Snakeoil Gear Isolation Beta Series

[agent_kith]

Welcome back to the online world!

Not quite there yet. My monthly quota is going to reset tomorrow, so until then I'll still be on 1024 Kbps/1024Kbps. And to top it off my internet woes is back (after about 2 weeks of bliss). Upload speed is now back into dark ages. Glad that we have a sponsor paying for the server, and I have moved most of the services to that new server, but some stuffs are still being hosted at home (because better CPU power compared to the VPS). Slow upload from me means slow download for you guys.

This is the "cheaper, better, faster" network Australia has.

If you get it running in Alpha4, that would be good. With both 16.04 and 20.04 running on VirtualBox on Win laptop, I should be able to test things rapidly using snapshots. I hope the virtual instances are good enough to compare relative SQ.  Otherwise, may have try VirtualBox on NUC.

The kernel isn't optimised for running in a virtual environment but it will do. I'm running Promox (Another hypervisor) myself to test many things on Snakeoil.

Yes, can upload Mpd 0.22.3.  Interesting that while I prefer 0.22.3 for my reference piano piece, 0.21.25 has a better sound stage for other music!   

This will be music your way. I wouldn't be surprised when folks have a different playlist for seperate versions of the playback software. This is why moving forward every new release of MPD (and Squeezelite) will have it's own modules... The firmware will always have a newer version, but folks can upload older versions if they like their sonic signature.

This is really the biggest mystery, I still have no logical reasonings why different versions of MPD can be different. The source code is akin to the skin and bones of a body, but the soul is somehow different and there is no apparent correlation I can identify.


Edit: BTW, I installed the new alpha 3 over my existing Jetway rig (running 1.1.x), and MPD 0.22.3 shows up . Not entirely sure what's happening, but I might tweak the install script to make it more fool proof in Alpha 4.