*piCorePlayer 1.10 is ready* Hi all, I'm happy to announce a new version of piCorePlayer, which is a major improvement over previous versions.
The major improvement in this version is the support for direct connection of I2S-DACs with the raspberry though the I2S connection. It is build on cutting edge linux kernel 3.12.6 which have support for I2S-connections. That means that you will be able to let the DAC communicate directly with the raspberry. There are already a few I2S-DACs available, however at the moment piCorePlayer only support the *HiFiBerry DAC*, you can read more about 'HiFiBerry' (http://www.hifiberry.com/). This kind of connection is much better than the USB-connection, so I suspect much better results using these kind of DAC's compared with USB-based DACs So it connects to the raspberry like this ('image taken from the HiFiberry web-page' (http://www.hifiberry.com/)): '[image: https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/_/rsrc/1388849974493/home/news/hifiberry-plugged_raspberry.jpg]' (https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home/news/hifiberry-plugged_raspberry.jpg?attredirects=0) In order to support the other I2S-DACs I will need access to them, and at the moment only Daniel from 'Crazy Audio' (http://www.crazy-audio.com/) gave me access to a prototype of the HiFiBerry DAC. I have been playing with it for a few days and I really like it. It fits nicely on the Raspberry and the audio streaming from it is nice to listen to Furthermore, I have included support for more WiFi-adaptors and this time I feel confident that several of the Ralink adaptor should work - so please report your findings. Ralphy is supporting piCorePlayer by building the newest versions of Triodes squeezelite with build-in support of WMA and ALAC together with upsample support. In addition, piCorePlayer can update the squeelzelite directly from Ralphy's server. So thank you very much for that. Finally, I have almost finished building a small WEB-based configuration menu, so within a few days I hope to release a new version (where the only difference will be the inclusion of a small WEB-server to easily configure the piCorePlayer) This release has been the most difficult one to make - so I hope you will enjoy it. As always, you can get it from here: https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home/download Steen piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi (25MB in RAM). Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home and discussion: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97803-piCoPlayer-Squeezelite-on-Microcore-linux-An-embedded-OS-in-RAM-with-Squeezelite Squeezeboxserver on Voyage Linux 500 MB CF-card (read-only) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?90581-HOW-TO-install-squeezeboxserver-on-very-small-Linux-(Voyage-linux) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sbp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37237 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
