Squeezeplay plays up to 192k

[giulio]

You are welcome PasTim!

Could you please provide a link to the discussion on bypassing pulseaudio by means of the method you have discussed?

TIA
giulio

[PasTim]

You are welcome PasTim!

Could you please provide a link to the discussion on bypassing pulseaudio by means of the method you have discussed?

TIA
giulio

It's at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...sa.conf&page=6 (Apologies - I don't know how to create a link to an individual post).

[ElEsido]

Hi All

Giulio, great work! Would it be possible for you to compile a version that runs on ARM machines (Dockstar, Goflex; squeezeplay in particular)? Would it be possible to compile it so that it runs headlessly without the need for an x-server or xvfb?

Regards
ElEsido

[PasTim]

After a long struggle I have been able to build a version of Squeezeplay that plays files up to 192k sampling rates. You can download my tarball from http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/gfella/sq...ueezeplay.html and untar into a directory /opt/squeezeplay

It works on ubuntu and voyage, so I expect it to work on most flavours of Debian.

To build from source instead: add the sampling rates 176400 and 192000 to the list of sampling rates in the file decode_pcm.c in the folder squeezeplay/src/squeezeplay/src/audio/decode from the source tarball.
Building from sources requires fixing a couple of bugs (read about them on John Well's page here http://www.jfwhome.com/2009/11/22/co...-ubuntu-amd64/ Thanks John!)

You also need to make sure that the server can play up to 192K files.

For this, you have to patch the LogitechMediaserver software by applying Lauret's 192khz.patch (available at https://github.com/terual/slimpy_ to the file Squeezebox2.pm (the latter is in the folder /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Player/ on my ubuntu install). Thanks Lauret!

Finally to make sure a 24 bit file is not truncated to 16 bit follow Kipeta's (Thanks Kipeta!) recipe

"in Linux you can choose the audio device and other parameters through setting file:
~/.squeezeplay/userpath/settings/DesktopJive.lua

I have following content in it:
settings = {mac="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx",uuid="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x"",alsaSampleSize=24,alsaPlaybackDevice="plugh w:0 ,0",alsaPlaybackBufferTime=50000,alsaPlaybackPerio dCount=3} "

I am grateful to the community for the useful info.

This worked for me up until now. I now have a weird problem.

For several reasons I had to re-install my ubuntu system as a true dual-boot OS on my PC (previously it was a installed within the windows file system). This is 12.04, 64 bit.

Installing the tarball did not go as smoothly as before. First it claimed it could not find libjpeg.so.62. synaptic was no help, since it seemed to be already installed, so I downloaded it again from http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i...peg62/download and reinstalled it. That problem went away.

I then struggled to find a way to add a startup shortcut to my desktop, or a menu, or anywhere.... ubuntu 12.04 has been cut back to remove a lot of things which I used first time round in 11.04 (and also under Debian). I eventually solved this - another story.

I did the no pulseaudio fixes, and set the sound devices and got squeezeplay to start cleanly, except.....

When ssqueezeplay starts it quotes a pin number at me, and asks me to enter it a jive.squeezenetwork.com. There is no way to proceed without doing this. Starting squeezeplay from a terminal so I can see what is wrong, it says the squeezeplay is regeistered to another account:

20120518 22:38:15.162 WARN   net.comet - Comet.lua:888 Comet {mysqueezebox.com}: _response, /1X6612add31542f581b3c34c089c2e4eb9X0016176e1066X0X1337380694X02b33af2/slim/request id=3 failed: This player is already linked to another SqueezeNetwork account.

What's this all about? I have no idea what is happening. I used to be able to install this tarball and connect to my SB (now a Vortexbox) and to my SB account, but it now gives me no chance to do this.

[PasTim]

Problem solved. I have a (simple) linux firewall installed. This prevents incoming tcp/udp. I guess I didn't install or set this up this previously.

Permitting incoming calls from my Vortexbox has fixed the problem, but the error message I was getting was unhelpful to say the least!

[giulio]

Hi All

Giulio, great work! Would it be possible for you to compile a version that runs on ARM machines (Dockstar, Goflex; squeezeplay in particular)? Would it be possible to compile it so that it runs headlessly without the need for an x-server or xvfb?

Regards
ElEsido

I am not very knowledgeable in C. I run a headless (Alix) machine myself. If I knew how to eliminate all the x-server crap, I would have done it already I am afraid.

As for ARM machines, I do not have...

g

[giulio]

This worked for me up until now. I now have a weird problem.

For several reasons I had to re-install my ubuntu system as a true dual-boot OS on my PC (previously it was a installed within the windows file system). This is 12.04, 64 bit.

Installing the tarball did not go as smoothly as before. First it claimed it could not find libjpeg.so.62. synaptic was no help, since it seemed to be already installed, so I downloaded it again from http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i...peg62/download and reinstalled it. That problem went away.

I got the same problem when I tried to install it on my work PC running ubuntu 12.04 64 bit and gave up. I will try your solution.

Thanks
Giulio

[ElEsido]

I am not very knowledgeable in C. I run a headless (Alix) machine myself. If I knew how to eliminate all the x-server crap, I would have done it already I am afraid.

As for ARM machines, I do not have...

g

In case you know, would you be so kind to post a small howto on starting squeezeplay with xvfb?

[foxesden]

In case you know, would you be so kind to post a small howto on starting squeezeplay with xvfb?

Hi I posted some instructions on the vortexbox forum

see

I am new here so can't post the url but it is under vortexbox player ; pleased with squeezeplay page 2 onwards

[foxesden]

http://vortexbox.org/threads/3541-Ve...eezePlay/page2