New Squeezebox Touch Mod

[dynaudiorules]

I just wanted to share a recent mod I started using on my Touch.

It came from the same set of mods I use on my Linux/Music Player Daemon machine.

The Mod does three things.

increase audio threads priority
prevent audio threads from sharing interrupt lines
adjust interrupts/processes according to their use

An outline can be found
https://sites.google.com/site/comput...x-touch-tweaks

Its pretty simple to do, give it a try and let me know what you think.

Happy Listening.
Dynobot

P.S. This mod is done in conjunction with Soundchecks mod with the buffer set to 3600.

[avr300]

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[Phil Leigh]

Link broken

https://sites.google.com/site/comput...x-touch-tweaks

[dynaudiorules]

https://sites.google.com/site/comput...x-touch-tweaks

[kiat]

Hi

Looking at the changes you are making I think it make sense

I'll give it a try

thanks!!

I just wanted to share a recent mod I started using on my Touch.

It came from the same set of mods I use on my Linux/Music Player Daemon machine.

The Mod does three things.

increase audio threads priority
prevent audio threads from sharing interrupt lines
adjust interrupts/processes according to their use

An outline can be found
https://sites.google.com/site/comput...x-touch-tweaks

Its pretty simple to do, give it a try and let me know what you think.

Happy Listening.
Dynobot

P.S. This mod is done in conjunction with Soundchecks mod with the buffer set to 3600.

[dynaudiorules]

Hi Kiat,

Please post your impressions.

Thanks!

[sckramer]

Does this overlap soundcheck's mods? Maybe the same ideas are in soundcheck's latest mods...?

[dynaudiorules]

No overlap.

1) I took a look at Soundchecks mods to see exactly what they were doing before I decided to implement these mods.

2) This command [ps -eLo pid,cls,rtprio,pri,nice,cmd | grep -i "irq"] will tell you exactly what priorities the audio threads etc. are at, none were affected with Soundchecks Level 2 mods.

3) Repeating the above command after my mod will clearly show the new priority settings.

[rgro]

Hi Dynaudiorules,

I'm really interested in trying this out but I'm a total Linux newb....
I'm not 100% clear about what I'm supposed to do.....

What I have done is opened WinScp, logged in, navigated to the proper file and installed the 5 yellow highlighted lines of code, and rebooted the Touch. So far so good.

What I don't understand is what, if anything else, I'm supposed to do. I've got Soundcheck's mods installed and so the WLAN is already disabled. Do I also need to go in and comment out the lines having to do with Samba? If so, how does one "comment out" something?? If I have to go back in and comment this out, do I also need to reinstall those previously installed 5 lines of code?

Is all the stuff under "Detailed information about the mod..." just informational or is there other stuff in there that needs to be done?

Finally, I have the buffer size set (via Soundcheck's mod) to 4000 because I was getting crackle at 3600. How much, if any, does this adversely affect your mods?

Sorry for all the questions, but I really am a complete novice at this.
Thanks for any help and, especially, thanks for your work should this turn out to improve the sound quality of the Touch.

[castalla]

'What I have done is opened WinScp, logged in, navigated to the proper file and installed the 5 yellow highlighted lines of code, and rebooted the Touch. So far so good.'
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That's really all you need to do.

The other section is just showing how to get more detail about the system and section 3. installs the mods on a one-off basis.

Editing the file as you did makes the changes permanent.

Do you notice any difference in sound output?