giulio;689367 Wrote: > You can download my tarball from > http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/gfella/squeezeplay/squeezeplay.html and > untar into a directory /opt/squeezeplay > > It works on ubuntu and voyage, so I expect it to work on most flavours > of Debian. > I wanted to run Squeezeplay on my ancient Sony laptop (running Debian Wheezy) on occasions. I wasn't particularly concerned to be able to run at best quality, but just have it run at all! I had got guilio's tarball working on my dual-boot desktop with ubuntu, but thought I'd try a new version of Squeezeplay on Debian. This turned out to be a waste of time, as follows.
I tried the Windows version on Wine, but couldn't get any sound, and had crashes. I then tried the latest build tarball from Logitech. That had display corruption problems which made it unusable. I tried to compile the latest source from Logitech. I could not get beyond the FLAC__ENCODE.... problems lauret mentioned in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91834&highlight=compile+squeezeplay&page=2. The suggested fix there (compiling the flac encoder) didn't work for me and I had to give up. So I thought I give this tarball a try again, this time on my Debian laptop. It works a treat. No display problems. The sound took a bit longer to fix (due mainly to my inability to read what I have done properly). As referred to elsewhere one has to avoid pulseaudio by modifiying /opt/squeezeplay/bin/squeezeplay.sh. Comment out the ./jive at the end and add the ALSA_CONFIG.. line as shown: Code: -------------------- ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/share/alsa/alsa-nopulse.conf ./jive #./jive -------------------- Create /usr/share/alsa/alsa-nopulse.conf from /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf with one change. My Debian system has a slightly different alsa.conf to the Ubuntu systems referred to elsewhere. I ended up changing this to refer to a new, empty, directory called "/alsa-nopulse.conf.d/", since I'm not really sure what the code here is doing. The original alsa.conf.d directory on my system contains pulse configuration files. My new alsa-nopulse.conf contains, at the start: Code: -------------------- # # ALSA library configuration file # # pre-load the configuration files @hooks [ { func load files [ { @func concat strings [ { @func datadir } "/alsa-nopulse.conf.d/" #"/alsa.conf.d/" ] } "/etc/asound.conf" "~/.asoundrc" ] errors false } ] -------------------- where /usr/share/alsa/alsa-nopulse.conf.d is an empty directory. This is probably unnecessary, but it works. So thanks very much to giulio for efforts in creating a tarball that works on multiple linux systems. -- PasTim VortexBox Midi, FLACs 16 or 24 bit. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. Old wireless laptop controls the server using Chrome. Squeezeplay on PCs in other rooms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93505 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
