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Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - agent_kith - 14-Apr-2019 Introduction Another month, another release. Release was delayed by a few weeks as I spent most of the month trying to get the Meraki network to co-exist peacefully with my existing Unifi network stack (tl;dr: never ever mix different brands if you want to save yourself from grief). All up this is more bug fix. But there is some notable new features:
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RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - Bromf - 14-Apr-2019 Confirmed working... ![]() ![]() RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - Gigipack - 15-Apr-2019 Hello boys, another great job for the Snakeoil Squad ! I use also Daphile and Volumio, but Snakeoil has a "magic" sound for me ! For the future, have you thought about the function of upsampling the audio, example 24/96 or higher ? Bye from Gigi - Padova (Italy) RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - agent_kith - 15-Apr-2019 (15-Apr-2019, 07:58 AM)Gigipack Wrote: Hello boys, another great job for the Snakeoil Squad ! I use also Daphile and Volumio, but Snakeoil has a "magic" sound for me !We can't claim the credit for this. The sound quality mainly comes from MPD, Squeezelite/LMS. Snakeoil OS merely optmises the OS to make these players shine even more. Upsampling audio is done by the players, not the OS. All the players can perform upsampling. With squeezelite you can specify this in the options field. With MPD you have to enable custom ALSA configuration, and then specify the output accordingly (using the format option). If you have a fast processor, HQPlayer (and I believe Roon) can do more. RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - mkysimes - 16-Apr-2019 This is awesome! Bubbleupnp can now see MPD/upmpdcli on the pi and now I'm having fun switching between all of the different options! Thank you for this great update! I'll definately be toying around with this for a while, but I did find something kind of strange in BubbleUPNP. When I use it to stream tidal to squeezelite Bubbleupnp correctly reports that flac format is being streamed. When I stream to MPD/upmpdcli it says 320kbps. I did check the renderer settings but there is none available when connected to MPD/upmpdcli. Strange, but it still sounds pretty good. I will investigate this and see if I can find anything in why flac wont stream to MPD/upmpdcli. If anyone else has noticed this or knows a workaround I'm all ears. in the meantime, I'm loving this software! Thanks again for all of your hard work! RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - agent_kith - 16-Apr-2019 (16-Apr-2019, 05:14 AM)mkysimes Wrote: This is awesome! Bubbleupnp can now see MPD/upmpdcli on the pi and now I'm having fun switching between all of the different options!320 kbps could be the compressed bit rate. That could mean FLAC, it could also mean MP3. MP3 at 320 kBps is not really discernable for some people but there is a bit of quality loss with trained ears. Hopefully your DAC will tell you what it is? e.g. with my DAC I know it's MP3 if the bitrate is 44100, but at 24 or 32 bits (Cannot remember which at this stage). But if playing redbook it will be 44100 at 16 bits. RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - mkysimes - 16-Apr-2019 (16-Apr-2019, 07:56 AM)agent_kith Wrote:Yeah, it's strange the way Bubbleupnp handles streams differently for each renderer. My dac reads 44100 at 24 bits but it doesn't give me any more info like compression rate or container. And that stays static weather Bubbleupnp is showing Flac or whatever. The only time it changes is obviously if I change the sample rate to say 192 khz or something.(16-Apr-2019, 05:14 AM)mkysimes Wrote: This is awesome! Bubbleupnp can now see MPD/upmpdcli on the pi and now I'm having fun switching between all of the different options!320 kbps could be the compressed bit rate. That could mean FLAC, it could also mean MP3. MP3 at 320 kBps is not really discernable for some people but there is a bit of quality loss with trained ears. What is strange is that using Squeezelite, an Amazon Firestick, or just local (streaming directly to the phone), Bubble is showing as it should: FLAC - 44.1 - 16bit - Stereo. Streaming to Volumio results in a variable (changing) bitrate, usually between 600 and 1200 kbps. Streaming to MPD in Snakeoil shows 320 kbps or below. I had one song report 96 kbps but it certainly didn't sound that low of quality. Must be an MPD/UPMPDCLI thing. I'll do some more reading when I get some time and report back. -Mike RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - agent_kith - 17-Apr-2019 (16-Apr-2019, 10:31 PM)mkysimes Wrote: Yeah, it's strange the way Bubbleupnp handles streams differently for each renderer. My dac reads 44100 at 24 bits but it doesn't give me any more info like compression rate or container. And that stays static weather Bubbleupnp is showing Flac or whatever. The only time it changes is obviously if I change the sample rate to say 192 khz or something.That 44.1/24 is likely MP3. Let me know what you find. Unfortunately despite a four day long weekend coming up, I doubt I can test this out myself. But if I do, will let you know what happen. RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - agent_kith - 29-Apr-2019 A few weeks back, I remember somebody told me there is a problem with powering off USB ports in the Snakeoil menu. I finally took a look at it, confirmed the problem and commited a fix. USB powering on/off will work properly again in Blind Testing U5. RE: Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.4 (Blind Testing Update 4) - Dmitry Novikov - 07-May-2019 (29-Apr-2019, 06:41 PM)agent_kith Wrote: A few weeks back, I remember somebody told me there is a problem with powering off USB ports in the Snakeoil menu. I finally took a look at it, confirmed the problem and commited a fix. USB powering on/off will work properly again in Blind Testing U5. That was me. Will wait for U5! |