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

2014-04-15 Thread Krisbee
robinbowes wrote: Thanks Triode - I'm assuming you meant M2 not MD? Here's the output with M2: ./squeezelite-x86-64 -n hero -s lms.robinbowes.com -o hw:CARD=M2,DEV=0 -a ::16:0 -d output=debug [20:54:02.466949] output_init_alsa:637 init output [20:54:02.467087] output_init_alsa:660

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread JohnSwenson
kesey wrote: Sounds great John. Is there a timeline at this time for production of CSP1? best regards, kesey The hardware design has been ready to go for quite a few months. Currently we are waiting for the driver to be available. I built a couple test boards a while back, I want to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread bakker_be
JohnSwenson wrote: The hardware design has been ready to go for quite a few months. Currently we are waiting for the driver to be available. I built a couple test boards a while back, I want to make sure the driver works with these before having some of the real things made. I don't to find

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

2014-04-15 Thread Soli
Hi Triode. Compiled version 1.6 myself. Got some problems playing aiff files. The files in question are 24-192, the alac equivalent files plays perfectly. The aiff files is correctly identified as 24-192 and the USB dac also displays this. But the sound is more or less something inbetween pink

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2014-04-15 Thread Krisbee
Krisbee wrote: I'd like to turn an old laptop into a squeezbox appliance, just switch it on and it boots to a jivelite interface. I'd like to have keyboard or mouse control and hopefully IR remote control via FLIRC or perhaps one of those MCE handsets with USB dongles mentioned elsewhere.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2014-04-15 Thread Krisbee
davidismynaim wrote: I am a keen squeezebox user. In the main room, I have a transporter hidden away in a cupboard and a nice large HD tv on the wall. I would like to set up a music display/control, where my wife and I can control music selection via the std remote (well a mapped version of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread Rob P
Gandhi wrote: Would you say that the WB responds quickly with this load, for example when seeking or switching tracks in LMS? Gandhi, The responsiveness of WB at 96kHz/24bit FFT filter length 32768 samples is good. Changing tracks is reasonably fast. First track starts after ~ 2s

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread kesey
:DJohnSwenson wrote: The hardware design has been ready to go for quite a few months. Currently we are waiting for the driver to be available. I built a couple test boards a while back, I want to make sure the driver works with these before having some of the real things made. I don't to

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

2014-04-15 Thread Triode
Soli wrote: Hi Triode. Compiled version 1.6 myself. Got some problems playing aiff files. The files in question are 24-192, the alac equivalent files plays perfectly. The aiff files is correctly identified as 24-192 and the USB dac also displays this. But the sound is more or less

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread Gandhi
JohnSwenson wrote: The DAC chip in the CSP hardware will turn off its builtin reconstruction filter when fed with 352.8 or 384. The way we plan on doing this for CSP is to use the libsoxr library which is included in squeezelite. I have come up with a set of libsoxr parameters which sound

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread Gandhi
Rob P wrote: Gandhi, The responsiveness of WB at 96kHz/24bit FFT filter length 32768 samples is good. Changing tracks is reasonably fast. First track starts after ~ 2s ... At 192KHz/24bit FFT filter length 65536 samples you can feel that changing tracks is slightly slower. First track

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread JohnSwenson
Gandhi wrote: That's interesting, John. I don't think that I've ever heard a DAC without a reconstruction filter. Is there a mechanism somewhere for dealing with the ultrasonic noise, which otherwise usually is removed with an LP filter? Do you have any idea how much processing power that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread Gandhi
JohnSwenson wrote: The filtering is done in the upsampling, so it is not needed in the DAC chip, that way you bypass the not so great sounding filter built in to the chip. There is a simple analog RC filter at the output of the DAC to handle the really high frequency stuff generated by the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread Rob P
**Gandhi wrote: Rob P, Thank you very much for testing. So far, my interpretation is that performance seems good enough. It takes a while to start the first track, though. Not a problem in itself, but I guess this also happens when one switches between tracks that are not on the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread Gandhi
Rob P wrote: SEEK/PROGRESS slider works as it should! There is on check box in LMS settings / Advanced / BruteFIR Room Correction - Enable Loudness for players _It_MUST_be_UNCHECKED_ in order to progess/seek slider work properly when playing track convolved with BrutefirDRC !!! Seek

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

2014-04-15 Thread robinbowes
I removed the pulseaudio plugin as you suggested. Still no sound from squeezelite. :( I have these output devices available: Output devices: null - Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=Intel - HDA Intel, ALC888

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

2014-04-15 Thread Grumpy Bob
I have a piCorePlayer with HiFiBerry. I was a soldering newbie, and had no difficulty in assembling it. I bought the version with unsoldered RCA sockets, which I attached to the board via wires. I had a cheap plastic case for the Pi, and the whole shebang fitted in with a few minor modifications