One of my local radio stations dropped the sample rate in their stream to 22.05 kHz. My squeezelite install cannot play this stream. However the stream plays on Windows with Squeezelite-X which uses squeezelite as the player. The stream also plays on Linux Mint on a PC using VLC and the same USB DAC.
My system consists of PogoPlug players running Debian Wheezy and squeezelite playing through inexpensive USB DACs. I've been running Squeezelite 1.6.4 completely trouble-free for 5 years or so. It seems I must "upsample" the 22.05 kHz stream to 44.1 kHz that the DACs can handle. This seems to happen automatically with Windows or Linux Mint on a PC. I previously posted in the LMS thread where bpa noted that alsa should be able to upsample. He suggested using the hwplug: device for squeezelite output; only one of my DACs reports this device. Here is what I have done: updated squeezelite to 1.9.5 armel binary selected the hwpug: device for output (-o etc) - result 22.05 kHz stream now plays, but with crackling and distortion, similar crackling and distortion on 44.1 kHz streams forced 16 bit alsa and no MMAP with the -a parameter: -a 40::16:0 - result crackling and distortion remains on 22.05 kHz stream, 44.1 kHz are better but not as good as when using a non hwplug: device, i.e., front:CARD=... Some research indicates that I should have alsa-plugins installed; dpkg -l thinks I do not. Is this needed? Is the Pogoplug underpowered for upsampling? squeezelite is using 5% CPU playing a 44.1 kHz stream. Need help. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mikeh49's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
