Snakeoil ISO File Version 0.1.4 (Cryo Treatment)

[agent_kith]

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I would love to try the snake oil tab to test the source clocks, but I can't find it on the main page.

I have sent you a PM.
 

I just checked my memory usage, it actually cached to almost full using OS in RAM, but no apparant degradation in sound quality or performance:
 MemoryMemTotal: 8143620 kB
MemFree: 65492 kB
Cached: 7728320 kB
Is that normal?

It's ok, a reason why some system builders recommend buying computers with a lot of RAM. If the system requires it, the computer will free up cache space and let the program use it anyway.
 

I'm wondering if I can turn off the GUI after I load the LiveCD to RAM, maybe there's some performance to be gained from that too... Also, how would I save my settings to the LiveCD and install some players, so that I wouldn't need to input my settings again after reboot?

No GUI is in the todo list. You have two options with booting off a USB.

1. Set up another partition on the USB stick and label it casper-rw. Then modify /boot/grub.cfg and use the 2nd boot option as default
   
2. Install Snakeoil on to another USB, and then use that to boot up.
   

Right now with option 1, GUI will still load, but that will be fixed in the future. With option 2 the OS is always running in text mode. Graphical players will be started from a VNC session.

 

A better question is, would I be able to load into RAM my SSD installation of the OS? That will be awesome, since I will not need a USB drive anymore! And I can make the SSD the media drive with the OS offloaded separately into RAM.

That is possible I think, but I havn't set it up yet. Boot OS into RAM will work if you are using persistent mode.
 

I'm not using DSD, just normal FLAC and APE music sources. I have tried MPD v17, but that one doesn't support APE files. v19 and Git Version works with APE and sound good too. But I like the new dsd-rt player the best.

Nice.