Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread drmatt
Was my post not patronising or self important enough? I've been practising too.. :) "Welcoming"? I don't think so. People can't share opinions without being beaten down or challenged to prove it with a double blind test every five seconds. Reality is most people don't care that much.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread Apesbrain
drmatt wrote: > I think what the honourable gentlemen are attempting to get across to > you, in their usual patronising self important way, blah, blah, blah... Before you go placing yourself above the rest of us, consider that this kind of thread is for long-term members nothing if not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > Yes, hifi really is a silly hobby that has no impact on what happens to > the world, but it is also not rocket science, so there is no reason to > entertain superstition and pseudoscience. Fair enough to state one time but there's no need to keep reiterating as it just goes

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread Julf
drmatt wrote: > Personally I am ambivalent about this. I don't much care if people want > to buy esoterica that offers whatever improved X or Y or in fact nothing > at all but a sense of style, or who want to tweak all day long. No one > got hurt, no one went broke, and worst case scenario if

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread Julf
drmatt wrote: > Reality is most people don't care that much. Most people don't care about reality that much. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread drmatt
edwardthern wrote: > sudo chrt -f -p 99 $(pidof ksoftirqd/0) > sudo chrt -f -p 99 $(pidof ksoftirqd/1) > sudo chrt -f -p 99 $(pidof ksoftirqd/2) > sudo chrt -f -p 99 $(pidof ksoftirqd/3) I meant to add before that this increases the priority of all the interrupt processing on your system, not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > Most people don't care about reality that much. Reality includes crap like Trump and Brexit. I'm quite happy with my own brand of insanity instead.. :) drmatt's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and Adafruit Si4713 (FM transmitter)?

2016-10-21 Thread Greg Erskine
hi gestein, Aren't most radio stations available over the internet, hence already available via LMS? There is a pCP web page for extensions, from the [Main Page] in [Advanced] mode > [Extensions]. I2C is already loaded by default in /mnt/mmblk0p1/config.txt ($ m1; c1; vicfg) Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread Mnyb
All this for sugesting that you should only focus your effort in diffrences that actually exist ? wheter we can "hear things" is not actually always relevent. The human phsycke is actually very sugestible you can hear all sorts of things all the time with sigthed testing . If the systems

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread Julf
Pascal Hibon wrote: > Careful not to forget the audiophile grade power cables to power the > switches, modems, etc ! And I guess it all has to run off batteries. I still haven't found sub-power stations with linear regulators. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and Adafruit Si4713 (FM transmitter)?

2016-10-21 Thread gestein
I see. Thanks. So I am on the right way ;-) Is there a special/common place to put these files? For installation of the missing python classes, I have to do: tce-load -wi python-RPi.GPIO.tcz Correct? There is a hint at the developers homepage, that the I2C has to be enabled. How to do this?

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread drmatt
I think what the honourable gentlemen are attempting to get across to you, in their usual patronising self important way, is that science does indeed show that people are very very bad at accurately and consistently judging sound. In all aspects of human senses there is an element of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread edwardthern
drmatt wrote: > No, aggressive and persistently patronising remarks means they d o n ' > t c o m e r o u n d h e r e n o m o r e , truth or otherwise. > > Not that this thread is that bad, really.. That was my plan.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread Julf
edwardthern wrote: > Yeah you're right, I wouldn't call the folks here Audiophile's. Thank you - I think most of us take that as a compliment. > Better to let people know who can actually hear a difference. Indeed. I recommend 'Computer Audiophile' (http://www.computeraudiophile.com/forum/),

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread Julf
drmatt wrote: > I would be very surprised if the chrt tweaks documented at the beginning > of this thread had any effect to playback at all. Bits is bits, and > short of having an actual buffer underrun on playback almost nothing > else is likely to be audible. I wish there was a way to add a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread edwardthern
Julf wrote: > Thank you - I think most of us take that as a compliment. > > > > Indeed. I recommend 'Computer Audiophile' > (http://www.computeraudiophile.com/forum/), they are much more into the > placebophile lifestyle, and they could use more eyeballs for advertising > and sponsorship

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > (not that there are many newcomers these days). No, aggressive and persistently patronising remarks means they don't come round here no more, truth or otherwise. drmatt's Profile:

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

2016-10-21 Thread bernid
Hi, I use Beagle Bone Black ARM computer + Debian Wheezy and 4.5.0 kernel. I've just copied newest 'squeezelite-1.8.5-809-armv6hf.tar.gz' binary on my computer from Ralphy. Unfortunately when I start squeezelite I receive message: Code: root@botic:/opt# squeezelite

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer 3.02 tweaks

2016-10-21 Thread JackOfAll
edwardthern wrote: > Let you guys go back to listening to tin cans and strings. > You've seen a picture of my high-end audiophool system! ;) JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View