VortexBox Player RC1

[HalfBit]

Andrew said:
HalfBit said:
1. Does VortexBox Player (VBP?) sync with the hardware players like the duet receivers?


2. Is VBP able to play Internet Radio?


3. If able to play Internet Radio, is the bug where squeezeslave stoped playing fixed?




1. Not at the moment but we are working on it.


2. yes, you can play anything on VBP that you can play on a hardware player.


3. The bug you are talking about is a SqueezeSlave bug. It has nothing to do with VortexBox Player.




1. Thanks. Sync is important to us. We have several Duet receivers, and like to be able to move from room-to-room and continue to hear the same thing. Please post when you get VBP sync working.


3. From my understanding of Logitech's bug report feedback, the bug's source is not certain, and the problem could be associated with handling of the SqueezeSlave status signals by recent versions of Squeezebox Server.


I will look into how VBP works, but it sounds like it is not controllable via the Squeezebox Server GUI. Is that correct?


Please point me at the instructions on how to use VBP.


Thanks

[sonorejr]

Halfbit, the Squeezebox Server GUI is used to select regular Logitech devices as before. What has been done is to allow you to now also select Vortexbox-Player in the Squeezebox Server GUI for playback.




Jesus R

[andrew]

HalfBit said:

1. Thanks. Sync is important to us. We have several Duet receivers, and like to be able to move from room-to-room and continue to hear the same thing. Please post when you get VBP sync working.

3. From my understanding of Logitech's bug report feedback, the bug's source is not certain, and the problem could be associated with handling of the SqueezeSlave status signals by recent versions of Squeezebox Server.


I will look into how VBP works, but it sounds like it is not controllable via the Squeezebox Server GUI. Is that correct?


Please point me at the instructions on how to use VBP.


Thanks




1. it's important to me as well. That's why we are working on it


3. As I mentioned before VortexBox Player is different code then SqueezeSlave so it is not affected by this bug just as hardware players are not effected.


4. VortexBox Player has a very nice GUI for configuring it including tool tips on how to use it You might want to install and then see if you still need instructions.




You can type setup-vb-player from the command line to install it.

[HalfBit]

". . . type setup-vb-player from the command line to install it."

Ah, that's the level of instruction this dummy is looking for.

[smithkt]

To be honest, I have moved on from this project. Since I was having playback problems, I re-evaluated my needs. The reality is I do not have any squeeze devices in my setup anyway, so I setup my own system using only MPD, Ampache for web based control, samba to share the files. Same hardware and playback is flawless. Ampache lacks a little of the polish that the Squeeze Server has, but it gets the job done.


There are many clients to control MPD. I have pmix installed on my Droid phone and can use it to pause,skip, etc.


I do want to thank Andrew for creating this project. I learned quite a bit from seeing how it was implemented and it certainly made it much easier to do my own thing.

[GC]

Hi Andy,


I've installed the player on the standard vortexbox. I've come across a number of problems (may be user error though) :


1) When I connect a DAC player (via the USB) this works fine. I cannot, however, seem to get the analogue output working tried a number of different configs. The analogue works fine if there's no DAC plugged in (and I've changed the config appropriately).


2) I cannot control the volume of the DAC output through the squeezebox server frontend. This might be a stupid comment though as it's obviously a digital output, not sure if any volume info is passed.


3) When using iplayer I can get normal BBC saved programs to play, but the listen live option does not seem to work.


4) I can't get the split audio to work I've tried putting in the new asound.conf file listed in another post put no joy. I do not see any difference in the ports or devices list.
(Note I am just mucking about with this, don't really need it so if its a pain explaining possible problems please don't waste your time).


Any help would be appreciated, particularly with 3 as I would love to get rid of the radio in the lounge.


My setup I am trying is:



ALSA device list
0 [default ]: USB-Audio - C Media USB Audio
C-Media INC. C-Media USB Audio at usb-0000:00:1d.2-1, full speed
1 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfea38000 irq 16


List of audio device ports
2: : timer
3: : sequencer
4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
5: [ 0] : control
6: [ 1- 2]: digital audio capture
7: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback
8: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture
9: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent
10: [ 1] : control




Geoff

[sonorejr]

GC, post the alsa section of the mpd config file that works for the usb device and then post the alsa section of the mpd config file that works for the analog output.




Jesus R

[andrew]

1. not sure about this one. Maybe a typo?


2. Yes, I found you can't control the volume of some digital devices. I added a new feature to support this. Just do an update.


3. not sure about this one. I have tested several BBC stations and they work OK.


4. Again maybe a typo. I have it working here usign that files I posted.

[GC]

Hi,


mpd for analogue working when DAC lead unplugged (mpd1.conf):


# Created by VortexBox on February 3, 2010, 10:18 am
port "6601"
zeroconf_enabled "no"


audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "VortexBox ANA"
device ""
mixer_type "software"n}


When DAC plugged in (and gui bits set) get an mpd1.conf of:
# Created by VortexBox on February 3, 2010, 10:32 am
port "6601"
zeroconf_enabled "no"


audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "VortexBox ANA"
device "hw:1,0"
mixer_type "software"n}


I don't have mpd file referring to the DAC but works fine - although still cannot use the volume control (despite checking the new volume control box on the gui).


Live bbc feeds still not working, can select them but the immediatelly stop. Anyone else having this problem - any recommendations?

[sonorejr]

GC, try this.


In the Vortexbox GUI under 'Configure Vortexbox Player' set the first row to"


Name = Vortexbox Analog, Audio Device - hw:0,0




In the Vortexbox GUI under 'Configure Vortexbox Player' set the second row to"


Name = Vortexbox USB, Audio Device - hw:1,0




Submit and try and report back.




Andrew, can you verify if these are the correct port numbers?




Jesus R