I found an Intel Core 2 and compatible motherboard with 2GB RAM in the
boneyard. I loaded Vortexbox 2.2 on a 64 GB SSD and installed
Squeezelite 0.9beta11 Linux ALSA Intel 32 bit. Last night I connected
this via i2s to my custom built TPA Buffalo Sabre DAC and streamed
24/352.4. I also tried lower sample rate content and confirmed all
sample rates were changing as expected from command line. I had to add
-b 256:256 to avoid drop outs. Any recommendations on what the value
should be so it loads all the content into RAM? I can increase the ram
to 4GB if needed.

This is my start command from the Squeezelite configuration file:
OPTIONS="-b 256:256 -r 384000 -n SqueezeLiteVB -o hw:1,0 -f
/var/log/squeezelite/squeezelite.log"

Now for some DSD fun:) LMS does not support DSD, but you can trick it
into submission. I downloaded some DSD files from 2L site and encoded
them into DoP with an APP from the XMOS website. This encapsulates the
encoded DSD2DoP file in a WAV container that LMS can play. My USB
interface then receives the DoP encoded WAV file and decodes it back to
bit perfect native DSD for playback on my DAC. On first try no sound. My
bad...I had the volume at 50% and it needs to be 100% so I raised it and
music played. As a side note...this confirms that 100% volume is bit
perfect or this scheme would not have worked. BTW DSD playback is
incredible, but what is missing for this to be really useful is that LMS
support DSD...any thoughts.

Jesus R


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