keynet wrote: > I'm testing wavinput on my PiCoreplayer setup, here's a couple of things > I did to make it work + a question > > It worked pretty much first time, once I installed and configured the > local LMS on the PiCoreplayer + wavinput plugin as wavin:default. > I'm using an ancient USB Soundblaster MP3+ which works fine as a player, > and might approximate a low-end sound card these days. > But it produced horrible dropouts when capturing audio. > > Eventually, having tried a few things, I fixed it by changing the sample > rate from 44100 to 48000 > So the command in > /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/WaveInput/custom-convert.conf > becomes > > > Code: -------------------- > > [arecord] -d0 -c2 -f S16_LE -r 48000 -twav -D $FILE$ | [flac] -cs --totally-silent --compression-level-0 - -------------------- > > > > A nice simple fix in this case, no apparent dropouts, of course YMMV. >
The rate setting change is depeendent on the source and it appears your source only support 48kHz. > > The other thing I found was that the PCP didn't seem to load my saved > Alsamixer settings which default to the MIC as input - no good. > Setting the input to line and setting a suitable level, then 'sudo > alsactl store' saves asound.state in /var/lib/alsa > Setting user startup command #1 to 'sudo alsactl restore' does the trick > of always restoring input levels & routing. > > So the question - > > I'm using this setup to rip some vinyl, but having difficulty in > capturing the stream. Local capture isn't practical on the PCP due to SD > card size, location etc, and the suggestion is that Squeezelite can save > to file by redirecting output (-o -). However when I do this I get a > huge file very quickly, that nothing recognizes, not even Audacity. I'm > assuming it's FLAC or raw audio and tried piping it through ffmpeg, but > it doesn't like it either. Any suggestions ? Thanks This question really belong on a PCP thread as most PCP developers will not read a waveinput post. I find it hard to beleiev that a single vinyl LP rip to Flac will not fit on an SD card. The squeeszelite approach is not sensible. Use a direct conversion input to file (even networked drive) such as arecord -> flac -> file or ecasound (not sure if available on pcp). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
