Quote from: kipeta on 2013-08-12 12:26:42

"ReplayGain nominally plays at -14 dB relative to full-scale leaving 14 dB of headroom for reproduction of dynamic material"

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I have used "EBU Recommendation R 128" based loudness calculation (23dB headroom recommended) for my own music library.

I think you have been confused by different units. The EBU R128 -23LUFS target level leaves 5dB more headroom than the 89dB ReplayGain target level, not the extra 9dB that you think it does.

However, whereas EBU R128 is designed to be used with a fixed -23LUFS target, all decent ReplayGain player implementations allow the listener to adjust the target volume, and have an option to avoid clipping, because the original ReplayGain proposal specified these things.

Hence it is trivial to run ReplayGain with the same or even more headroom than EBU R128.
It is also trivial to run ReplayGain with less headroom (as little heaedroom as you want = as loud as you want) while also pushing the headroom up automatically (i.e. the volume down automatically) for tracks and/or albums that need it (= clipping prevention).

You can do these things with some EBU R128 implementations too, especially the ones where EBU R128 is used as a drop-in replacement for the original ReplayGain loudness calculation - but these things originate in the ReplayGain specification, and are not in the EBU R128 specification.

Cheers,
David.

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The Squeezebox server (i.e. Daphile) unfortunately does not have yet the decent implementation that allows target volume adjustment. EBU R128 was just easier for me at the time when metaflac didn't support HD files and the EBU R128 volume target level is such that I avoided clipping without additional target volume adjustment (checked the whole library).

• CD ripping supports AccurateRip™ verification (see: www.accuraterip.com)
• CD drive offset calibration added to Settings – CD Ripping (required for AccurateRip™)
• Improvements and bug fixes for Wireless configuration and initialization
• Bug fixes for network drive mounting and RW-mode
• Some package updates (eg. LMS-7.8.0-1380278780)
• Other minor changes and bug fixes

• First 32bit x86 release for i486 and above
• Composer (available only for classical music) and Label tags for ripping
• Shutdown and restart button to main menu
• TRIM support for ext4 SSD partitions
• WLAN HW switch detection (RFKILL; "Connect Wi-Fi: HW switch disabled")
• Bug fixes (eg. some DSF playback fixes) and minor changes

• Fix the playback of music with sample rate not support by audio device
• Include the staging WLAN drivers
• Kernel minor level upgrade
• Bug fixes and minor changes

• WLAN bug fix (WPA2+TKIP and WPA+AES/CCMP AP cases fixed)
• Warm restart speed-up with kexec (default; option for BIOS boot)
• Minor changes and bug fixes

• Bug fixes for CD ripping, multitrack FLAC+CUE problem & NFS mounting
• Multitrack FLAC+CUE problem fix requires "Clear library and rescan everything" rescan (Info tab)
• CD ripping FLAC compression level setting added (default:5)

I was just about to make this exact operating system.... And then i stumbled across this thread and couldnt be happier! Thanks for this, it works as expected. The ONLY feature i want that i can't seem to find is a "library cache" option. As i have a 1tb drive in my netbook running this on my desk, i would love to have the option to slowly copy my library to the netbook automatically when not playing. We have a very patchy wifi connection in our house, im not sure whats in the paint they used but it seems to block damn near everything at about 15 meters / 2 walls. We use network over power and get a few mb/s but for obvious reasons i would like to keep those few MB/s free for my desktop.

Cheers.

I'm not 100% sure if I understood the "library cache" idea. Do you mean that you want keep your music files in two locations (Daphile PC and another PC) and you want to keep those synchronized? Or something else?

Quote from: kipeta on 2013-11-12 08:42:58

I'm not 100% sure if I understood the "library cache" idea. Do you mean that you want keep your music files in two locations (Daphile PC and another PC) and you want to keep those synchronized? Or something else?

Yeah sorry, i meant for the music files to be in both locations, like google music's caching system. I know i can just use rsync or any number of other methods to just "push" my music collection, but i would like to have automatic tag comparisons etc to detect changed tracks and for only those i listen to to take priority and songs that were never played to just be removed and flagged as unplayed or whatever is easiest. (for when i am listening to my flac collection that wont even come close to a 1tb limit).

I have more requests as well... lol.

I haven't looked at the project much (have been busy enjoying music) but if there is a way for me to help development please do let me know.

Here are my other requests:

Adjustable buffer in kb (ram buffer aka foobar whole file buffer) OR Adjustable buffer in songs eg. buffer next X songs in playlist for seamless gapless playback/ in case my wifi drops out for a famous 10 minute stint again.

Easy way to install google music, or just the repo and dependencies added by default, i don't want to touch anything until i know how your specific setup works. I have never touched a squeezebox before.

Gapless playback. Not sure if it should work or if it is even implememnted, but it doesn't seem to on my netbook.

Thanks!

PS. Free bump over on head-fi, this project deserves it. Feel free to reply over there with a copy paste.

Replay gain doesn't seem to work at all at least between same album tracks that I know are gapless in foobar. Does it not work on mp3? Or should I just try flac?

Working great, loads fast and my radio seems to be responding really nice after I started using this. Would like to have the option to remove devices not being used from the Music Folder.

Thanks or a great product.

NH

Quote from: NappyHead on 2013-11-19 14:48:16

Working great, loads fast and my radio seems to be responding really nice after I started using this. Would like to have the option to remove devices not being used from the Music Folder.

Thanks or a great product.

NH

Thanks for your feedback.

I could not quite understand what did you mean with "Would like to have the option to remove devices not being used from the Music Folder"?

Have tried the "Settings -> Storages" configurations? The "Root Prefix" is such that you can limit usage of the disk/partition to one particular directory.

Daphile looks pretty slick!

Question: If I wipe my hard drive and let the software create the DaphileData partition, is that partition going to remain untouched through future software updates?

The OS only seemed to find USB volumes during the boot process, else I was being too impatient and not waiting long enough.

Initially, I seemed to have problems playing via my Benchmark DAC 2 HGC, though the software recognizes it correctly.  I got it playing after a couple of reboots. But I previously found that this DAC is iffy with pre 3.10 kernels, and only seems to work as a UAC 2 device on Linux systems.

One of my radio stations (at Ottava.jp) doesn't work. It seems to use Windows Media.

No luck with my Realtek RTL8191 wifi.

What's your reference PC hardware BTW? Maybe easier if I just buy exactly the same thing as you?

Thanks for doing this, keep up the good work.

How do I set static IP

NH

Quote from: NappyHead on 2013-11-20 21:03:32

How do I set static IP

NH

I have not implemented "Static IP" setting because I don't have proper recovery mechanism for faulty configuration yet.

Could you achieve it with proper router configuration "Static Leases" under DHCP Server configuration.

Noticed my squeezebox radio was offline went to connect to server stuck at "Loading the media server"

Looked at monitor and screen at "pnp 00:09: can't evaluate _CRS: 12311"

Any help?