast wrote: > But it goes up to 32/768 on USB. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Ah, so it does, I only had a very quick look. Still, no harm in trying is there? Maybe the EDO Touch is better with coax (which is what I use)? LMS 7.9.1 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 17.10,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-09-11 Thread PasTim
Johnhunt wrote: > Hi all > > I have an sbt and want to use it to stream Qobuz high res to a project > s2 dac. I have everything working with EDO , a usb connection with > powered hub , a good wifi connection but I am getting drop outs with > 192k music. I’m using the biggest buffer in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-08 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: > This "feels" like it could be a network issue. Just because the > headphones require PCM - doesn't mean you have to sent audio to Touch in > PCM. > Sending data as PCM to Touch : > 1. Takes up more network bandwidth. > 2. Reduces time effectively buffered by Touch > 3. Use more

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-08 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: > OK - before disabling c-3po - can you enable logging to see what > processing it is doing ? Alternatively If the files are more than 5-10 > mins long - you could do a "ps" and see what LMS subprocesses are active c-3po has to use flac to convert to wav, then sox to apply my

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-08 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: > I don't understand what you mean by "uncompressed flac" - as I > understand it Flac is by definition a compressed format. > Is the flac sent natively to Touch ? As I understand it, flac has compression rates from 0 to 9. Uncompressed flac (0) has almost no compression, but has

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-11 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: > Thanks. I haven't got any other USB devices I can think of, other than > my main hifi (and that works better and at higher quality with coax). > > I've tried some logging, but as is usual with such tests, when one sits > down to attempt some really well

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-15 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: > I think I have managed to reduce the hiccups to a tolerable level (1 in > 3 nights listening). I looked at everything I could think of that might > be putting a load on the Touch. > > First, I made sure I was sending the least compressed flacs (0) at the >

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-19 Thread PasTim
Ralphy - Looking at the github for edi at https://github.com/ralph-irving/EnhancedDigitalOutput/tree/master/files I notice that the edo-repo.xml is for version 0.9. Could it be updated for version 0.10? I think I know how to do it, but am never quite sure what sha level to use. I like to have

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-19 Thread PasTim
ralphy wrote: > Done. Thanks very much :) LMS 7.9.2 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 18.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. 2 Touchs & EDO. LMS plugin UPnP/DLNA Bridge to MF M1 CLiC (A308CR amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Also Minimserver & Upplay to same & to upmpdcli/mpd PC

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-09 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: > OK so since output is in Flac - it is unlikeltyy to be a "simple" > network load due to PCM issue. > Touch reporting "timouts" implies - LMS is not replying or data is being > lost on the network. > IIRC If you enable player.source to INFO it will log problems which stop >

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-10-07 Thread PasTim
As I mentioned a while ago, I've been using EDO (standard kernel) and the Touch to drive my USB headphones. This works well, except it occasionally cuts out briefly, or stops all together. The headphones are stated as only supporting 24/48000 (PCM) on USB, so I have set LMS to only send

[SlimDevices: Touch] More information on Touch Display?

2018-09-21 Thread PasTim
After several years of using a laptop and web browser to control my music (mainly via a Touch to an amplifier) I've started to use the Touch itself as controller again (partly to stop myself using the laptop to surf when I should be listening!). I want to get more information onto the Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-09-12 Thread PasTim
I have a pair of modified Parrott Zik3 headphones, adapted for those with hearing problems (mainly giving separate equalization for each ear matching an audiogram) called PYOUR. Having used them for a while with my laptop (and squeezelite) I thought it would be useful to try them with the Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2018-09-13 Thread PasTim
rienm wrote: > I stil have the 0.10 version of EDO, LMS7.7.2 ; how do I update EDO to > the last version? > Can anyone explaine it to this simple user of the Touch? > > Thanks I believe 0.10 is the latest version of EDO. If it works for you there is no need for the versions modified for some

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2019-01-30 Thread PasTim
Pommes wrote: > Hi, > the maximum headphone level of Meridian Explorer 2 connected to SBT is > too low. > On raspberry Squeezelite it is too low, too. > Connected to usb on Synology the level is fine. > Connected to Mac the level is fine, too. > > Anyone who is able to help? > > Thanks If

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2019-01-30 Thread PasTim
Pommes wrote: > So how is the headphones out Level on your explorer on squeezelite? I haven't tried my Explorer (I, not II) on my Touch - I use it connected to my computer, via a hub. I was wondering whether the Touch is providing enough electrical power to the Explorer, and a hub might help.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2019-01-30 Thread PasTim
Pommes wrote: > Hi, > the maximum headphone level of Meridian Explorer 2 connected to SBT is > too low. > On raspberry Squeezelite it is too low, too. > Connected to usb on Synology the level is fine. > Connected to Mac the level is fine, too. > > Anyone who is able to help? > > Thanks Maybe

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2019-02-02 Thread PasTim
Pommes wrote: > I was able to bring the headphones volume up on Raspberry LibreELEC in > alsamixer, the level was set to -40db , I brought it to -4db. > so it does work. > But on Squeezebox Touch I can not access any alsamixer. > Anybody here who knows how to set levels of audiodevices via ssh

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2019-02-03 Thread PasTim
Pommes wrote: > Awesome, thanks a lot > Ssh into touch and type > amixer -c 1 sset 'Meridian Clock Selector' 100% > Now I have full Level on headphones out. > > If anybody knows how to save this , so it keeps the values after reboot? I've read about a file named /etc/asound.state, but I am

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2019-02-03 Thread PasTim
Pommes wrote: > Thanks for trying to help! > I was able to find the solution with help of another guy in this forum. > > > ssh root@ip > Password 1234 > cd /etc/init.d > vi rcS.local > (press the 'i' key and then type) > amixer -c 1 sset 'Meridian Clock Selector' 100% > (press the escape key,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2019-02-03 Thread PasTim
Pommes wrote: > I’m glad that you might use this work around, too. > I just simply use the volume control of LMS. > I know it is not bit perfect then, and Tidal MQA will only work with > full volume in LMS, but this is the most convenient way for me. :) LMS 7.9.2 on PC, Xubuntu 18.04, FLACs

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2020-02-14 Thread PasTim
richmaj99 wrote: > I've been using an SB Touch for years with EDO, connected via a powered > USB to an Audiolab MDAC and running LMS 7.9.2. Never had a problem. > > Then today I was fiddling with the SBT and somehow I accidentally ended > up selecting 'software update'. It updated the SBT

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2020-02-14 Thread PasTim
richmaj99 wrote: > Thanks PasTim. Yes, that's the firmware that I accidentally got upgraded > to and (having tried rolling back to no avail) I'm now back to the > latest 7.8.0 trying to get EDO to install. So probably means we can rule > out firmware as the problem, if its running

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2020-02-15 Thread PasTim
richmaj99 wrote: > Managed to work it out in the end. Posting the solution in case anyone > else comes across the same issue. > > The answer was hiding around pages 220-221 of this thread. EDO was > reinstalling but the Kernel update process wasn't happening, as > Zlartybartfast alluded to.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2020-01-03 Thread PasTim
Mr. Steve wrote: > That was going to be my next question . . . should I try SPDIF? > > Is there a consensus as to whether one sounds better than the other? Or > are they exactly the same? I'd concentrate on getting something to work perfectly first. Coax has been so for me, and I stuck with

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