Announce: piCorePlayer 3.00

[sckramer]

SO lucky i am !!!
It works, just two things for the moment:
- Can't change the buffer size in squeezelite setting, --> wrong format for 8196:16392 , but seriously "blank" works fine
-the volume of LMS goes back to default setting

I've rebooted many times to be check everything, because of some message "backup failed" appeared

works for me

Maybe update it's squeezelite to:

Squeezelite v1.8.4-762

I can set the buffer to yours or big like 1000:800000 for the pi3

[sckramer]

USB out (Fresh install)

FYI, USB refused to work until I commented out the analog audio in config.txt

Maybe this should be automatic when changing to USB & viseversa?

ssh in, commands: m1,c1,vicfg -> (edit), (save) --> pcp br

comment out:
dtparam=audio=on -> #dtparam=audio=on

[Greg Erskine]

hi sckramer,

All I can see you have done is change the card number of your USB sound card.

The onboard sound card usually defaults to CARD=0, therefore your USB card would be CARD=1. If you disable the onboard sound card your USB card becomes CARD=0.

I suppose there is a chance that there might be circumstances when the order is reversed, but I haven't seen it happen for a long time.

What is your "Output setting"? This controls what card ALSA uses for output.

regards
Greg

[paul-]

FYI, USB refused to work until I commented out the analog audio in config.txt

Maybe this should be automatic when changing to USB & viseversa?

ssh in, commands: m1,c1,vicfg -> (edit), (save) --> pcp br

comment out:
dtparam=audio=on -> #dtparam=audio=on

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Not a problem with my USB devices.. But then there are hundreds out there. Thanks for the info.

[sckramer]

hi sckramer,

All I can see you have done is change the card number of your USB sound card.

The onboard sound card usually defaults to CARD=0, therefore your USB card would be CARD=1. If you disable the onboard sound card your USB card becomes CARD=0.

I suppose there is a chance that there might be circumstances when the order is reversed, but I haven't seen it happen for a long time.

What is your "Output setting"? This controls what card ALSA uses for output.

regards
Greg

(removed the image showing USB devices, not really relevant)


Just letting you know what I got right out of the box... set to USB, dead air. (I had a Schiit dac plugged in)

The output setting is auto set to empty <blank> when I selected USB.

Cycled it back to analog/usb a few times, tried a diff dac etc... never worked

Did the config edit & it worked... I normally never use USB, I have no idea what to set the Output setting to.

The Output box is still blank now & is working (USB is card0 now I presume)


Thought this may make it a little more robust for other people & to just work out of the box.

[Greg Erskine]

hi sckramer,

We probably need to look further into this to make it less confusing.

You should really set "Output setting" correctly. This is a manual operation. Look under the "more>" > "Squeezelite found these output devices" for valid options. (something like sysdefault:CARD=Schiit-dac)

Back when we wrote this code, the USB sound card would always load *before* the onboard sound card. So, USB sound CARD=0. This would cause a problem for people using the onboard sound card because the card number would depend if there was any USB sound cards installed.

Somewhere along the line, the firmware changed so the onboard sound card is always loaded as CARD=0 (unless it is disabled of course), then USB and I2S sound cards.

regards
Greg

[Wigster]

Squeezelite does not run after upgrade

Hi,

Just updated a Pi2B with a hifiberry DAC+ from 2.06 to 3.00. Squeezelite does not seem to be able to start, even when I click on restart.

I have raplhy's v1.8.4-762 installed and running a top after ssh'ing in I can see that the process is not there. Not sure how I can try to debug this, but I've uploaded the report to pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/WBrpPsMU

[Greg Erskine]

Hi,

Just updated a Pi2B with a hifiberry DAC+ from 2.06 to 3.00. Squeezelite does not seem to be able to start, even when I click on restart.

I have raplhy's v1.8.4-762 installed and running a top after ssh'ing in I can see that the process is not there. Not sure how I can try to debug this, but I've uploaded the report to pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/WBrpPsMU

hi Wigster,

Your config.cfg looks good.

I assume you tried a reboot.

Try reselecting "Audio output" to a different setting then back.

@everyone,

Can you confirm that the pastebin link is not accessible?

regards
Greg

[nowhinjing]

confirm pastebin not available.

hi Wigster,

Your config.cfg looks good.

I assume you tried a reboot.

Try reselecting "Audio output" to a different setting then back.

@everyone,

Can you confirm that the pastebin link is not accessible?

regards
Greg

confirm pastebin not available.

[Greg Erskine]

Thanks nowhinjing.

[Jeff07971]

One of my players (the only one upgraded to version 3.0), wont allow squeezelite to start. Curiously however, I did upgrade my picore server (server only, not a player), and it does have squeezelite running. It's a server only, so no output chosen. I tried changing the output DAC choices on the newly upgraded player, but to no avail. Squeezelite won't run.

I have upgraded my squeezelite from 2.06 to 3.0 and I too have the problem where squeezelite will not start (HiFiBerry DAC+)
Have tried reselecting another output and back but still does not work, will try from clean img - a bit of a pain but not a great one.

[Jeff07971]

Feature request !

Can the settings for framebuffer size be put into the gui ?

I have to edit config.txt in order to have Jivelite work at 1920x1080

Not a biggy but would be nice !

[Jeff07971]

I have upgraded my squeezelite from 2.06 to 3.0 and I too have the problem where squeezelite will not start (HiFiBerry DAC+)
Have tried reselecting another output and back but still does not work, will try from clean img - a bit of a pain but not a great one.

Have tried from clean img but squeezelite still will not start.
I ssh'd in and ran sueezelite -l

tc@RPi2-2:/$ /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/squeezelite-armv6hf -l
Output devices:
  null                           - Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
  sysdefault:CARD=ALSA           - bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 ALSA - Default Audio Device

It appears that hifiberry DAC+ is not being detected.

config.txt shows overlay

# Remove audio hiss
# disable_audio_dither=1
lcd_rotate=2
dtoverlay=lirc-rpi,gpio_in_pin=25
dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus

and lsmod shows modules loaded

tc@RPi2-2:/$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: G
uinput                  7561  1
snd_soc_hifiberry_dac     2568  0
snd_soc_bcm2835_i2s     6366  0
snd_soc_pcm512x_i2c     2281  0
snd_soc_pcm512x        17406  1 snd_soc_pcm512x_i2c
snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus     4169  0
snd_soc_core          129518  4 snd_soc_hifiberry_dac,snd_soc_bcm2835_i2s,snd_soc_pcm512x,snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus
snd_bcm2835            20630  0
snd_pcm_dmaengine       3467  1 snd_soc_core
regmap_i2c              3431  1 snd_soc_pcm512x_i2c
snd_pcm                77898  6 snd_soc_hifiberry_dac,snd_soc_pcm512x,snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus,snd_soc_core,snd_bcm2835,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd_timer              19654  1 snd_pcm
snd                    54134  4 snd_soc_core,snd_bcm2835,snd_pcm,snd_timer
lirc_rpi                6718  3
lirc_dev                8341  1 lirc_rpi
rc_core                17430  1 lirc_dev
squashfs               29704 18
zram                   21852  1
zsmalloc               12458  1 zram
lz4_compress            3028  1 zram
spi_bcm2835             6868  0
bcm2835_gpiomem         3211  0
i2c_bcm2708             4884  0
bcm2835_wdt             3434  0
uio_pdrv_genirq         3202  0
uio                     8544  1 uio_pdrv_genirq

[Wigster]

hi Wigster,

Your config.cfg looks good.

Try reselecting "Audio output" to a different setting then back.

Thanks for taking a look.

Indeed, when I switch the Audio output to Analog, Squeezelite comes up after reboot. But when I switch it back to the HiFiberry DAC+ it again fails to start.

I have the DAC+ Pro if that makes any difference.

[Chluz]

Thanks for taking a look.

Indeed, when I switch the Audio output to Analog, Squeezelite comes up after reboot. But when I switch it back to the HiFiberry DAC+ it again fails to start.

I have the DAC+ Pro if that makes any difference.

Same problem here with HifiBerry Dac + pro.

/mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/squeezelite-armv6hf -l and aplay -l also don't show the device listed