tomek
pfm Member
I am waiting for Wandboard hardware and started to play with Raspberry Pi.
piCorePlayer installation and configuration was very easy and it was very fast integrated in my Squeezebox world. It recognized my WaveIO/I2S/Buffalo without any problems.
At the begining the sq was not so good, but when i connected my diy ps with TeddySuperreg (which i made for my SBT), than the sound became very nice. Probably the small switched ps was very nasty and was poisoning everything.
Than i set some squeezelite parameters:
realtimepriority=70
alsabuffer = 32
periods =4
output bit depth = 24
streaming buffer input = 2048
streaming buffer output = 2048
I restarted squeezelite after each parameter change and IMHO the difference is small, but noticeable.
Those parameters where adviced by Soundcheck to run squeezelite on SBT instead of the jive(?) graphic gui interface.
The sound now is really good. Today is to late to compare it with my SBT and Daphile and squeezelite running on notebook with thin Linux with rt kernel, but i already know, that it will be one difficult task ...
It is crazy, that something so cheap and so small sounds so good.
My USB cable (Supra) connecting Pi with WaveIO was more expensive than Pi ...
But we don't want any new discussion about USB cables here and please do not ask me if i did blind ABX tests ...
piCorePlayer installation and configuration was very easy and it was very fast integrated in my Squeezebox world. It recognized my WaveIO/I2S/Buffalo without any problems.
At the begining the sq was not so good, but when i connected my diy ps with TeddySuperreg (which i made for my SBT), than the sound became very nice. Probably the small switched ps was very nasty and was poisoning everything.
Than i set some squeezelite parameters:
realtimepriority=70
alsabuffer = 32
periods =4
output bit depth = 24
streaming buffer input = 2048
streaming buffer output = 2048
I restarted squeezelite after each parameter change and IMHO the difference is small, but noticeable.
Those parameters where adviced by Soundcheck to run squeezelite on SBT instead of the jive(?) graphic gui interface.
The sound now is really good. Today is to late to compare it with my SBT and Daphile and squeezelite running on notebook with thin Linux with rt kernel, but i already know, that it will be one difficult task ...
It is crazy, that something so cheap and so small sounds so good.
My USB cable (Supra) connecting Pi with WaveIO was more expensive than Pi ...
But we don't want any new discussion about USB cables here and please do not ask me if i did blind ABX tests ...