fourwed wrote: > Another user, Henke, tried picoplayer and he suggested the following > settings. > > http://www.head-fi.org/t/674236/squeezebox-touch-replacement-raspberry-pi-picoplayer#post_9678115 > > It is special for his ALSA device settings and "-r" settings, please > take a look and it might work for your USB DAC.
Thank you for that- my scratchiness seems to be gone with the HiFiMeDiy Sabre DAC & PiCore 1.0.6. I am only playing 16/44 files but they work much better with these settings. For anyone who wants to know the settings suggested by Henke, here they are: > I'm using the picoreplayer, it's whats worked best for me so far. And > like I said - playing a locally stored file on the Pi works better than > using squeezelite but since I'm using Squeezebox, this is the > alternative I'd like to pursue. > > Anyways - the following settings works best for me. I've added a short > explanation of the setting atleast what I can understand of it. I could > be very wrong. > > -a 160::16:1 : Sets buffer size to 160, force 16bit and uses memory > mapped files (probably a good thing) > -o hw:0,0 : I've seen that instead of using what picoreplayer suggests > as output device, this seems to let squeezelite player talk more > directly to the DAC. If I use what squeezelite identifies as my DAC, > sysdefault:CARD=AudioAsynchr, I cannot play 176.4 files. To list these > devices, I use aplay -l in the terminal, since hw:0,0 might be something > else on your setup > -r 192000 : this seems to be necessary for me to be able to play files > with higher bitrates than 96000. It just tells squeezelite what the max > rate is. > > Thus, if you'd want to use these setting you would > > Login to you Raspberry pi > type picoreplayer and then hit enter > choose option 5 (I'm using version 1.05 so this might be something > different for you) > type -a 160::16:1 -o hw:0,0 -r 192000 then hit enter > choose option 6 to restart squeezelite > > With a little luck, you now hear music. If not, or if you do, test a few > other settings and see what works best for you. > > Good luck! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hoffsta's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=60824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
