gahabana wrote:
> Dear *Triode*,
> thank you so much for designing and building Squeezelite ! Have been
> using it for couple of days and it does work flawlessly :)
> Am using it with small miniITX build with Core i3 cpu and running
> Lubuntu. Had some SW issues (lowlatency kernel would not allow
> squeezeboxserver to launch squeezelite with higher priority nr lock the
> memory - works if i restart squeezeboxserver ... so have added that to
> my startup script).
>
> Anyhow , there is one annoying issue which i believe is not due to
> squeezelite (same behaviour i have with Squeezebox Touch as well as with
> mpd player) - when I play consequently 2 files and sampling frequency
> changes Benchmark DAC2 takes little bit too long (0.5 seconds) to lock
> onto new sample rate and therefore it does not play beginning of the
> song properly.
>
> E.g. if I play Norah Jones 192/24bit song after which in a playlist I
> have Macy's Gray ("Glad You're Here" from album "Big") which is regular
> 44/16bit sampling rate... 1st word is completely lost on Macy's song.
>
> I tried playing with 'crossfade' parameters just to see how squeezelite
> would behave - and unfortunately it is smart to realise that sampling
> rate's are different (and even when using upsampling) and therefore it
> does not do that.
>
> I found an ugly workaround to the problem - if i insert FLAC file with
> 5ms or even 1ms (400 samples) in between the offending songs of the
> sample rate of the following/next song (sample rate changing songs)
> Benchmark DAC2 locks quickly and i do not even hear it (no point in
> gapless playback since songs are from different albums and 1ms is hard
> to be heard) - all is GOOD !
>
> However, that is of course a pain and would be ok with static playlists
> ... but would look ugly and is workaround for playlists that don't
> change often.
>
> Is there a possibility to easily add to squeezelite ability to play
> 1-5ms of seconds of silence prior to the song that has a different
> sample rate (as a command line switch) ?
>
> I know you are busy with other projects - i have compiled squeezelite
> and quickly looked at source code, but its been 20 years since i touched
> C, but if you could give a hint on 'where' that would need to be done
> and broadly "how", I could try to do that on my own ... rather then
> having it in master build ?
>
> Thank you *Triode* in advance :D !!!
>
> To other forum followers - anyone else experiencing same problem with
> Benchmark DAC2 ? I doubt unit is faulty, but if it works for all of you
> then i know what i need to do :(
>
> Gaha
I think this would be viable to add, but I would like to understand if
this is a common problem. I'd expect squeezelite to perform the same as
squeezeplay/touch at present - so do many people have this problem?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046
_______________________________________________
unix mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
