Very pleased with SqueezePlay

[peedee]

So, for someone who is not familiar with linux.... I have downloaded your tarball from file factory, and now.... ummm.... What do I do?

Got X all sorted and working fine.. But I cant get much further because all my googling points me back to where I don't really know what to do unfortunately.

[wvanbakel]

So, for someone who is not familiar with linux....

This is like picking a high mountain pass as your first drive after you get your drivers learning permit.

I suggest that you contact the boss here and ask him to support squeezeplay in a lightweight (twm) Xorg setup.

[peedee]

Hmmm. I won't tell you where I started driving then.

A wiki has been started - did it become more difficult than a series of CLI inputs and config file editing? That is easy. Its the more advanced stuff I have gotten stuck in a loop on in the past.

[nunovi]

I believe Squeezeplay will only support 24/96 maximum correct? MPD and Vortexbox player do support 24/192. I don't want to start a thread whether there's any difference between the two, but it might change the "no brainer" status of replacing VB Player with SqueezePlay...

[nunovi]

Foxesden, The very best audio experience for me was when I used mpd on FreeBSD, with the same hardware. FreeBSD does upsample to the maximum supported by my Music Streamer II, though.

When I started this journey of computer based audio entertainment I was reading about the ability of bitperfect audio processing, so I started with using hw:1,0 as alsa setup, but there was always something not sounding right and any conversion line in custom-convert.conf of the Logitech Media Server is a brute force approach.
I have come to the conclusion that for me plughw:1,0 is the better option. The plugin only resamples when it processes an audio stream that is not native supported by the DAC.

Squeezeslave only supports 44k1 samplerates, which makes my favorite NPR streaming programs sound like winding fast forward.
Vortexbox Player has an audible gap between the tracks and I noticed a difference in the hw_params file between vb-player and native mpd.

Anyway, this week I took another approach with Squeezeplay, my operating system is now CentOS 6.2 (support through 2020: until then no updates/reinstall needed) and I installed the minimal graphic desktop, enabled autologin and autostart of the Squeezeplay application. I also enabled Gnome Desktop Sharing, which lets me connect to the headless GUI with any VNC viewer on Windows, Linux, Apple and mobile device (no X11-forwarding needed). This VNC viewer is only needed once to register the squeezeplayer. I control the player with my iPod Touch or 'http://vortexbox:9000'

When you perform the installation, you probably have a monitor connected, that would be a good time to register the player. remote desktop access is not really a big deal then.

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Hi,

Can you make available your binary for CentOS? Seems like a very interesting approach for a simple network music streamer.

[wvanbakel]

Hmmm. I won't tell you where I started driving then.

A wiki has been started - did it become more difficult than a series of CLI inputs and config file editing? That is easy. Its the more advanced stuff I have gotten stuck in a loop on in the past.

I have mixed feelings.
When I started the wiki page I still wanted to explore several approaches to get Squeezeplay start automatically. With gdm or with xinit, for example. Also I wonder if I would be more appropriate to publish the instructions somewhere else, a google page for example, independent from this forum/wiki and just post a link. And then I was exploring if it would be feasible to offer a shell script or rpm that takes care of all the installation hassle.

I think a separate web page would serve this best.

[wvanbakel]

I believe Squeezeplay will only support 24/96 maximum correct?

Squeezeplay plays up to 192k

[wvanbakel]

Hi,

Can you make available your binary for CentOS? Seems like a very interesting approach for a simple network music streamer.

It works on CentOS, the first attempts I even compiled on CentOS, now I use Debian Squeeze, but that doesn't make a difference for the binary.
The only dependency is libpng12, Debian has that in the repo, I think that for CentOS you need to search in older fedora repo's.
My experience is that CentOS doesn't offer multimedia support out of the box, but it's possible. And it's 'outdated'.

I have Debian Testing running with Xorg launched from /etc/local.conf via xinit and twm as window manager.
Very lightweight and never a need to update again (Debian Testing is a 'rolling release')

[nunovi]

Squeezeplay plays up to 192k

Ok, although it does need some hacks. Did the version you compiled already have the 192KHz enabled?

[wvanbakel]

Ok, although it does need some hacks. Did the version you compiled already have the 192KHz enabled?

No I did not patch the source to support 192KHz, I figure that interested members would download the file that is already available in the mentioned thread.