v0.1.5-pre-release-20160617b

[agent_kith]

I have tested the new 64 bit pre-release version (snakeoil-0.1.5-pre-release-20160617b-amd64.fw)
Not sure what exectly has been changed but in my setup it decreased the sound quality. For some reason it is more harsh than the previous prerelease (snakeoil-0.1.5-pre-release-20160613-amd64). Switched back to the previous prerelease. Of course all setups are different so YMMV.

Hope this helps! :-)

The software players binaries themselves are not changed, only the web interface is. In theory that shouldn't affect the sound quality, but when testing different firmware images at another person's place. Subjectively it does, which is strange and puzzling.

That's about the time when I implemented the "Clear Cache" feature. Every time you change a software player, or update the firmware that function is run automatically. But it's hard to tell if it works or not.

Can't even theorise a proper reason: perhaps it's the sector stored on the SSD/USB/storage, perhaps it's the memory location where the program is stored. Just can't think of a solid enough plausible reason to find the root cause. 

And interesting enough, this affects people differently, e.g. I may find firmware X works best on my system, others will prefer firmware Y. Ditto with different software players and kernel combinations. Everybody just prefer different thing as their listening techniques are never the same.

That's my design goal of Snakeoil, it provides you the flexibility of choice ,  the power to choose. Because in my mind I believe everybody is unique. 

• For tweakers, Snakeoil has exposed enough things on the web interface for you to tune the Operating System to the way you want it.
  
• For people who aren't tweakers, Snakeoil is just simple and easy enough to not overwhelm (still a work in progress).