Squeezeplay plays up to 192k

[SlimChances]

Some Time ago I managed to compile Sqeezeplay on my old Ubuntu 10.10 machine and get it working but when I put together a new computer and loaded 12.04 Ubuntu on it I found the various instructions at loading Squeezeplay confusing or out of date. However I am not a programmer and struggle with computer complexities.
I found however that Squeezeplay.exe will run nicely under WINE and is a very easy install. I doubt it will play high def audio but I am able to play back flac files and that in my opinion is good enough for my computer monitor speakers. If you are in the same boat and do not understand how to install Squeezeplay I recommend installing WINE(which is in the Software Center of Ubuntu or http://www.winehq.org/) and then downloading Squeezeplay (http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nig...ex.php?ver=7.7) and running under WINE

I did not mean to highjack this thread as I'm a little off topic, but not everyone will understand how to install Squeezeplay under Linux

[skibler]

Just wanted to say that the version in the first post works great for me in Fedora 17 x64. I had to specify the correct device in the DesktopJive.lua file before there was any audio output.

I threw together a simple desktop file so gnome has a launcher for it:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=SqueezePlay
Comment=SqueezePlay Squeezebox Controller
Exec=squeezeplay
Terminal=false
NoDisplay=false
Categories=GTK;GNOME;AudioVideo;Player;Audio;
StartupNotify=true
Icon=/home/patrick/Junk/squeezeplay.png

The icon I used is the big fat one here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...Controller_App .

[skibler]

Has anyone made squeezeplay work with pulseaudio?

Squeezeplay outputs audio fine, but it is hijacking the audio device for itself. Using padsp doesn't seem to make any difference.

[Julf]

Trying squeezeplay (both 7.6 and 7.7) on ubuntu 10.10, the squeezeplay display is garbled. The console gives a bunch of these error messages:

20120814 13:25:00.440 WARN squeezeplay.ui.draw - _load_image:207 Error loading tile image /opt/squeezeplay/share/jive/applets/WQVGAsmallSkin/images/Icons/icon_nplay_button_tb.png: Unsupported image format

[MyNaim]

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 installing xvfb on your headless computer and change in squeezeplay.sh './jive' to 'xvfb-run /jive'
I have several headless computers running this way

[PasTim]

Trying squeezeplay (both 7.6 and 7.7) on ubuntu 10.10, the squeezeplay display is garbled. The console gives a bunch of these error messages:

20120814 13:25:00.440 WARN squeezeplay.ui.draw - _load_image:207 Error loading tile image /opt/squeezeplay/share/jive/applets/WQVGAsmallSkin/images/Icons/icon_nplay_button_tb.png: Unsupported image format

Try the version referenced in the first post of this thread. Several people have reported it fixes this problem - it did for me on ubuntu 12.04.

[PasTim]

Has anyone made squeezeplay work with pulseaudio?

Squeezeplay outputs audio fine, but it is hijacking the audio device for itself. Using padsp doesn't seem to make any difference.

I have tried and failed several times - I gave up. I therefore altered the squeezeplay.sh to use a different alsa configuration avoiding pulse altogether - see earlier posts on this thread.

[valdemar]

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.

Hi,

I installed your tarball on latest Voyage (0.9) and get this when running Squeezeplay:

root@voyage:/# /opt/squeezeplay/bin/squeezeplay.sh
Squeezeplay 7.7.2 r9598M
20130104 13:32:28.513 INFO squeezeplay - JiveMain.lua:265 SqueezePlay version 7.7.2 r9598M
20130104 13:32:28.535 ERROR squeezeplay.ui.draw - jiveL_initSDL:174 SDL_Init(V|T|A): No available video device

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Valdemar

[PasTim]

If you can do without the GUI (using the web interface instead) you might want to try squeezelite - see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ux-(alsa-only)

[valdemar]

If you can do without the GUI (using the web interface instead) you might want to try squeezelite - see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ux-(alsa-only)

Thanks much, PasTim. It works right out the box. Amazing! This is exactly, what I need. Unfortunately it sample rate converts all files, which for me is not acceptable. Should I ask about that in a different thread or would you know how to secure pass through of original sample rate?

- Valdemar