PasTim wrote: > Hi Marco, > > All my files are stereo (a few mono) flacs, from 16/44100 to 24/192000. > > For squeezelite-R2 I mostly use a Meridian Explorer DAC, and started it > using options -r 192000 -u hLE. The DAC indicates it's getting a > 24/192000 feed - whether FLAC or PCM I don't know for sure, but I assume > flac when not running C-3PO. Using C-3PO I got crackling and all sorts, > even on 16/44100 tracks, whatever settings I tried. Today I tried > starting squeezelite using -u vHX and it seems to be working much better > with C-3PO. Is it possible that the squeezelite-R2 command line options > need to match C-3PO in some fashion?.
Be aware that you should avoid to resample both on player and on server, using C-3PO, you should NOT use -u options launching squeezelite anymore. Did you restarted the DAC after enabling C-3PO (and so changing the output fomat)? that's probably why today, after a restart, things went better. Assuming you want to play everything at 192KHz/24bit, try this: GENERAL SETTINGS: Supported formats: be sure to select AT LEAST Flac. Resample "Always" Target sample rate "Max supported" Output format "WAV" bit-depth 24 (3). Please leave all the others at default value. PLAYER SETTINGS: Select the Meridian Explorer DAC attached Squeezelite-R2 player, then set: Supported Sample Rates: be sure 192KHz is the maximum value checked for the player, you could add ANY lower value but NOT higher, is important. Enable Transcoding and Resampling for FLAC. Live the others at Default values at the moment. Please check the "use general settings" box and apply changes. SQUEEZELITE-R2 COMMAND LINE: here a sample and safe command line, but You could try to adjust buffers (-b) if still get pop and clicks. Squeezelite-R2 -o (what you normally use) -a 100:3:24:1 -b 8192:8192 -r 192000:192000 Pleas dont add -u option, the server is going to upsample to 192000Hz, 24 bit and decode to WAV. Please restart the DAC and Squeezelite with the new command line and try to play a flac 44100/16 or 192000/24 file, you should see squeezelite rreceive WAV 192KHz/24bit in both case. Forgot tio ask: are you using a wired network, correct? If not, be aware that where flac 44.1/16 is using less than 1 Mb/s, Wav 192/24 is at least 5 times the traffic, so be sure you have enougth bandwidth. PasTim wrote: > > Several player parameters never seem to stick. So, for instance, no > matter what I set 'Quality' to it always seems to be reset to 'High' for > this player. The same is true for the 'Resample' parameter. Why would > that be?. Not sure to well understand. Do you mean that setting quality in the general settings (or in the player setting after uncheking the use general setting box) is not working? In that case are you sure to always 'apply' changes before leave the page? Or you meant you don't see changes reflected to squeezelite? In that case is correct, as said before, you should NOT use -u option in squeezelite anymore. Could you please better elaborate? PasTim wrote: > > For squeeze2upnp I use 2 renderers. One will take flac or pcm to > 24/192000, but I have no upsampling set, just conversion to pcm (no wav > header) so the server does the conversion work. For the other it seems > to prefer wav (ie pcm plus with a proper wav header) or flac, up to > 24/96000. I got neither device to work at all with C-3PO. Assuming your general settings are as explained before, to strictly archive what you describe you have to: a. select PLAYER ONE and: Supported Sample Rates: be sure 192KHz is the only value checked. Enable Transcoding for FLAC. Disble Resampling for FLAC. Live the others at Default values at the moment. Please check the "use general settings" box and apply changes. This way ONLY 192Khz flac files will be converted to WAV (there is no support for raw PCM in LMS) and sent to Squeezelite, files with other samplerate will be refused (seems to me is to strict, if you want to allow any samplerate decode and playback but not resampling till 192KHz, check as supported all samplerates starting from 44100 to 192Khz). b. select PLAYER TWO and: Supported Sample Rates: check ALL frequencies from 44100 to 96000, be sure nothing higher. Enable Transcoding for FLAC. Enable Resampling for FLAC. Live the others at Default values at the moment. Please check the "use general settings" box and apply changes. PasTim wrote: > > I probably don't really need this plugin Is not clear to me how you today arrange to decode and upsamlìple, if in LMS using custom-convert.conf file, you could find C-3PO usefull just becouse is easier to use, if by the playrs, no, you don't need C-3PO at all. C-3PO is born to perform decode and upsampling SERVER SIDE, in order to need and use really low power by the client. PasTim wrote: > > but if you want me to test things for your and other's benefits I'll > happily do so. Tester are always welcome, but use of C-3PO make sense only in place of custom-convert.conf file and "File Type" conversion settings on LMS. If you are using them now, You'll probably find C-3PO easier and valuable, if not you'll probably fint it difficult and useless, just becouse you don't know how boring is using the others. Hope is more clear now, please try the settings I've posed, then please report if they works for you or not, or - if I misandestood - please post here your actual custom-convert.conf file and I'll try to replicate it in C-3PO settings. Marco ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105309
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