Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

[Triode]

Hi Triode
With default values my Hifimedia Sabre DAC is playing great. A very clean sound.
The issue is that with default values 24b96K files are playing only in 16b48K . As reported earlier by by hagensieker.
When I do cat during playing "cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params" I get the following values:
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S16_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 48000 (48000/1)
period_size: 1024
buffer_size: 16384

When I use command:
-o hw:CARD=DAC,DEV=0 -a 20:4:24_3:1 -d all=debug
I get following values:
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S24_3LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 96000 (96000/1)
period_size: 480
buffer_size: 1920
Looks like music is playing now in real 24b96K studio quality.
However music is sounding weird then. Some kind of “Donald Duck” sound. It sounds distorted and it is not pleasant to listen to.
Do you have any suggestion?

Is this on a Pi? If so then there is the additional issue that the Pi's causes problems and people have found that runing in 16 bit mode (and hence sending less data) is prefereable. In general I'm not sure the Pi is reliable yet for usb audio.

[Nerdwebber]

Yes I use a Pi. Would there be a alternative for the RPI?

[sbp]

Hi Willem

Could you try:
-o hw:CARD=DAC,DEV=0 -a 20:4:24_3:0

[Nerdwebber]

Hi Willem

Could you try:
-o hw:CARD=DAC,DEV=0 -a 20:4:24_3:0

Hi Steen
No luck. When I use this commands I only get silence!
Best settings for good clean sounds are:
-o default:CARD=DAC -n piCorePlayer -a 80:4
However then my Dac plays only in 16b48K.

[hagensieker]

I'm a Raspberry Pi user as well. I stumbled across a USB firmware "fix" for the many reported USB issues for RPi. I was beginning to think as Triode said earlier that RPi wasn't ready for Prime Time for Squeezeplug but now I'm having no issues.

And hopefully the RPi USB issues will get tackled or hopefully there will be a Rev 3 that gives a solid hardware fix.

Since I've loaded this firmware my RPi has stayed up and hasn't crashed yet.

sudo apt-get install git-core

sudo wget http://goo.gl/1BOfJ -O /usr/bin/rpi-update && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update

sudo BRANCH=fiq_split rpi-update