Comments on: Home Audio Server

By: Whites

Whites — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:49:58 +0000

I own a native 266 slug.
I read some guys with Gentoo had problems with mpd & libasound > 1.0.15. So, I decided to downgrade to etch (I was running lenny), and that did the trick. Don’t know if it’s an actual mpd-libasound2 issue, anyway. Now it just works

By: simon

simon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:22:27 +0000

I haven’t used this setup in a while, but I didn’t have performance problems, at least not with mpd. mt-daapd was more efficient though, so try that.

Btw, I have not over-clocked my NSLU.

Since I wrote this article, I have bought both a Squeezebox and a Soundbridge. I like the soundbridge better. The web interface for squeezebox is rather slow, and a NSLU2 isn’t powerful enough to run the server. I kind of like the soundbridge human-interface better too. And it is cheaper…

/Simon

By: Whites

Whites — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:47:31 +0000

I get very poor performances with mpd
Actually, cpu goes to 95-96% and nothing is heard. It’s a default Debian installation, like yours, and you seem to get it working out of the box.
Further, mplayer with flac goes very well, and madplay for mp3 does the job too. In your experience, can it be an mpd issue (0.13.1)?
I’ll give a try to mt-daapd, but I’d like to use mpd…

Thanks

By: A Jackson

A Jackson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:07 +0000

I have mt-daapd running on my NSLU2 running Debian, which works good. Supported by Apple iTune and hardware like the Squeezbox, Rhythmbox etc.

Thought I should mention it.

By: http://josefsson.org/

http://josefsson.org/ — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:08:45 +0000

Actually, I do need a second player for the living room… A stationary display for the artist/track info would be nice.

There seems to be some alternatives though:

Squeezebox: http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html

Pinnacle Soundbridge: http://tinyurl.com/yzj56f

Terratec Noxon 2: http://www.my-noxon.net/sites/noxonflash/

The Squeezebox seems to be about twice as expensive. The web sites for both the SoundBridge and Noxon are rather bad, but the devices seems pretty nice. All three appear to be available locally (Webhallen).

Hm.

By: Patrik Wallström

Patrik Wallström — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:38:34 +0000

Things will get messy if you need two players. That is why my choice was two Squeezebox 3. The downside of this is that you have a web interface to access the central server. But at least the to SB3 has a remote control each. There are other interfaces, but not quite as good as the mpd native clients on the operating systems I use.