Working on next version of Snakeoil (1.4.4). The UX is kind of ancient to be honest, I might upgrade the WebApp to support material UI, which has a "switch" widget, and that widget just feels more logical than a checkbox.

   

As such it will be a on/off switch instead of a checkbox. When switched on, your Snakeoil OS will automatically attach the machine to your Pro subscription and enable the realtime kernel feature. The kernel will then show up in the list of kernels to boot from.

This is the improved UX when switching Snakeoil from stable vs experimental (i.e. every version discussed here).

   

Again I feel this can be improved with the use of Material UI. This is still work in progress - I think it's a good idea to have individual holds for each package (i.e. you can update Snakeoil WebApp without updating the players, or the other way round, or disable updates for both packages completely). This means you can still update the OS without updating Snakeoil, and what is more important - you can also update Snakeoil without updating the Ubuntu OS itself. <- I know what I am saying sounds confusing right now, hopefully I can work this out in the UI.

Test build is not released yet though as I want to add in more features before releasing it. So watch this space. Overall these changes will (or should) make it easier to tweak your Snakeoil PC to do exactly the way you want it.

I have now tried to install SnakeoilOS twice on two different ubutnu based machines with the same response. I am not sure what i am missing.

first device was dual boot so after reading i get it, does not work. When i boot to the ubuntu drive i just get a text login which i can log into but nothing else.

other device was just normal ubutnu (both at current versions) and that also just takes me to a text login, which i can log into but nothing else.

I am not sure if i am missing a step.
EDIT: Since the ubutnu login still works is there a way to get ubuntu os working again? i learned i can use startx to start the gui. Now to just figure out how to ger snakeoilos to work.

I have been able to get Moode to work on a rpi and then was looking to try snakeoil but it seems i am missing something.

Recently I'm building a Pi 5 music server for fun and testing.  I've built a Pi 4B Roon bridge for USB DAC before, that's much more straightforward.  This time is Pi 5 + Analogue audio hat (also digital audio hat, but not both are used at the same time), and NVMe SSD hat.  Above all,  Pi 5 itself is a power hunger.

Hardware:

From the Pi 4B, I found that adding EMI absorber inside the metal chassis can yield significant improvement for clarity, dynamic and contrast and the background is darker.  The EMI absorber I've used is https://www.digikey.hk/en/products/detai...97/5823559.  I've used it in most of my gears since 10+ years ago.  It's not only isolating the EMI from outside, also absorbing stray reflection of EMI inside the chassis.  It's been once briefly discussed here before https://forums.snakeoil-os.net/Thread-EM...ide-the-PC.

Also mechanical vibration isolation can't be skipped, particularly as Pi itself is very very light.  As shown in below pics, I used cloned spring foot.  It's helpful to prevent sound deterioration esp when the playback is loud.  In my experience, spring foot works the best in my setting, in comparing with spike and disc.  (If the gear is very heavy, e.g. big transformer, hifi rack, I use bearing foot) Besides, I also putting something heavy (laminated carbon fibre bricks in my case) on the top of the chassis to minimise its vibration caused by various reasons.  

In past I used to use some OCC (Ohno Continuous Casting Process) wires as DC cables and running them in pairs to greatly, further reduces the resistance.  It improves dynamic significantly.  In my case, I get these wires from an OCC XLR cables.

The above is not bleeding the users but very effective.  I've tested and kept using them over many years.  

你好！1.4.3版本修改网关后，保存。重启不生效！

So I've been trying for a while to get ABCDE working in SOS .   The main issue is getting LMS to read wherever the output folder is set to in ABCDE.  This would seem to be a simple issue,  but I cannot get LMS to read the output folder I set.  (trust me I have played a lot of games with permissions at this point) ... my next Idea is to set up a bind Mount.  Is it possible for the REST interface library page/function to allow me to do that kind of Mount?    If not,  how can I use REST to Mount a local folder?

Thanx

Tim