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  1. HifiHere, Vortexbox player that is by default installed in Vortexbox does not support gapless playback, but SqueezeSlave does! (http://info.vortexbox.org/tiki-index.php?page=Squeezeslave) I got gapless playback when I installed Squeezeslave as local client, as opposed to Vortexbox player. Interesting is that Vortexbox also has the mpd service running. I wish that Squeezeboxserver supports the client/server interface to MPD. Or that iPeng supports the MPD interface. OR that MPoD improves it's features, MPoD seems an unfinished product, while MPaD looks slick.
  2. I do agree with you, HifiHere, I also started with Vortexbox, then decided that I wanted a lighter setup and re-installed with Debian/Squeezebox. And after some software issues I uninstalled squeezebox and installed mpd. I thought that the sound quality improved, although I can't describe how. And now I'm fiddling with FreeBSD/mpd, and I enjoy it! The sad thing is, though, that on my iPod, MPoD is not as fancy as iPeng for remote control, especially with multiple cd-sets. And I miss Pandora internet radio. (I get introduced to unknown albums by listening to this service) Although my joy of listening to music does not depend on technical specs, I do like to understand the 'under the hood' part and look for improvements. I see now the advantage of a tiny Alix or PogoPlug based system with USB-DAC that has access to a networked fileserver with the music tracks. Such setup makes it easy to re-install and 'play around'.
  3. I checked the LED on the USB DAC, while listening to 44.1/16 a track and you are correct, this gets resampled too. Hm, I thought that with dev.pcm.1.bitperfect=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf I was disabling any resampling. (And I checked that it's set correct with sysctl) Now I'm confused, I need to research for that. I didn't modify any ALSA settings, and I used hw:1,0 in mpd.conf. The music server did not have pulseaudio installed It's a headless system without graphic desktop.
  4. Hello there, I'm a bit reluctant with responding in this forum after learning most from reading. I also don't pretend to be an audiophile expert. I had this idea that OSS was outdated and replaced my the modern ALSA, but from researching I learned that ALSA is a reaction to the licensing changes of OSS years ago. OSS is up to date to modern hardware and available for several operating systems. ALSA is only available for linux. Anyway, I tried to get OSS4 working on my linux system, and it recognized the USB DAC, but couldn't write data to it. So I installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a test system and connected my USB DAC. That worked right away, without any issues. So, I decided to reinstall my Atom based music server with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. The new installation recognized my Music Streamer II right away and I had sound. I found the setting to enable bitperfect sound: Add this lines to /etc/sysctl.conf: dev.pcm.1.bitperfect=1 and ofcourse disable auto_resample for musicpd (mpd on FreeBSD) in mpd.conf. I noticed right away a significant difference with internet streaming, I listen to a classic NPR station and somehow I was misguided about bitrate/samplerate. I had to enable 44100:16:2 resampling in order to listen to this station. With FreeBSD/OSS4 I had nothing special to configure to listen to the same station. And the Music Streamer II shows the LED 96K lit up. The sound quality of this internet stream is so much better, unbelievable! The local stored flac tracks sound so much better too. Yesterday's linux/ALSA sounded dense and stuffed, today's FreeBSD/OS4 sound open and light. I hear the space around the performers, I hear the distance to the cough in the audience. I could not stop listening to my familiar CD's and just sit and enjoy. This is some serious upgrade in audio joy! For me: farewell ALSA, welcome OSS.
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