Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Spotty on Rpi3 / Very slow

2018-09-16 Thread Michael Herger
Running Raspian. Memory looks fine. top says ther's 500BM free. So I guess not memory bound. Agreed, nothing obviously wrong there. When I start playing a track squeezebox has around 12% usage with a brief spike up to 50%ish Hmm... I wouldn't even expect LMS to do much work in this case. It

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Greg Erskine
drmatt wrote: > Yes, but presumably you rebased the kernel so the drivers have changed. > Is it a units thing? Calculate in GB, resize in MB, that sort of thing? > Some cards wind up causing a rounding error? Might be some cards that > are just fake 64GB cards. I do have a 64GB card kicking arou

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Greg Erskine
totoroBounced wrote: > Worked pretty fast, under a minute from clicking to restarting. I used > this card: > > With the latest piCore player: > > piCorePlayer | piCorePlayer v4.0.0 | linux 4.14.56-pcpCore_v7 | piCore > v9.1pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.0-1113 | Sun Sep 16 18:24:48 PDT 2018 > > I did

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread totoroBounced
So I tried the instructions, and set -D 100:u32be Sadly, I only get errors in the log file. To be clear, I only got this to work in Ubuntu with the 4.18 kernel, where it seems recognition of the Mytek DAC's got rolled into. Sounds like piCore is dependent on that as well. Oh, well. :) Gues

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread totoroBounced
Greg Erskine wrote: > Thanks totoroBounced, > > I would like you to test, but... only if you heed the warning below. :o > > So we can assume pCP by default works on your 32GB SD card. Tick. > > On [Main Page] in [Advanced] mode > select [Resize FS] > select "Use the > whole SD card" > Press [

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Greg Erskine
totoroBounced wrote: > Thanks Greg! > > So I happen to have a 32 Gig card in my 4.0 Picore/raspberry pi, can I > help test something? > > Erik Thanks totoroBounced, I would like you to test, but... only if you heed the warning below. :o So we can assume pCP by default works on your 32GB SD

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread totoroBounced
Thanks Greg! So I happen to have a 32 Gig card in my 4.0 Picore/raspberry pi, can I help test something? Erik totoroBounced's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65904 View this thread: http://forum

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Greg Erskine
totoroBounced wrote: > Thanks so much! > > What I really need is a Squeezelite 1.9 for RPI with DSD. > > Alternatively, how hard is it to cross compile, once I have Squeezelite > compiling for Ubuntu / x86_64? Hi totoroBounced, It's already there! No compiling, no delay 1. Turn on [Be

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Greg Erskine
Linvincible wrote: > Hello, just updated to pcp4 > > squeezelite will not start if I use the driver hifiberry digi+ pro, doe > sonly when I use the driver hifiberry DAC+ Light (this is a straight > bypass of I2S signal, card does nothing) > > Hifiberry support said: > > -as we're not the deve

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread totoroBounced
Thanks so much! What I really need is a Squeezelite 1.9 for RPI with DSD. Alternatively, how hard is it to cross compile, once I have Squeezelite compiling for Ubuntu / x86_64? totoroBounced's Profile: http://forums.sl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Greg Erskine
Man in a van wrote: > Hi Greg > > just "Resizing FS to whole SD card." > > On the v1.4 the restart hangs on a shell, offering logged in as tc, but > does not respond to any input from the keyboard (I was watching on a > monitor connected to the pi). > > On the v3.5 the restart completes and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Greg Erskine
totoroBounced wrote: > Well, I got DoP working. << sigh >> hi totoroBounced, I don't use DSD myself so I can't help much, but it should be just a matter of setting the right options. It shouldn't be too difficult. I believe people have been using DoP for quite a while and more recently DSD.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread trans_lux
Greg Erskine wrote: > hi trans_lux, > > What was the Brand and model of the card? > > regards > Greg Tried a couple different cards, same results with 4.0, 3.5 is ok Micro Center 64GB microSDXC Class 10 SanDisk 64GB Ultra Plus microSDHC Class 10 16GB Pny microSDHC Class 4 resized fine with v

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread totoroBounced
Well, I got DoP working. << sigh >> totoroBounced's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65904 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109404 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread totoroBounced
TBC : I'm trying to play DSD directly. I had this all set up on Ubuntu 18 with Linux 4.18.3 kernel. What I learned from that was that I needed Squeezelite 1.9 AND the DSD compiler options, which meant I had to compile from source. I really can't compile for TC from source here, so any help to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread totoroBounced
totoroBounced wrote: > OK, if I use advanced options, it has the "-e DSD" suggestion. > > But there is no such codec listed in the Squeezelite -? info and the > usual -D option for setting delay and transmit mode (little endian, big > endian) is also missing. > > I'm afraid I'm way out of th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread totoroBounced
paul- wrote: > Check the bottom of the squeezelite page OK, if I use advanced options, it has the "-e DSD" suggestion. But there is no such codec listed in the Squeezelite -? info and the usual -D option for setting delay and transmit mode (little endian, big endian) is also missing. I'm af

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread earnmyturns
Furry wrote: > Edit(4): It now seems to work OK with local USB flash drive for library. > Conclusion: it's a 'must' to point the piCorePlayer to 127.0.0.1 if > also running LMS on the RPi. So I guess this post is now just a story, > as information for anyone else who doesn't already know this;

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Picoreplayer and mansr SOX

2018-09-16 Thread ralphy
ralphy wrote: > The newer sox binaries in the sourceforge link I provided INCLUDE DSD. > > The sox binaries updated to 14.4.2 in LMS on Sept 3rd do NOT include DSD > support as we used the latest release source tar file from mansr git hub > which does not have DSD. > > You can determine if you

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Man in a van
Greg Erskine wrote: > Thanks Ronnie, > > Are you talking about just making the original pCP image or "Resizing FS > to whole SD card." > > regards > Greg Hi Greg just "Resizing FS to whole SD card." On the v1.4 the restart hangs on a shell, offering logged in as tc, but does not respond to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread Linvincible
Hello, just updated to pcp4 squeezelite will not start if I use the driver hifiberry digi+ pro, doe sonly when I use the driver hifiberry DAC+ Light (this is a straight bypass of I2S signal, card does nothing) Hifiberry support said: -as we're not the developers of PiCorePlayer, we can't reall

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread drmatt
Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi drmatt, > > Funny thing is we have not changed the Resize FS code for a long time, > so it is weird that it just stops working. :mad: > > Also, when we set the size to a given value it works. Probably if we > added an option for 63.5GB it would work. > > regards > Gre