There has been some interest in testing the latest squeezeslave compiled for VortexBox. 0.9.85 is the absolute latest from the squeezeslave SVN.
This command will install the beta
yum –enablerepo=vortexboxbeta update
NOTE: that's <double dash enablerepo> not single
I tested it here and it works great for playing FLAC files. But as soon as you play some streaming radio it hangs and you need to restart squeezeboxserver. maybe somebody else will have better results.
Ok everybody, This looks like a problem with 7.4 not SqueezeSlave. I added a bug to the Logitech Bug tracker for this. Create a bug tracker account and "vote" for this bug. The more people that vote the more attention it will get.
My bug was assigned today. It says milestone "future". As far as I can tell that means they have no plans to fix it any tim soon. Please vote on this bug and mention it in the SqueezeBox forums.
Sorry for the potentially stupid question but does this mean that the USB to SPDIF connection to a DAC will not work on 7.4. I ask this as I plugged my DAC in and did not see a new player come up in the players drop down.
Been playing around and things still work but some strange things going on.
The USB/SPDIF player seemed to freeze so I rebooted the vortexbox. Then when looking on the players on SqueezeboxServer there are only two: The normal one and a Vortexbox one, where there were three before (I assume one was a local player for the sound card).
So now USB/SPDIF player is called VortexBox as opposed to VortexBox(USB) as it was before the reboot.
SqueezeSlave -L now reeds:
* 0: HDA Intel: ALC888 Analog (hw:0,0) 1: HDA Intel: ALC888 Analog (hw:0,2)
Still a bit unstable though as it seems to crash when going from iPlayer back to my albums.
By the way tried the sound quality out and I can't detect a difference as I guess might be expected.