Moode Audio Player for Raspberry Pi

[Zootalaws]

^^^ woot!

I now officially need more Pi3!

On that note, seeedstudio is having a sale on Pi3 for US$35 Seeed

 

[Botte]

Hi Botte,

What model Pi are u using?

And, are u using the USB (UAC2) work around?

-Tim

Hi Tim,

No luck with the UAC2 fix on the occasional click noise.

Should I try overclocking the pi3 ?

Thanks,

botte

 

[TimCurtis]

Hi @Botte,

Any audio glitches when using Standard Linux kernel and TS scheduling policy?

-Tim

 

[Botte]

Hi @Botte,

Any audio glitches when using Standard Linux kernel and TS scheduling policy?

-Tim

Hi Tim,

No glitches on Standard or LL Kernels, but they don't sound as good.

My buddy said I should think of it like listening to records. Sounds great but has some pops and ticks

Oh and like I said in a past post it's not that bad on TS. It's very distracting on the RR and FIFO

Thanks,

 

[TwoSeventy]

If I bypass the software volume control does this also bypass the ALSA setting (currently defaulted to 96). I am hoping for bitperfect playback to my USB DAC? Fantastic piece of software BTW

 

[TimCurtis]

Hi @TwoSeventy,

I assume your DAC has its own physical volume control.

In this case set MPD Volume control to "disabled". This will automatically set ALSA volume to 0dB (100%) and it will remain at that setting unless you manually change it via Audio config, ALSA volume setting.

-Tim

 

[TimCurtis]

Hi,

Just a bit more info on newly released Raspbian Stretch and Stretch-Lite.
Raspberry Pi gets a major OS update -- download Raspbian Stretch now!

One thing that caught my eye was that the BT stack apparently supports ALSA again, and if I recall from looking through the Stretch repo a while back there are new versions of ALSA and other audio components.

I'll post updates and screen shots after I complete a new build of moodeOS using Stretch-Lite

-Tim

 

[TwoSeventy]

Hi @TwoSeventy,

I assume your DAC has its own physical volume control.

In this case set MPD Volume control to "disabled". This will automatically set ALSA volume to 0dB (100%) and it will remain at that setting unless you manually change it via Audio config, ALSA volume setting.

-Tim

Thanks for confirming this. My dac feeds my amplifier where I control the volume. Everything is working fine

 

[remy1961]

Hi Phil,

Nice I see the BT stack is back to using ALSA so there is hope.

-Tim

Hi. What does it mean in ordinary people language? That this might allow moode audio to stream to BT headphones?

Remy

 

[Serverbaboon]

Hi,

Just a bit more info on newly released Raspbian Stretch and Stretch-Lite.
Raspberry Pi gets a major OS update -- download Raspbian Stretch now!

One thing that caught my eye was that the BT stack apparently supports ALSA again, and if I recall from looking through the Stretch repo a while back there are new versions of ALSA and other audio components.

I'll post updates and screen shots after I complete a new build of moodeOS using Stretch-Lite

-Tim

Watch out for upmpdcli, not sure if jf has built stretch packages yet. May need to compile.

 

[Primalgeek]

Cant save to playlist after updating

Good afternoon, I backed up my playlists before I did the last update to 3.7 and copied them back to the playlist folder after the update: Var/lib/mpd/playlists

When I try to save more songs to those playlists they don't seem to save/update the new songs.

Any thoughts?

Thank you
Charles

 

[DRONE7]

Hi Tim, Autoplay on start seems to be disabled on shutdown-restart.

The UI comes up blank in the playback tab but router activity shows the last playing webradio stream is restarted only there is no output.

If I select the play icon then the tab is populated and audio commences.
Audio also starts if I use the ir remote.

Seems I can reset autoplay by selecting it in the configuration page and it will survive reboots but once Moode is shut down and powered off then a cold start kills autoplay and blanks the playback tab.

Is there a file I can access over ssh to check if the autoplay setting is being cleared at boot ?

 

[swizzle]

Good afternoon, I backed up my playlists before I did the last update to 3.7 and copied them back to the playlist folder after the update: Var/lib/mpd/playlists

When I try to save more songs to those playlists they don't seem to save/update the new songs.

Any thoughts?

Permissions and owner? Ssh into your Pi and try doing:

sudo chmod 644 /var/lib/mpd/playlists/*.m3u
sudo chown mpd:audio /var/lib/mpd/playlists/*.m3u

 

[DRONE7]

Further to Moode Audio Player for Raspberry Pi

I can confirm that this is only a problem for webradio streams. Local files autostart fine. So it seems this is network related and as I recall I had a problem once before like this but on a PiB....

It was the os not waiting long enough for the eth0 check and was resolved by increasing the wait time.

I looked in worker.php for the line to change and think I've found it but it is different from the last instance... just checking then which value/s to increase...

(using Pi3, tried RR and LL and Std kernels, same for all. Running from usb not sd... so usb speed could be the bottleneck ? or maybe it's my network...)

 

[TimCurtis]

Hi Bob,

Default is 3 iterations in the loop with 3 sec delay between each iteration which yields up to 9 secs. You can either bump the number of iterations for example $i <= 6, or increase the delay for example usleep(6000000);

-Tim

 

[DRONE7]

I will experiment.... though it says 'read only filesystem' when I tried... and won't write the changes

 

[alexandrub]

I have two audio players made with Raspberry Pi.
1. Raspberry Pi 3 and PiDAC+
2. Raspberry Pi Zero + USB Hub + Usb sound card + TEW648UB WIFI usb adaptor
The first one runs curent with Volumio, second runs Pimusicbox
I tried to put and run Moodle on both players, did not work. Can you help me ?
On the first one, Moodle boot, i can configure, bud did not start playing

 

[TimCurtis]

I will experiment.... though it says 'read only filesystem' when I tried... and won't write the changes

Hi Bob,

Email me and I'll send you procedure to un-squash the file system.

-Tim

 

[philrandal]

Hi Bob,

Email me and I'll send you procedure to un-squash the file system.

-Tim

Possible future enhancement :


Advanced system settings - squashfs status with a button to squash/unsquash as appropriate

 

[TimCurtis]

Hi Phil,

Sure it could be done but it would reduce the robustness of moOde and create an unwanted support vector.

If you are willing to place your email address under the button though, I'll think about it ;-)

-Tim