Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-12 Thread SomeChap
Firewire is better, but USB is perfectly viable, if you've got a reasonably capable PC. Lots of music production pro types use USB interfaces like these Edirol kits. I use an ageing USB Edirol UA-20 for live performance - ie low-latency real-time sound synthesis and sampling. With a decent

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-12 Thread mswlogo
I don't know how good softsqueeze is regarding asio or other bit perfect drivers. You might check into winamp which does support asio and recently they added winamp remote which I assume is a web interface. -- mswlogo XP Cat5 Transporter/DuetController SPDIF Meridian G68 DSP6000,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-12 Thread bpa
if only Softsqueeze and Squeezeslave supported ASIO under windows! This is more Sun issue for Softsqueeze as JavaSound doesn't support ASIO. -- bpa bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-12 Thread bhaagensen
bpa;422704 Wrote: This is more Sun issue for Softsqueeze as JavaSound doesn't support ASIO. What about the other Java vm's? Or perhaps this: http://www.jsresources.org/faq_misc.html#asio -- bhaagensen bhaagensen's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-12 Thread bpa
I check that out before I made the comment. Matthias's code was for a student thesis, it is v1.0, no updates and was completed in early 2004 (consider MS has changed Windows Audio APIs for Vista). I reckon using that module would be asking for trouble. -- bpa

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-11 Thread blu . vulcan
My Music server is made of: Asus eeeBox with winXP Home, Softsqueeze 3.8, Squeezecenter 7.4, Styleaudio Carat HD1V plus other hw of no importance for the question. Now Squeezecenter offers the best web GUI, no doubt. I want it, I need it. I need a web gui as i use a Sony PSP as a remote (with

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-11 Thread radish
Recommended solution: http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html :) -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63250

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-11 Thread SuperQ
Yes, the linux audio system doesn't do stupid crap like windows does. It's also a much better platform to run squeezecenter on. Download Ubuntu and give it a try. Otherwise, you could get yourself a squeezebox. -- SuperQ

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-11 Thread Anne
I seem to recall usb is not recommended as a digital output, where did I see this? -- Anne Squeezebox 3 Stereovox XV2 Bryston B100-DA SST Martin Logan Aeon I Anne's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] softsqueeze and bit perfect audio

2009-05-11 Thread blu . vulcan
Anne;422461 Wrote: I seem to recall usb is not recommended as a digital output, where did I see this? It maybe,I noticed that tipically even the most respected bargage doesn't go over 48Khz through usb; by now 16bit 44.1khz for me it's enough. Thank you Bye, blu -- blu.vulcan