Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2014-03-31 Thread JackOfAll
jemhayward wrote: > I have now got my Wandboard and have installed CommunitySqueeze and once > I'd deleted the ALSA parameters, it plays though my Audiolab MDAC via a > hub, and sounds great, BUT although it will play 24/96 files, it seems > to be coming out as 24bit 44.1kHz. > > I'm not sure wh

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2014-03-31 Thread jemhayward
I have now got my Wandboard and have installed CommunitySqueeze and once I'd deleted the ALSA parameters, it plays though my Audiolab MDAC via a hub, and sounds great, BUT although it will play 24/96 files, it seems to be coming out as 24bit 44.1kHz. I'm not sure where I set the max sample rate.

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-05-07 Thread kesa32
Hi , l'm in no hurry really , l was considering the olive but l reckon this'll be more what l'm after :) kesa32's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59780 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.co

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-05-06 Thread Chunkywizard
kesa32 wrote: > Hi ,l'll be interested in Gen2 when it is released ( i could go Gen1 now > , but my USB Dac is'nt as good as John's , so i'll wait for the final > product l reckon ) Gen1 doesn't exist yet either ;-D See the FAQ for details, but John is working on a board called SWAMP05 at the mo

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-05-01 Thread kesa32
Hi ,l'll be interested in Gen2 when it is released ( i could go Gen1 now , but my USB Dac is'nt as good as John's , so i'll wait for the final product l reckon ) kesa32's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?us

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-16 Thread albertone74
albertone74 wrote: > Hi Triode, > > I have got a FLIRC device today. As I would like to use the SBT IR > remote control, can you please let me know how I can use this file > > CommunitySqueeze Flirc Configuration.zip > > that you are referring to, in post #4? > > Many thanks. Triode, It is

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-16 Thread albertone74
Hi Triode, I have got a FLIRC device today. As I would like to use the SBT IR remote control, can you please let me know how I can use this file CommunitySqueeze Flirc Configuration.zip that you are referring to, in post #4? Many thanks. --

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-15 Thread JackOfAll
HumanMedia wrote: > I have a dream that LMS supports Dop (DSD in a PCM wrapper) and that > Community Squeeze supported it also for USB output. Then I would only > need one audio player, no laptops, no Mac minis, no cd or sacd players > and no more SBT. Code is done. It's been done for some time,

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-15 Thread HumanMedia
I have a dream that LMS supported Dop (DSD in a PCM wrapper) and that Community Squeeze supported it also for USB. Then I would only need one audio player, no laptops, no Mac minis, no cd or sacd players and no more SBT. How I wish it were more than a dream.

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-12 Thread Furry
JohnSwenson wrote: > The wandboard consists of two pieces, a cpu module and a carrier board > that has the peripheral interfaces. The module uses an emerging standard > (the EDM standard) which several companies are supporting. We are > currently using the wandboard in its entirety because it is

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-11 Thread Triode
JackOfAll wrote: > The short answer is no. Providing a release of CSOS that would run on > the Touch is not something we intend to do. Which is not to say that at > some point in the future there couldn't be a community released firmware > (OS) for the Touch, but I see that as being unlikely, unl

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-11 Thread marflao
JackOfAll wrote: > Correct! > > > > Right now, before the John Swenson DAC board is released which will have > an electrical SPDIF output, the default Wandboard carrier board has a > TOSLINK out, but does not have a COAX SPDIF out. > > > > The current audio (software) driver limits the out

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-11 Thread mintaudio
The musical fidelity vlink2 will work nicely with most modern linux distros (so should be fine on the Fedora used in Community Squeeaze) as an asynch USB to SPDIF adapter. You can use the M2tech Hiface but you need to build the driver for it - https://github.com/panicking/snd-usb-asyncaudio/wiki

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-11 Thread JackOfAll
marflao wrote: > > as far as I understood it the wandboard could be used as an altenative > or substitute streaming device for a SB device (pls correct me if I´m > wrong). Correct! marflao wrote: > > So let´s assume my beloved Touch will go to the happy hunting ground > would I then be able

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-11 Thread JackOfAll
Corelli45 wrote: > I I'm sorry if this is a silly question but I'm trying to weigh up the > options here. Will the Community Squeeze OS ever be able to run on a > Squeezebox Touch? The short answer is no. Providing a release of CSOS that would run on the Touch is not something we intend to do. W

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-11 Thread marflao
Hi everybody, as far as I understood it the wandboard could be used as an altenative or substitute streaming device for a SB device. So let´s assume my beloved Touch will go to the happy hunting ground would I then be able to play my music - which is stored on a Syno NAS - via the wandboard (whi

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Corelli45
I I'm sorry if this is a silly question but I'm trying to weigh up the options here. Will the Community Squeeze OS ever be able to run on a Squeezebox Touch? Corelli45's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread pippin
JackOfAll wrote: > > ickstream from what info has been given, is a cloud based music delivery > platform. Their client API is not based on how an LMS client currently > talks to the LMS server. Possibly the Touch could have a applet that > connected directly back to the ickstream cloud for music

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Mark Miksis
Triode wrote: > To add to this - we specifically picked the Wandboard for two reasons > (and you can see some agonising on this on the thread re hardware): > 1) We know it supports USB Dacs well as it has hardware ehci based > scheduling. Other platforms such as Beaglebone and Pi have serious >

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Triode
JackOfAll wrote: > And you are more than welcome to use another solution. I have a drawer > full of ARM hardware, that I have fiddled with for a week, then > discarded for various reasons. I haven't found an achilles heel with the > Wandboard yet, even if it is overkill for for a simple client pl

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread JohnSwenson
The wandboard consists of two pieces, a cpu module and a carrier board that has the peripheral interfaces. The module uses an emerging standard (the EDM standard) which several companies are supporting. We are currently using the wandboard in its entirety because it is functional as is. What I am

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread TheShanMan
JackOfAll wrote: > The thing is this.. It's a community project, by the community, for > the community. It is going to depend on more people from the community > getting involved. The people that are involved so far on the development > side, can only do so much. Totally understood. I may be

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread JackOfAll
Mark Miksis wrote: > The Wandboard seems like overkill for those of us not wanting to run LMS > on the player. There will probably be less expensive player-only > solutions, especially if the Raspberry Pi ever gets their USB drivers > fixed. And you are more than welcome to use another solution

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread JackOfAll
TheShanMan wrote: > I hope that this effort will ultimately include a future for > squeezeserver running on windows, support for older clients The thing is this.. It's a community project, by the community, for the community. It is going to depend on more people from the community gettin

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread maggior
Thank you John, that clears it up for me. Interesting developments on multiple fronts here. maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Mark Miksis
JackOfAll wrote: > The Wandboard Dual is the preferred hardware platform. This will not > change. The JS DAC carrier board has been designed to work with the > Wandboard and its EDM connector. If you wish to use the JS designed DAC > carrier board when it becomes available, it will only work with

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread JackOfAll
maggior wrote: > > Perhaps I missed in in the 79 pages of posts, but are there plans for > how this hardware will be disceminated? I see where John was soldering > components to a PCB. Has somebody signed up to mass produce the > hardware? Another announcement will be made, specifically conce

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread JackOfAll
froth wrote: > So is this different to what the ick squeeze post that pippen posted? > Or is it complementary? Or is it compitision? > > It all confusing to me. Yes, it is confusing. Community Squeeze is about supporting LMS, the Squeezelite software player, and a Community Based hardware pla

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread TheShanMan
I'm interested to see where this goes. I'm probably not interested in a stand alone server though. I hope that this effort will ultimately include a future for squeezeserver running on windows, support for older clients (I have a slimp3 and an SB1), and support for Pandora that doesn't time out (t

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread JackOfAll
Furry wrote: > As a potential 'early user', I have a couple of questions: > > 1. Is it likely that the Wandboard will persist, as the preferred > hardware platform? > > 2. If it doesn't persist, then is it likely that the Wandboard will > (also) be supported for future software releases? The W

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread tcutting
Furry wrote: > As a potential 'early user', I have a couple of questions: > > 1. Is it likely that the Wandboard will persist, as the preferred > hardware platform? > > 2. If it doesn't persist, then is it likely that the Wandboard will > (also) be supported for future software releases? My un

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Furry
As a potential 'early user', I have a couple of questions: 1. Is it likely that the Wandboard will persist, as the preferred hardware platform? 2. If it doesn't persist, then is it likely that the Wandboard will (also) be supported for future software releases?

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread garym
Marsupial wrote: > Can the community squeeze OS run on other hardware? yes garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98521 ___

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Marsupial
Can the community squeeze OS run on other hardware? Marsupial's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59182 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98521

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread garym
froth wrote: > So is this different to what the ick squeeze post that pippen posted? > Or is it complementary? Or is it compitision? > > It all confusing to me. My understanding: community squeeze is an "operating system" that can be installed on hardware to emulate a squeezebox player. The

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread froth
So is this different to what the ick squeeze post that pippen posted? Or is it complementary? Or is it compitision? It all confusing to me. froth's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11878 View this

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread garym
maggior wrote: > I read through some of that thread and the wiki article was > interesting. > > Perhaps I missed in in the 79 pages of posts, but are there plans for > how this hardware will be disceminated? I see where John was soldering > copmonents to a PCB. Has somebody signed up to mass p

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread maggior
I read through some of that thread and the wiki article was interesting. Perhaps I missed in in the 79 pages of posts, but are there plans for this hardware will be disceminated? maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread asplundj
Maggior: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97881-Community-Funded-Squeezebox-Replacement-Would-you-be-interested asplundj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53571 View this thread: http://

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Julf
maggior wrote: > What form will the "community hardware" take? Community software > projects make sense, but I've never heard of a community hardware > project. Will it be a parts list? A kit? 'Wikipedia: Open Source Hardware' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware)

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread maggior
What form will the "community hardware" take? Community software projects make sense, but I've never heard of a community hardware project. Will it be a parts list? A kit? It's interesting to see this little projects taking root. Hopefully one or all of them will take off. -

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread P Nelson
Consider putting instructions and perhaps a wiki on the communitysqueeze.org website. As this thread becomes numerous pages, and new threads get formed, having a central point of important information very useful. It's too bad the squeezebox wiki is no longer maintained. Paul ---

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Pascal Hibon
According to the Wanboard site there are two versions of the hardware available. A Solo and a Dual version. The Dual version also has wifi. Which of these two boards are required for this project? Pascal Hibon's Profile: ht

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-09 Thread Triode
jmschnur wrote: > Will IPeng work with is? > > > J Yes - It's LMS based and will support existing LMS on an external server (as today's squeezeboxes) or on the Wandboard. In both cases all existing LMS control applications will work, including the web interface and iPeng, SqueezePlay, Squeeze

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-09 Thread jmschnur
Will IPeng work with is? J jmschnur's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98521 ___ d

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-09 Thread Triode
Community Squeeze OS is designed to work with commerically available hardware. In advance of the Community Squeeze hardware player, this is the Wandboard (http://www.wandboard.org/) which is available via a number of resellers linked from their web page. If you want to use this as a Squeezebox c

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-09 Thread bakker_be
I'll post this here too, already posted in the other thread. Just put R1 on my Wandboard. Web interface for WLAN-configuration didn't seem to do what it needed to do (yes, I did use the "Save and reboot"-button) but I used Putty to ssh in and checked if the settings were correctly applied. ESSID

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-09 Thread Triode
Community Squeeze OS for the Wandboard can be downloaded from here: Code: http://www.communitysqueeze.org/images/wandboard/CSOS/CSOS-Wandboard-Dual-R1-20130409-1.img.7z Technical discussion of Community Squeeze OS and the features of this r

[slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-09 Thread Triode
Community Squeeze Release Community Squeeze is a community driven activity to continue the squeezebox open ecosystem and maintain availability of squeezebox compatible players now that Slimdevices/Logitech are no longer active in this market. It targets great audio quality at low cost with full