Snakeoil Gear Isolation Beta Series

[Snoopy8]

16.04/1.1.11 to 1.2 Alpha3

• TOP shows load nearly double of 1.1.11, any reason why?  My NUC has plenty in reserve, but for other people with low powered units, this may be a problem.
  

Give it a few minutes (or hours).. It might be trying to collate the music database (which is rather I/O intensive).. All should be good once that completes.

I am on 20.04! Maybe someone else should upgrade their 16.04/1.1.11 system and test this out?
 

Install 20.04 & 1.2 Alpha3

• Not an issue in itself, but installing 20.04 takes some time, especially with the security updates, compared with very trim SnakeOil 16.04
  

This is actually an issue. Because it will be running some additional systems services which I don't really want. This will be fixed in the WebApp in the future (probably 1.2.1) as a system tweak (aka in Snakeoil menu)

When I said not an issue, I meant it was working without errors. Can live with it, because it does away with your huge issue to getting various installs working.
 

• Have separate USB card.  Needed to manually remove hw:0,0 and add hw:1,0 to get ALSA to work
  

That is likely going to be the new behaviour for now. It seems even when disabling onboard audio, secondary audio cards always start as device 1.... But for some reason after a few weeks it will revert back to 0... I'm not exactly sure what happens here, but might re-tweak the whole audio setup in the future in the hope I can get rid of this.

Can live with this.
 

• Mympd not working
  

Can you SSH into the machine, and sudo to root. As root, run '/usr/local/bin/mympd' and tell me what it says?

For some reasons I have problems getting this to work across 14.04, 16.04 and 20.04.

04:27:38 INFO mympd Starting myMPD 6.11.0
04:27:38 INFO mympd Libmympdclient 1.0.5 based on libmpdclient 2.20.0
04:27:38 INFO mympd Mongoose 6.18
04:27:38 INFO mympd Parsing config file: /etc/mympd.conf
04:27:38 INFO mympd Stickers are disabled, disabling sticker cache
04:27:38 INFO mympd Setting loglevel to ERROR
04:27:48 ERROR mpdworker MPD error: sticker database is disabled (9)
04:27:48 ERROR mpdworker Update of smart playlist myMPDsmart-bestRated failed .
04:27:48 ERROR mpdworker MPD error: sticker database is disabled (9)
04:27:48 ERROR mpdworker Update of smart playlist myMPDsmart-mostPlayed failed
 

• CPUSet not installed on restore
  

Whoops! Forgot about that!! I suck.. I will fix this in the next installer.

Also: No tasks are running in (user), please file a bug report and state the music players you are using.