2013-01-17, 03:32
Ok I have a preliminary version working with squeezelite doing the playback - it will be a choice, the old model with squeezeslave plus display, or this new offering with squeezelite...which, being a headless player, has no display option....
So far so good, but it makes clear the lack of the display is a bit of an issue....will need to work on the controls a lot more to make it useful. Missing is a pause, some indication of playing volume, repeat etc. Volume adjustment is too slow and requires a lot of button presses so probably will make it go up and down in units of 5 or whatever.
Anyway...it's coming (if anybody cares). I *believe* this opens up high def audio and potentially spotify etc
According to the developer:
It should support the following:
- headless playback
- gapless, high res support, direct streaming support (works with my Spotify plugin)
- flac, mp3 and pcm (wav/aiff), aac/mp4, ogg playback;
- usb dacs with support for direct playback to the hardware device (supports S24_3LE output format)
- sync
- tunable buffer sizes
- ability to disable codecs (if you like to only use wav, then only enable pcm other codecs will not be loaded)
So far so good, but it makes clear the lack of the display is a bit of an issue....will need to work on the controls a lot more to make it useful. Missing is a pause, some indication of playing volume, repeat etc. Volume adjustment is too slow and requires a lot of button presses so probably will make it go up and down in units of 5 or whatever.
Anyway...it's coming (if anybody cares). I *believe* this opens up high def audio and potentially spotify etc
According to the developer:
It should support the following:
- headless playback
- gapless, high res support, direct streaming support (works with my Spotify plugin)
- flac, mp3 and pcm (wav/aiff), aac/mp4, ogg playback;
- usb dacs with support for direct playback to the hardware device (supports S24_3LE output format)
- sync
- tunable buffer sizes
- ability to disable codecs (if you like to only use wav, then only enable pcm other codecs will not be loaded)