Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo KALI Reclocker & Raspberry Pi DACs running as Slave or Master?

2017-09-04 Thread adamdea
Dimdim wrote: > True, but isn't that always the case with Hi-Fi? One hi-end oscillator > can easily set you back ~400€.Only if you buy it. As a matter of interest you > referred above to their being measurements which prove something. Are their measurements of the outputs of a dac (using its

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo KALI Reclocker & Raspberry Pi DACs running as Slave or Master?

2017-09-04 Thread adamdea
Dimdim wrote: > If that were the case, Ian's FIFO reclocker or Kali or Acko's reclocker > would have no reason to exist. You'd just put in a better clock. > Come this way sir with your chequebook. adamdea's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo KALI Reclocker & Raspberry Pi DACs running as Slave or Master?

2016-10-26 Thread adamdea
JackOfAll wrote: > No, it's still accepting an I2S input, and on-paper it's slave to Pi, by > which the Pi is sending BCLK and LRCK to DAC as well as DATA. But > the Sabre board local OSC and on-chip ASRC, is re-clocking it > internally, on the Sabre chip. (And if you buy into the Sabre >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo KALI Reclocker & Raspberry Pi DACs running as Slave or Master?

2016-10-26 Thread adamdea
JackOfAll wrote: > In general terms, IMHO, the Sabre design using on-chip ASRC with a > semi-decent single freq local OSC, will benefit less from Kali (or > re-clocking in general) than a PCM5xxx series design where the DAC PLL > is dependent on the MASH'd Pi BCLK. However, if you use the MCLK

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo KALI Reclocker & Raspberry Pi DACs running as Slave or Master?

2016-10-25 Thread adamdea
JackOfAll wrote: > Maybe Greg or Scott, or someone who has used the HB DAC+ Pro in master > mode without Kali, and compared to same DAC+ Pro in slave, but with > Kali, can post their impressions. > > Since Allo called me a liar, I'm not inclined to want to say anything > positive about any of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo KALI Reclocker & Raspberry Pi DACs running as Slave or Master?

2016-10-25 Thread adamdea
JackOfAll wrote: > Nail on the head. Both of the two "master" HAT boards that are > commonly available are "flawed". (And no, I'm not going to expand on > that! ;)) Perhaps someone will be able to publish some measurements demonstrating the superiority of the kali + slave solution for

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo KALI Reclocker & Raspberry Pi DACs running as Slave or Master?

2016-10-25 Thread adamdea
badboygolf16v wrote: > I'm starting this thread as a request for information from JackOfAll. I > thought it might be useful to have this information on a separate thread > that others could easily find. I suspect there may be a reasonable > amount of interest in the KALI Reclocker. > > Allo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-14 Thread adamdea
edwardthern wrote: > First off I would like the thank the PiCorePlayer team for all their > hard work for this excellent player!!! > > I am wondering if the team would entertain the idea of optimizing PiCore > for audio. > > For example the audio threads as outlined in ALSA's Low Latency howto

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How To - Build a Squeezebox Touch Replacement (Pi2)

2015-09-26 Thread adamdea
It's very kind of you to share your experience. I'm using a cubox-i at the moment but planning on having a go with a pi2 I bought recently adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Best DAC?

2015-08-01 Thread adamdea
Phil Leigh wrote: Have I piCorePlayer working on 3.5mm jack. I next a Hifiberry digi+... 1) Durio 2) IQaudio 3) Hifiberry DAC What's next? Regarda Phil I have nothing useful to contribute about pi dacs, but am delighted to see you back on the forum and have not forgotten the help

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community hardware status

2014-10-30 Thread adamdea
JohnSwenson wrote: I have tried to take some of this on myself but I just do not have the time now. Due to some personal issues and two jobs I simply do not have the time this will take to move forward. If anyone (or group) is interested in taking this on I will be glad to provide the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS debian unstable package fails to run with perl 5.20

2014-10-28 Thread adamdea
colin_e wrote: On my Debian Jessie box changing the entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/squeezecenter.list to point to the unstable branch got me LMS 7.8.1 which installed and ran first time, which is great. Thanks to everyone on this thread. Questions- - No mention of the 7.9.x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-10-07 Thread adamdea
bullitbd wrote: ...just for the record, rebooting from debian or doesn't work either (other than pressing the reset key)... it appears to be wand related - unless you don't have personally that issue? Have you tried using the serverpowercontrol plugin to reboot LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCoPlayer = Squeezelite on Microcore linux. .An embedded OS in RAM with Squeezelite

2014-09-29 Thread adamdea
JackOfAll wrote: OK, every point you make above was considered. The bottom line, this product has to hit a price point. It depends on using an off-the-shelf Pi board to do it. The compute module and a custom carrier board was looked into. It would have resulted in the retail price having to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-09-17 Thread adamdea
Triode wrote: I've had to update this script to match the latest changes to the arch distribution for this platform. Please use the latest install script if you have this platform. (Hummingboard i1 is currently my favorite low cost platform) Adrian I just thought I'd let you know

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] any issues with LMS 7.8.x or 7.9.x on Debian Wheezy (x86)?

2014-09-16 Thread adamdea
dsdreamer wrote: The following script must be run in the same directory as was used for the CPAN build script above. It depends on having a ./slimserver-vendor directory with a successfully built arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int shared object file set. Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] any issues with LMS 7.8.x or 7.9.x on Debian Wheezy (x86)?

2014-09-14 Thread adamdea
aubuti wrote: From the Squeezelite thread it looks as if your approach to getting the newer LIBC went fine. Or am I reading that wrong? I'll still consider myself lucky that you blazed the trail first ;-) Yes it did work, thanks. Mind you I am trying to repeat the exercise using Debian on a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] any issues with LMS 7.8.x or 7.9.x on Debian Wheezy (x86)?

2014-09-08 Thread adamdea
aubuti wrote: Thanks. I did the Squeeze -- Wheezy upgrade over the weekend, which I neglected to mention also involved changing out the hard drive (I wanted to install a larger drive and re-purpose the one I had been using). LMS installation was very smooth. I still need to re-install

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] any issues with LMS 7.8.x or 7.9.x on Debian Wheezy (x86)?

2014-09-08 Thread adamdea
aubuti wrote: Ah, yes, thanks. squeezelite is another one still on the to-do list. I was running squeezelite under Debian Squeeze (via the Local Player plugin) and want to set it up under Wheezy. I'll check out that newer LIBC. With Squeeze I needed to tweak permissions to access audio

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
PasTim wrote: Apologies for asking stupid questions, but do you have an audio device that is working under debian? If it does work, and if squeezeboxserver belongs to the audio group, I don't know why there is no list of devices on the local player settings page. There should be. Has

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
bpa wrote: Does squeezelite run ok from a shell prompt ? Umm I don't really know what I am doing here. I have tried opening a terminal window (and a root terminal window) and typing (variously) squeezelite, squeezelite -l start squeezelite each of which gets me the response command not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
bpa wrote: 1. Look at WebUI Settings/Information and note the full 1st Plugins folder location path (probably starts with /home and ends with Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins ) 2. In the terminal window do the following commands in red - don't miss the . on the squeezelite command and in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
ok I can see that wheezy uses GLIBC 2.13., I gather from this that changing is not all that straightforward. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10863613/how-to-upgrade-glibc-from-version-2-13-to-2-15-on-debian I can fid in the unstable debian repository (via synapic) GLIBC 2.19, but not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
bpa wrote: This means the build of squeezelite is not compatible with your version of Linux. What distro and version have you installed ? There is also a chance that the LMS support applications may also not work. sorry I missed your post. I am running Debian Wheezy Release 7.6 (wheezy)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
PasTim wrote: Do the following (I use ubuntu but I it's based on debian so I think it uses the same commands). Code: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6 When I get problems like this, googling the text often

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
i tried installing 2.19 and running squeezelite from shell, but it still says root@adamd:/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/LocalPlayer/Bin# ./squeezelite-x86-64 -l ./squeezelite-x86-64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
THANKS VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP- SQUEEZELITE IS NOW RUNNING. In the end I managed to update by enabling the unstable repository in synatpic and then following Tim's suggestion and updating LIBC from the shell using Apt. Squeezeite is now running. I'm really grateful for your help Guys.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
PasTim wrote: Well done. Since your problem was compatibility with Wheezy,It's quite possible (even probable) that adding the 'audio' group to user squeezeboxserver has no effect at all :-) I think that definitely helped with getting my music files recognised.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread adamdea
I have managed to get wma working with the play windows media file (thanks bpa). And the triode spotify plugin is working beautifully too. Thanks a million to Adrian too for this as well of course as for Squeezelite.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-03 Thread adamdea
PasTim wrote: Having installed the local player plugin, it should just run without any special scripts. What shows up in the LMS Settings, under Advanced, Local Player? Do you see a list of devices? If not, there could be user access issues. Sorry i thought I had replied to this earlier

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-03 Thread adamdea
PasTim wrote: Try adding the 'audio' group to user squeezeboxserver, as follows: Code: sudo gpasswd -a squeezeboxserver audio and check: Code: groups squeezeboxserver

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-03 Thread adamdea
sadly no dice. I have set local player to debugging in the logging menu (and set to save) and to debug in the localplayer menu. all I get in the server log is 14-09-03 17:59:00.9720] Slim::Web::HTTP::addPageFunction (2575) Backtrace: frame 0: Slim::Utils::Log::logBacktrace

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-03 Thread adamdea
PasTim wrote: Have you looked in /var/log/squeezeboxserver/localplayer.log ? On the local player settings do you now have a list of audio devices? I'm afraid I don't get a list of devices. If the log you refer to is the one you access from the advanced local player screen then it just

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-03 Thread adamdea
Triode wrote: All those errors are coming from another plugin - SrvrPowerCtrl I guess so- but squeezelite is reported as not running in the local player settings. Have I got the logging set up wrong? adamdea's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-02 Thread adamdea
I apologise for my cluelessness. I have decided to enter into the world of linux and thought I would have a go running lms under debian wheezy with arch desktop on an old intel desktop 64 bit. I have managed to install LMS which appears to be running fine and appears in the browser. That said I