vortecjr wrote: > 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. The resulting WAV file > contains the encapsulated DSD/DoP data and allow LMS to play it. 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 on adding support for DSD in LMS? > > Jesus R
You can also test for bit perfectness with an AC3 or DTS stream . You could encode the wav file to a flac file it wont compress much but you get better suport for tags and embedded cover art etc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
