Foggy wrote: > Hi Greg, > The sound quality when using the Pi is audibly inferior to a standard > Squeezebox, even through cheap PC speakers and that is when only running > the Squeezeslave software (I think also I tried Squeezelite some time > ago). I did a little searching at the time and I believe it is > considerably improved when using the specific USB audio cards, but this > was a while back, so I suggest you do a bit of digging. When running > 'motion' this resulted in a background click every second and additional > white noise and the playback speed seemed marginally slower than it > should have been. > When I first started considering running the Pi as a Squeezebox I soon > discounted the idea once I realised I needed to invest more money for > basic sound quality, I simply bought another SB3 on ebay for very > little. > I also tried running the Pi as a Squeezeserver and it was painfully > slow, unfortunately. > > I hope that helps, > Cheers, > Foggy
Hi Foggy, Thanks for your feedback. I somehow missed you were using a camera for motion detection. I was interested if those simple motion detectors caused any issues to the sound on the Raspberry Pi. I think you will find using a cheap i2s DAC will give you similar performance to "real" Squeezeboxes. I find "Audio out" OK for testing purposes, and a USB to headphone DAC ($5) gives better results. It might be a volume thing though. On the newer Raspberry Pi's there was white noise issue that was resolved in software. I am using the first generation Raspberry Pi successfully as a Squeezerserver, with 3 provisos, don't use the web interface, don't rescan everyday and don't resample. Besides that, I have found it streams perfectly - for over a year. Stick a camera on it, I have never tried that! regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104334 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
