Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-07-24 Thread soundcheck
JohnSwenson wrote: > 192 (and 176.4) will not work with PCM streaming. With PCM streaming the > sample rate is sent via a separate command, but that command doesn't > have anyway tospecify 176 or 192. With FLAC streaming the sample rate is > included in the FLAC header, which DOES know how to spe

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-07-24 Thread soundcheck
Triode wrote: > It's intended to do the same as screenoff in Toolbox + also disable > screen updates within squeezeplay, reducing the cpu load when the screen > would be displaying animating text such as long titles etc. Please > check the lua to verify I've got the same as you for the display o

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch+Triode's EDO applet+Hiface 2

2012-07-24 Thread soundcheck
Hiface II runs the XMOS interface chip. People who run the Wave-IO USB interface, which comes with the same XMOS chip, have problems to get that device recognized. That might happen to Hiface II too. The HII should work with the newest generic Linux USB driver. At times when I was looking into

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-24 Thread lovejoy
Viventis wrote: > There should be no difference at all. Digital is digital. Your > receiver's DAC will decode each the same. The big difference is in the > Touch's analog output. The DAC in the Touch is excellent, even better > than that found in many receivers. I beg to differ. Getting the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Ubuntu as server

2012-07-24 Thread lrossouw
What about file permissions on the mp3 files? I am using ubuntu for my server but I'm relatively new. I have read something somewhere aobut the permissions for files copied from windows may be off on ubuntu. You may need to change them. a) Can you play them directly on the ubuntu machine? I

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch+Triode's EDO applet+Hiface 2

2012-07-24 Thread Corelli45
Thanks Soundcheck. I'll perhaps look at the MF v link or maybe a USB dac. Corelli Corelli45's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=55246 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=9

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-07-24 Thread soundcheck
Hi there. Just reinstalled everything. And replaced the binaries (sox/flac) on the Linux server again. I took the last 7.8.0 nightly build. Touch got updated too with 7.8.0. (I also cleaned up my music files to avoid any tag/cue problems on the db scan - not a single problem in scanner.log an

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-24 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Viventis wrote: >> There should be no difference at all. Digital is digital. Your >> receiver's DAC will decode each the same. On 24 July 2012 17:21, lovejoy wrote: > > I beg to differ. Getting the 1s and 0s from your Touch to your DAC is > quite a challenge [...] over the poorly designed int

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-07-24 Thread Triode
soundcheck wrote: > That's what I guessed. > > I installed it. And configured the screensaver to be off while playing. > I still had the backlight on. > > Cheers Is it still doing this - can you capture any debugs - it should turn off the backlight when the screensaver kicks in. Note you nee

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch+Triode's EDO applet+Hiface 2

2012-07-24 Thread Jeff Flowerday
Hiface II works fine with the Touch+EDO. Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95880 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch+Triode's EDO applet+Hiface 2

2012-07-24 Thread Corelli45
Have you compared it to a straight coax/optical connection and does it matter that it converts the USB connection to spdif? Corelli Corelli45's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=55246 View this thread

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch+Triode's EDO applet+Hiface 2

2012-07-24 Thread Stratmangler
Corelli45 wrote: > Have you compared it to a straight coax/optical connection and does it > matter that it converts the USB connection to spdif? > Corelli I have, and I can't hear any difference between the two. The DAC in use is the M2Tech EVO. Chris :) --