Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2021-02-20 Thread PasTim
abartels wrote: > I managed this, but that is not the biggest problem anymore, I still > have NO local player available in LMS, and since this one is for a > friend of mine who only has an USB-dac, I need a local player real > badly. > > Please help! I assume you have added the plugin. Is it

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2021-02-20 Thread PasTim
abartels wrote: > Hello all, > > Sorry for my noob question but I have a strange problem. > For a friend of mine I copied my LMS 7.9 installation, running on a i7 > laptop with 32-bit Ubuntu 18.04, to a new SSD and mounted it in a "new" > i5 desktop pc. > > All works, but I can't get LMS 7.9

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2019-11-20 Thread PasTim
bernid wrote: > Yes. It is.:) > THANK YOU PasTim. Good. LMS 7.9.2 on PC, Xubuntu 18.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. 2 Touchs & EDO. LMS plugin UPnP/DLNA Bridge to MF M1 CLiC (A308CR amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Also Minimserver & Upplay

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2019-11-20 Thread PasTim
bernid wrote: > Thanks PasTim, > I tried your way but still have 'output_init_alsa' warnings on my > system: > Ubuntu server 19.10 +newest LMS+ Local Player Plugin (v.1.6.5)+ > squeezelite-x86-64 (v.1.9.5-1193). > I can hear the sound but I don't know if it could be b

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2019-11-19 Thread PasTim
bernid wrote: > Thanks ralphy, > Unfortunately it doesn't work in my Ubuntu. > See my '/etc/security/limits.conf' after the change and reboot: > https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/5GK2yHnyD7/ > > I still have: > > Code: > > output_init_alsa:1003 unable to lock memory:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2019-08-14 Thread PasTim
kosmonaut_75 wrote: > Oh boy, yes, it is a lot of work. I got into the plugins without having > read your post. Minimserver is much more stable and straightforward in > that regard... I had some difficulties with 'Work' and 'Group' tags in minimserver, but eventually got a solution that works

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2019-08-13 Thread PasTim
kosmonaut_75 wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Moode 5.3 on a RPi 3b+ with an Allo Boss DAC. In Moode > settings I turned on squeezelite player as well as UPNP Renderer. With > squeezelite player turned on I cannot use Moode as UPNP Renderer in > BubbleUPNP. When starting a track nothing happens and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2019-04-23 Thread PasTim
s25a wrote: > Hi again, > > > > C-3PO works perfectly with the R2 version. If you start Ralphys version > with -W it seems also to work without issues. I have not tested > everything yet. There's a hint on the Squeezelite-R2 GitHub that you > have to start Ralphy version with -W. > So that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2019-03-15 Thread PasTim
Jens Erik Jensen wrote: > Forgive me for asking a question that may have already been answered in > this rather long thread, I have searched for the solution without > success. > > I am using Ubuntu LTS versions (14.04, 16.04 and 18.04) on various > computers and I have good experiences using

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2019-03-15 Thread PasTim
Jens Erik Jensen wrote: > Forgive me for asking a question that may have already been answered in > this rather long thread, I have searched for the solution without > success. > > I am using Ubuntu LTS versions (14.04, 16.04 and 18.04) on various > computers and I have good experiences using

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2018-03-12 Thread PasTim
soundcheck wrote: > Try adding another song to the current playlist - with e.g. "play next". I was using a Dynamic playlist (using the Web GUI) that adds songs all the time. I don't see (or hear) any odd behaviour. Maybe I don't fully understand what you are doing (but then I don't see how

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2018-03-12 Thread PasTim
soundcheck wrote: > To me it's still a bug. If you call it design, or design flaw or > weakness or compromise - that doesn't matter to me. > > If "next" is the not "next" after the track being played back at that > very moment, it's IMO a very questionable design. > > Even with gapless

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-11-23 Thread PasTim
ralphy wrote: > VISEXPORT - used by jivelite to enable VU spectrum and VU meter now > playing screens when squeezelite is running on the same system. Linux > and Solaris only > IR - enable basic infrared remote control for VOLUMEDOWN VOLUMEUP > PREVIOUS REWIND NEXT FORWARD PAUSE PLAY POWER MUTE

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-11-23 Thread PasTim
marcoc1712 wrote: > I think the Ralphy version is to consider the 'community offical'. > Binary and build instructions are there. Thanks, but where is 'there'? I eventually found github for the source (not through the forum, which is a bit of a shame) but I failed to find any build instructions.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-11-22 Thread PasTim
Thanks. I can see that. However I'm feeling old and thick, with no memory. Somewhere in the several hundred pages of this thread are the download instructions. I know I had them once, and must be being very slow, but my searches obviously use the wrong terms. I think I built the last one

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-11-22 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: > The -S only supports a file name and squeezelite checks for the > existence of the file so even if you quote the variables to be part of > the -S parameter, it may not work. Just as a matter of interest, is there a new version supporting -S? I've a version from April 17 that does't

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-26 Thread PasTim
Roland0 wrote: > Binary perl modules have a non-binary part (usually .pm files) as well, > and these two have to be the same version. The LMS package supplies the > non-binary parts (in the CPAN folder), however, if a binary module built > by buildme.sh is a different version, the non-binary

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-25 Thread PasTim
I've also now managed to produce an init.d script that works both for the current LMS and for the self-built version, using a PATH defined in /etc/default/logitechmediaserver, so it's easy to switch as needed in future. I had to copy squeezeboxserver and squeezeboxserver_safe from /usr/sbin

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-25 Thread PasTim
Roland0 wrote: > That's a bit strange, it looks like an issue in the build script > itself. > Modify the rsync in buildme.sh as follows: > > Code: > > > #rsync -amv --include='*/' --include='*.so' --include='*.bundle' --include='autosplit.ix' --exclude='*'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-25 Thread PasTim
I've sorted out the buildme.sh script and now have built with 5.24.3. I still get: Code: Oct 25 15:44:41 vortexbox logitechmediaserver[7275]: Image::Scale: Oct 25 15:44:41 vortexbox logitechmediaserver[7275]: Image::Scale object version 0.11 does not match

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-25 Thread PasTim
Krisbee wrote: > I would think this has happened as the ./buildme.sh script has changed > since the first post in this thread to include building for perl 5.26 > if it already exists on the host system. See > https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver-vendor/blob/public/7.9/CPAN/buildme.sh > lines

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-25 Thread PasTim
So I thought I should start afresh, having probably mucked something up. I downloaded everything again starting with empty folders. Imagine my surprise when having entered "PERL_524=/opt/perl-5.24.3-LMS/bin/perl5.24.3 ./buildme.sh &> buildme.log" I find it has built 5.26 (in .../build/arch/). I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-24 Thread PasTim
Roland0 wrote: > Yes > To make sure permissions are correct: > > Code: > > > chmod -R a+rX /opt/logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-1508251793-noCPAN/ > find /opt/logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-1508251793-noCPAN -name \*.pl -exec chmod a+x {} \; > > > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-24 Thread PasTim
I'm almost there, but when slimserver.pl starts it can't get seem to get permission to run bootstrap.pm, as below. bootstrap.pm exists in Slim, and I changed permissions to 755, then 777, but still nothing. I'm assuming the /opt/logitechmediaserver... directory and all it's contents should be

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-23 Thread PasTim
Roland0 wrote: > When you build perl, you need to make sure you have the debian -dev > packages for some perl support libraries installed (e.g. zlib-dev in > this case). Check the output you get while running the build/test for > anything missing. Thanks. I'll try again > > You won't have to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-23 Thread PasTim
The rest of my perl make went OK, but I had a permissions error on the make install-strip so used sudo, which seemed to complete OK. Next issue was the lms CPAN build. I get: Code: Warning: the following files are missing in your kit: win32/zlib.lib

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2017-10-23 Thread PasTim
I'm attempting a Perl 5.4.23 build with LMS 7.9.1. On 'make test' of perl I get Code: Failed 2 tests out of 2313, 99.91% okay. ../dist/Time-HiRes/t/stat.t ../lib/File/stat.t ### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of ###

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-05-20 Thread PasTim
anotbot wrote: > Thank you for your help PasTim. > > No, no firewalls - my other squeezeplayers work fine (iPad and Mac) it's > just the Pi ones that don't... thinking it might be something to do with > the Max2Play software, as I know someone else is having the same > pr

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-05-19 Thread PasTim
anotbot wrote: > Yes, I've tried that and though the squeezelite player starts up, it can > no longer be found by any controller... so not a solution :-( Beats me - sorry. You really don't have any firewalls set up anywhere do you? LMS 7.9.1 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 17.04, FLACs 16->24

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-05-19 Thread PasTim
anotbot wrote: > Hi PasTim, > > Thank you for your help. > > Here is the log from the Pi server - I'm not sure what any of it means > :-) > > I was trying adding various options to the squeezelite command line. > > The first bit is the default for the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-05-18 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: > Any squeezelite and/or LMS logs showing errors? I realise that you supplied one squeezelite log, but is there nothing else? Do you get the library errors on the system running LMS? Can you compare the logs from both PIs? LMS 7.9.1 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 17.04, FL

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-05-18 Thread PasTim
anotbot wrote: > Yes, I've tried having the Justboom DAC as the server and it then plays > fine , but then the other Pi exhibits the same behaviour, playing a few > seconds and stopping. I also tried running the server on a Mac Pro, but > then both Pi's have the problem. However, there is no

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-05-18 Thread PasTim
nick w wrote: > ..Does this make sense? > Any ideas? Beyond my limited knowledge I'm afraid. I've no idea what Xsqueeze is. I assume the debug switch is just allowing the error messages to be displayed, but I could be wrong. I would just try to install the missing libraries (libflac

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2017-05-17 Thread PasTim
nick w wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Hardware - Raspberry Pi2 > OS - Libreelec (Kodi18) > Version: devel-20170505210721-#0505-g2911c4a > LMS Hardware - HP micro Server N54L > LMS Version - 7.9.0 > > > Code: > > squeezelite -l > Output devices: > null - Discard all

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-12-23 Thread PasTim
adz wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a squeezelite player on fedora together with the logitech > media server. Since long I struggle unsuccessfully to enforce a 16 or 24 > bit format using the alsa parameter " -a ::16:1 ". I manage to pass this > string into the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-12-23 Thread PasTim
s25a wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for not explaining well. I will try again. But first to answer the > question of paul > > > > I am using 2 raspberries 3 with integrated wifi. I testes release 3.02 > which is I think the actual stable. I really like it because it is > exactly what I need as a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-12-22 Thread PasTim
s25a wrote: > Hi, > > thanks a lot. The goal is that the players run and play 24/7. Of course > if necessary I can reboot them during the night but in any case it > should restart the music after the reboot. > Moreover it should restart the music in case the Internet connection was > lost. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-12-22 Thread PasTim
s25a wrote: > Hi, > > just a simple question but I did not find something. Is there an option > to automatically start the last item that was played after a restart (or > reboot) > > I have the issue that sometimes the internet reconnects and than you > have to start the last internet stream

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-12-11 Thread PasTim
gstew wrote: > I keep looking at my Touch (which I've NEVER used for playing > music). Do you mean you've never switched it on? Apart from being able to display some images what else can a Touch do apart from play music? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 16.04, FLACs 16->24 bit,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-12-02 Thread PasTim
soundcheck wrote: > Hi Ralphy. > > I had a discussion about customized conversion rules and MAC based > routing and LMS rule priorities . > I brought up my issue over here: > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-09-28 Thread PasTim
JackOfAll wrote: > If you want to track the stable 3.1 release branch > > > Code: > > > git clone -b release/3.1 https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg-3.1 > > > > > ffmpeg current master development tends to be a little too bleeding

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-09-28 Thread PasTim
JackOfAll wrote: > I guess you are cloning current git master or something rather than > downloading the 3.1.3 tar.bz2 archive, 'ffmpeg-3.1.3.tar.bz2' > (http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-3.1.3.tar.bz2). Indeed, so I can keep up to date with a git pull. I'll try to investigate the website

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-09-28 Thread PasTim
JackOfAll wrote: > Sorry, cant help with how you get distribution specific packages. > Ralphy builds from source, AFAIK. So do I. I also built from source, by cloning as per https://ffmpeg.org/download.html and I get: Code: ffmpeg -version ffmpeg version

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-09-28 Thread PasTim
ralphy wrote: > I download the ffmpeg source files from http://ffmpeg.org/download.html All rather confusing - thanks. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 16.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS plugin UPnP/DLNA Bridge to MF M1 CLiC (to A308CR amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-09-28 Thread PasTim
I'm also somewhat confused by ffmpeg versions. I'm on ubuntu 16.04. Having compiled an ffmpeg locally it reports version N-81780-g4a05d2e , which bears no relation to 3.1.3. Nor does the standard version installed which synaptic says is version 7.2.8.6-1. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi box,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-03-07 Thread PasTim
marcoc1712 wrote: > I'havent tried squeeze2upnp so I don't know how it works,but if is based > on squeezelite and you are trying to send upsampled pcm, it will not > work as any other player will not, just beocuse LMS in that case send > wrong information, thtat's why we have squeezelite-R2. If

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-03-07 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: > Thanks very much. Your English is fine - please don't apologise for > making life easy for us monolingual people! > > I hadn't even tried to look under each player - silly of me. I'll have > a go. > > I'll also build a squeezelite-R2. I don't really

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-03-07 Thread PasTim
marcoc1712 wrote: > No, there is no reason not to use C-3P0 for any player. The only limit > by design is: lossy are not supported and DSD is leaved to DSDPlay > plugin, that's working in a very similar way, but they still play > untouched by C-3PO, as any format you choose to disable. > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-03-07 Thread PasTim
marcoc1712 wrote: > Togheter with Squeezelite-R2, you have C-3PO plugin, that is an easy > replacement and a graphical interface over File type and > custom-convert.conf files, in order to simplify and better organize file > type conversions and upsample in LMS and falcon, a web interface over a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2016-03-06 Thread PasTim
s25a wrote: > Hi, > > can someone help to find an actual build of squeezelite for Ubuntu? I > normally use the builds from Ralph but as far as I can see the last > release for Ubuntu is 1.8 which has been uploaded in FEB 2015 > https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4q8dvq20iyz9e/Builds#lllwjg7xjl1by

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-10-16 Thread PasTim
Kev6eel wrote: > I am new to VB and Linux and having some issues getting my new VBA to > play using SqueezeLite via USB through my Arcam rDAC. Any suggestions or > pointers would be appreciated. > > The Arcam rDAC shows the USB input from the VB appliance is synced (DAC > sync LED is green) but

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-10-11 Thread PasTim
wazzubrad wrote: > Can someone give any suggestion here... I'm not quite sure what you are modifying in /etc/default. Is that a settings file for running squeezelite as a service? I used to use something similar that I got from someone else on these forums rather than from the squeezelite

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-07-06 Thread PasTim
Muttley wrote: What localplayer plugin where do I find that ? Not that I think I'll use it I have a working solution See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97766-Announce-Local-Player-plugin-and-Squeezelite-for-Linux-Windows-OSX . It's a third party plugin (or was when I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-05-29 Thread PasTim
peterhocking wrote: Hi I've built a number of Ubuntu based media centre PCs over the last 6 months running Ubuntu 14.04 where I've used Kodi for video playback Squeezelite for music playback. I use the Startup Applications app to load Squeezelite at start up I've used the command line

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-04-02 Thread PasTim
Jeff Flowerday wrote: I have an amp that has an internal USB DAC. So my amp gets turned off when not in use. On power back up, squeezelite needs to be restarted to communicate properly with it. No sound comes out otherwise and playback controls get stuck constantly saying it's playing.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-04-02 Thread PasTim
Jeff Flowerday wrote: Squeezelite 1.8, power off and power on seems to help it recover with just one event in the console. Good enough for me, I just power off Squeezelite now when I'm done listening. I assume you built it yourself? The only binaries I see (for linux) are 1.7. LMS 7.9 on

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
benlumley wrote: They seem to be v 1.7, whereas 1.8 is the latest - https://code.google.com/p/squeezelite/source/browse/ChangeLog.txt Interested because I get a problem playing back the new BBC hla streams via squeezelite-osx, wanted to see if a newer version worked better. Well well. It's

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
benlumley wrote: Hey, Save me working out a build environment, does anyone have binaries for the latest squeezelite for osx? Ta Are the ones at the bottom of https://code.google.com/p/squeezelite/ not the ones you need? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-03-08 Thread PasTim
extremeaudio wrote: I'm sorry, but did you want me to enter -o hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 in the player settings exactly as is? I did that and hdmi it does not show up as a player in my controller. Sorry I don't know how to access squeezelite log from vortexbox I used to run vortexbox

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-03-06 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: Have you tried using parameter -o hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 ? Sorry, was my answer too simplistic? Do you have any further squeezelite debug info on what happens when you try and play to the HDMI device? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-03-05 Thread PasTim
extremeaudio wrote: Hi, I have been referred to this forum by Ron Olsen from Vortexbox. I love vortexbox and the squeezelite player is just awesome. I am having trouble figuring out how to get audio over the HDMI port, can someone possibly guide as to how I can accomplish this? I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-03-01 Thread PasTim
Tim_LHUILLIER wrote: Hi all, tanks for your help It's not your fault. and yes when all worked i will use a better security. Thanks Thanks :) LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp to MF M1 CLiC (to MF amp ESLs) Marantz CR603 UPnP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-02-27 Thread PasTim
Tim_LHUILLIER wrote: Hi, Thanks for help, i solved my problem, The problem was that the driver wasn't isntalled, so I installed the generic usb, and it working, my DAC is detected. But now, i have a bug with the port : Code: /usr/bin/squeezelite-i386 -o

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-02-27 Thread PasTim
Krisbee wrote: Tim. I'm afraid you were given bad advice about the need to add your user to the audio group - epsecialy when you were not asked if you were working as root or a normal user . I did point that out. ? My fault. :( I failed to imagine that the user was root (I don't even

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-02-25 Thread PasTim
Tim_LHUILLIER wrote: So, squeezelite isn't compatible with *i686 GNU/Linux* ? -- Code: root@debian:/usr/bin# aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Loopback [Loopback], device 0: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM] Subdevices:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-02-07 Thread PasTim
Meridion wrote: I found a *workaround*! If I enable crossfade (1 second) [german: Überblendung] in the players audio setup page of LMS and also enable activate intelligent crossfade, everything plays ok. There is a short crossfade beween two arbitrary songs. And there seems to be no

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2015-01-23 Thread PasTim
chrissy wrote: Hi Blue, I need a little more Information about your system. What is a payne player. LMS never plays anything to USB or SPDIF. It serves a squeezbox or squezzelite which output to usb or spdif. Please open a separate thread for your problem, since this is a special

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-29 Thread PasTim
cncb wrote: I was surprised too but I set it up to dual boot into Raspbian and OpenElec. In Raspbian I get both channels, in OpenElec I get only the left channel so it is not a wiring issue. Alsamixer is not accessible in OpenElec presumably because I have read that ALSA is not included

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-20 Thread PasTim
gharris999 wrote: Just to close out this issue: the audio popping artifact problem seems to be resolved. Squeezelite is now working perfectly with the various USB DACs I've been trying. I did add the -a ::16:0 alsa options. But I also managed to get increased rtprio niceness working

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-20 Thread PasTim
gharris999 wrote: Heh. Thanks for that. I had thought alsa playback required running under a user account with a real login home directory for a place to store alsa config stuff. But your tweak works just fine. I had previously added squeezeboxserver to the audio group to make local

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-19 Thread PasTim
mherger wrote: SQUEEZEBOX_OPTIONS=--localfile # SQUEEZEBOX_OPTIONS=--noimage --novideo --noupnp --nosb1slimp3sync --localfile The commented out version would disable picture and video support (only used if using LMS as a UPnP server), syncing of the old SliMP3 and SB1 players

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-19 Thread PasTim
mherger wrote: On some Linux distributions it's something like /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver or logitechmediaserver or whatever. Check the startup script. Or find / -name squeezeboxserver etc. Or read it online: https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/blob/public/7.9/slimserver.pl#L731

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-15 Thread PasTim
Ron Olsen wrote: If you are running LMS 7.8.0 or LMS 7.9.0 on VortexBox 2.3, the --localfile option is set in /etc/sysconfig/squeezeboxserver, so your VB is running LMS with the --localfile option already, and you need to do nothing more. You can verify by logging into your VB and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-15 Thread PasTim
Ron Olsen wrote: Thanks for explaining. Since ubuntu use the LMS .deb package, you should set the --localfile option using SLIMOPTIONS in /etc/default/logitechmediaserver. Edit this file and change Code: SLIMOPTIONS= to Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-15 Thread PasTim
Ron Olsen wrote: I found out the info by downloading the LMS 7.9.0 .deb package and examining its contents, then looking at /etc/init.d/logitechmediaserver and /etc/default/logitechmediaserver. These files may be difficult to understand if you don't have Linux shell script knowledge. Thanks.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-15 Thread PasTim
Ron Olsen wrote: Each LMS package (.rpm, .deb, .exe, ...) has its own way of specifying LMS options. It is assumed (incorrectly) that users of these packages know how to specify LMS options as required by the packages. Users of the Linux packages (.rpm, .deb) need to know Linux shell

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-15 Thread PasTim
Ron Olsen wrote: The only place I've seen the .deb LMS options listed is in /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver, but there is no indication of what each option means. The .rpm LMS options are listed in /usr/libexec/squeezeboxserver, which is identical to the .deb /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver. The

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-14 Thread PasTim
Triode wrote: 7.9 includes the file handler which is enabled using --localfile Sorry, my ignorance is showing again. I thought this was a Local Player / Squeezelite option (I tried running Squeezelite with it but it did not seem to like it). Are you are indicating it's an LMS option set on

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-14 Thread PasTim
Triode wrote: Yes LMS version 7.9 option. Sorry, you assume I have a lot more knowledge than I have, and I need to explain more clearly my confusion. In the Local Player setup there is a 'direct local file access' option. I want to use the same only from a stand-alone squeezelite on the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-11 Thread PasTim
gharris999 wrote: OK, this is *really* kicking my butt. I cannot figure out how to make a sysvinit started service respect values in /etc/security/limits.conf when the daemon is started as a user other than root. At this point, having spent as much time as I have learning to write init

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-12-10 Thread PasTim
gharris999 wrote: OK, this is *really* kicking my butt. I cannot figure out how to make a sysvinit started service respect values in /etc/security/limits.conf when the daemon is started as a user other than root. At this point, having spent as much time as I have learning to write init

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-11-21 Thread PasTim
Triode wrote: I've updated the googlecode source and the prebuilt binaries at: https://code.google.com/p/squeezelite/ to version 1.6.5 This is a bug fix release - please update. And Local Player? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. Wired Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-11-21 Thread PasTim
Triode wrote: Yep - that's been updated too. Thanks. I know I can copy the bin to the plugin directory and tinker with the ownership and access rights, but it's a lot cleaner easier when it's done via the plugin menu :) LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-10-15 Thread PasTim
wiped wrote: Long time user of squeezeslave on my macbook pro osx 10.9.5 Since the development of squeezeslave has stopped and also i wanted to be able to try hires audio + that i cannot get spotify to work i wanted to make squeezelite work. However it seems no matter what i try i cannot

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-17 Thread PasTim
bullitbd wrote: Thanks- root is owner/group, and all have r-x permissions for group and other I have some vague recollection that I had something similar about the home directory. I think I solved it by creating a real squeezeboxserver user, giving it a proper home directory under /home.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-16 Thread PasTim
bullitbd wrote: Following log from squeezelite plugin with LMS 7.8.1 running on ubuntu 10.04: Starting Squeezelite: /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/LocalPlayer/Bin/squeezelite-i386 -f /var/log/squeezeboxserver/localplayer.log No protocol specified No protocol

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread PasTim
adamdea wrote: I'm afraid I don't get a list of devices. If the log you refer to is the one you access from the advanced local player screen then it just yields the text I quoted in my earlier email -starting squeezelite I can't see any indication as to why squeezelite doesn't start.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread PasTim
adamdea wrote: Thanks- when i did this I got ./squeezelite-x86-64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by ./squeezelite-x86-64) ./squeezelite-x86-64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-04 Thread PasTim
adamdea wrote: THANKS VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP- SQUEEZELITE IS NOW RUNNING. In the end I managed to update by enabling the unstable repository in synaptic and then following Tim's suggestion and updating LIBC from the shell using Apt. [NB I then disabled the unstable repository to avoid

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-03 Thread PasTim
adamdea wrote: Sorry i thought I had replied to this earlier but somehow forgot to press send before going to bed. In advancedlocal player it just says that squeezelite is not running. It does not show any devices for output debugging. Squeezelite doesn't show as a player in home or in

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-03 Thread PasTim
adamdea wrote: Thanks Tim in the meantime I've managed to completely crash debian and have reinstalled it. I will try to reinstall LMS and see what happens. Do you think this might also solve the problme of permissions on the music files? It depends how you want to access your music

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-09-02 Thread PasTim
adamdea wrote: I apologise for my cluelessness. I have decided to enter into the world of linux and thought I would have a go running lms under debian wheezy with arch desktop on an old intel desktop 64 bit. I have managed to install LMS which appears to be running fine and appears in

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-07-15 Thread PasTim
guybowden wrote: Hi - I'm just trying to set up squeezelite on my linux squeezebox media server (ubuntu 14.04) If it's a permissions problem, doing Code: sudo gpasswd -a squeezeboxserver audio may help. It adds the audio group to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-07-15 Thread PasTim
guybowden wrote: Thanks for the reply - after adding LMS user to the 'audio' group, I could then view a big list of devises to choose from. Running squeezelite standalone as yourself looks as if it should work. Have you tried it with pulseaudio and the default device? Local player also

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-06-28 Thread PasTim
dls wrote: I also tried with Lubuntu 12.04 - later versions require PAE so don't install on the old Thinkpad. Just for info, 14.04 will install on many old Pentium systems using a 'force PAE' facility. It turns out that many such systems don't advertise their support for PAE, but do work. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-06-27 Thread PasTim
dls wrote: I'm still struggling to get 3 instances of squeezelight working on the same computer. The first one starts up ok, second third report [17:00:48.972562] alsa_open:313 buffer: 40 period: 4 - buffer size: 1764 period size: 441 [17:00:48.975978] ALSA snd_pcm_hw_prepare:559

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-06-18 Thread PasTim
pierreh wrote: Hello Triode, How can I know the mac address of each USB port on my computer (PC i386) ? You can make them up. All that matters is that they are different. So 00:00:00:00:00:01 and 02 and 03 work for me. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-06-14 Thread PasTim
Triode wrote: I've updated Squeezelite to 1.6.3 and rebuilt the binaries on the project home page (squeezelite-downloads on googlecode) This is a bugfix release which includes the following changes since the last binary builds ... I just downloaded the source and compiled

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-06-14 Thread PasTim
JackOfAll wrote: Tim, I've already had one go at explaining what is going on with CPU usage in another thread. The long and the short of it being that if you want to make meaningful comparisums of CPU % usage on Linux, best make sure you are not using the ondemand governor. 100% of a CPU

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-06-13 Thread PasTim
ralphy wrote: Or you could revert the change (957c6c7fcbdf345245c91ba9bb185d45e7995688) to squeezelite which enabled soxr openmp support. I've attached a patch file to do it. From the squeezelite source directory patch -p 0 -i revert-openmp-support.patch.txt and rebuild. Thanks -

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