[ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

[jonte0]

OK - I made it. It plays!!

Thanks for the hints.

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[ralphy]

Hallo!

Well I have not been successful.. I tried to get in contact with the script creator in post #11 but the person seem to not been active since 2014.

I have a few questions... and in general on thin ice...

- the script seem to use squeezslave - do I need to install that also I assume? Is there a version for 10.15 Catalina?
- re: paths... "I put in /usr/local/bin as squeezeslave" - how do I perform this?


I think many of us GUI users (and not programmers) would really appreciate a GUI support for these settings (Fs and playback device) - - pretty please!?

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Sorry, squeezeslave has not been maintained for many years now.

OK - I made it. It plays!!

Thanks for the hints.

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Great!

[jonte0]

So I'm gonna pester you once more with the question and the promise not to repeat it anymore :

Can you please implement a choice of playback device in the Squeezeplay GUI?

Thanks in advance :-)

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[ralphy]

A new MacOS squeezeplay release 8.0.1r1352 is available on sourceforge.

This latest build Includes several fixes for the AAC decoder and a new M1 package to support native Apple M1 hardware.

See the first post for details.

[mrmichaelwright]

Hi Ralphy

Trying to install the SqueezePlay-M1-8.0.1r1352.dmg version from the link in the first post but I get an error message saying '“SqueezePlay” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image.'

OSX 11.2, Apple M1

Thanks

[mherger]

> Trying to install the SqueezePlay-M1-8.0.1r1352.dmg version from the
> link in the first post but I get an error message saying '“SqueezePlay�
> is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image.'

It's working fine here. Re-download using a different browser?

[ralphy]

I've uploaded a new M1 build SqueezePlay-M1-8.0.1r1360.dmg that supports the Mono Output Channel Mode feature that was added to LMS 8.2 recently.

The r1360 M1 image is my first squeezeplay build using Intel hardware. You can't run M1 programs on Intel, so I'd appreciate someone trying it and confirming success/failure.

Thanks.

[mherger]

Ralphy - downloaded your latest build, and it fails to load when launched regularly. I would get the same "Squeezeplay is damaged" message as mentioned before. Alas, running from a terminal is working just fine:

% file /Applications/SqueezePlay.app/Contents/MacOS/SqueezePlay
/Applications/SqueezePlay.app/Contents/MacOS/SqueezePlay: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64
% /Applications/SqueezePlay.app/Contents/MacOS/SqueezePlay     
Unable to obtain graphics context for NSWindow (Mojave behavior)
||PaMacCore (AUHAL)|| Error on line 492: err=''what'', msg=Unspecified Audio Hardware Error
Unable to obtain graphics context for NSWindow (Mojave behavior)

Running xattr to remove any additional attribute did fix it:

sudo xattr -cr /Applications/SqueezePlay.app

Now let's figure out why that would be necessary...

[mherger]

Heck... is this yet another security feature built in to Safari/macOS?

% sudo xattr -l SqueezePlay.app
com.apple.quarantine: 0183;6036461e;Safari;6C5650A9-35FD-409E-8063-476C0FF1B56D
% sudo xattr -cr SqueezePlay.app
% sudo xattr -l SqueezePlay.app 
%

The quarantine flag is set on the file. But I guess that's nothing you can fix on the build side?

I doubt this is the case for you, but here's what I've found:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/t...4022#644584022

[ralphy]

Thanks for testing the latest build and how to clear the attributes to get SqueezePlay to run on the M1.

I'll add it to the download page and the 1st post, until I can figure out if it's possible to fix it.

I agree with you that it might be a new "security" feature in OSX for disk images. The alternative might be to register on Apple's developer forum so I can create and sign a pkg installer.

I'm guessing the first squeezeplay disk image worked on the M1 as it was never downloaded to it, but built there.