Linux alternative to SqueezePlay?

[brjhaverkamp]

Hello Lauret,

Does your solution mean you disable the flac support?
Or is something else happening?
I will look (when at home) what xxx-dev packages I have installed. Maybe that will shed some light on the issue.
BTW, I'm on ubuntu 11.10. What distro do you use?

Also I have solved the screen refresh problem. Or at least it solved itself.
Turned out that after building the new package, I started build/linux/bin/squeezeplay.sh But this pointed at my old installed squeezeplay. It is better to edit that one, or startup build/linux/bin/jive. Much nicer.

Bert

[lauret]

Hello Lauret,

Does your solution mean you disable the flac support?
Or is something else happening?
I will look (when at home) what xxx-dev packages I have installed. Maybe that will shed some light on the issue.
BTW, I'm on ubuntu 11.10. What distro do you use?

Also I have solved the screen refresh problem. Or at least it solved itself.
Turned out that after building the new package, I started build/linux/bin/squeezeplay.sh But this pointed at my old installed squeezeplay. It is better to edit that one, or startup build/linux/bin/jive. Much nicer.

Bert

What I did what uncommenting a rule in the makefile, so that the encoder bits also get compiled. This solved the 'undefined reference to `FLAC__stream_encoder....' errors (see previous posts). I would guess the encoder isn't used, so enabling it doesn't do any harm.

[brjhaverkamp]

Ha, I missed the "un" in uncomment :-)

In my case the line is still commented, but I have libflac-dev and libflac++-dev installed. Maybe that is related.

Bert

[lauret]

Ha, I missed the "un" in uncomment :-)

In my case the line is still commented, but I have libflac-dev and libflac++-dev installed. Maybe that is related.

Bert

Another way was to remove libsndfile, but that did also remove pulseaudio...

[dadgel]

Ubuntu 11.10 also. Have compiled 7.7 from source.

I had to make the following changes:
- luaprofile change as listed on the jfwhome page.
- New port audio
- Then compiled with GCC 4.4 to overcome "movq" issue.

This got me a working build, which looks great.

However I have no sound. Which is sort of important.

In the logs I get:
20111206 08:44:41.142 ERROR audio.output - decode_alsa_fork:178 jive_alsa failed to start

If I try to stay jive_alsa manually, like this:
./jive_alsa -d default -b 30000 -p 3 -s 16 -f 1

Then I get:
ALSA lib conf.c:3312snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

I can find this library with locate, but not with ldconfig. So I've added it to the ldconfig search path and rerun ldconfig. Now it can find the library.

If I run jive_alsa manually now, I get:
jive_alsa[8948]: segfault at 2f46 ip 00002f46 sp bfb11a3c error 14 in jive_alsa[8048000+a000]

Anyone got any ideas? It feels like I'm very close, but I don't know where to take it from here. A lot of discussion points to removing PulseAudio, but that's not an option for me.

brjhaverkamp: Are you getting sound with your build?

[brjhaverkamp]

No, I'm as close as you are.
Using Gcc 4.6 though. For that I removed -Werror

I plan to see if updating portaudio and other libraries in the code help.
But that's for the weekend most likely.

Bert

[agillis]

Hi all, been offline for a while and quite a bit has been added in my absence.
@simonl: The beauty of Sqeezeplay is it allows you to control the library from any computer and play your files either localy on the computer itself or through any connected squeezebox devices. That functionality alone makes it a highly desireable piece of soiftware in my house :-)

As far as getting it working goes.. I tried getting the windows version running in wine but failed miserably. I've never used wine before, so am no expert, but it all seemed to install corectly but Inoithing happens when I try to run Squeezeplay (absolutely nothing).
I tried de-installing squuezeplay and wine with the idea of trying again but don't seem to be able to deinstall it. I may resort to re installing Mint from scratch.

At least the Linux versions are back up in the nightly builds now :-), even if theyt don't quite work :-(
Stiil, one step at a time eh ;-)

Seems like you could do the same thing with squeezeslave and a web browser. Plus the web interface is easier to use and does more then the squeezeplay interface.

[lauret]

Seems like you could do the same thing with squeezeslave and a web browser. Plus the web interface is easier to use and does more then the squeezeplay interface.

But without the 44.1kHz/16-bit limitation...

[cliver]

Seems like you could do the same thing with squeezeslave and a web browser. Plus the web interface is easier to use and does more then the squeezeplay interface.

Funnily enough that's just been suggested on the vortexbox forum.
Think I'll give it a go. Thanks for the suggestion.

[cliver]

Squeezeslave is a player only which runs on Debian, and behaves like another connected squeezebox device. You can use the web interface to squeezebox server to control it (and any other devices you have).

I found it much easier to get working than squeezeplay - maybe it will suit your needs? (I tried it on Ubuntu rather than Mint).

I think squeezeslave may be my answer.
However, I have just tried to compile and install squeezeslave following the wiki at http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...d_instructions.
I didn't get any obvious errors but the wiki says the executable should be in /bin
But in my case I find it in /proc/8782/cwd/bin
I can't seem to run it from here (nothing happens).
Any idea what I have done wrong?

Update: Tried installing from downloaded tarball but there is no makefile??

Can someone explain the best way to install squeezeslave please? I'm confused now.