I have contributed to this software so I decided to put it here in the bazaar.
I didn't add it earlier as I wanted the software to settle down and be refined a bit first, it's running pretty smoothly now and is proving to be robust and useful.
Available from
Silk: CuteStudio Ltd. SeeDeClip4: a DeClipping Multiuser Digital Music Server over HTML5.
The free bit is everything useful.
The paid bit is for declipping as it streams. This money pays for (a small fraction of!) the R&D.
It's been around for a while in various forms but recently I have it running nicely on a Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B) and it also now features some great simulated Vu meters 😀.
Which is rather cool. These meters are on the 'slave' page.
With this system you can store your music files and run the server on any PC/Mac/Linux/Pi - even a noisy one in the garage, then you can use any tablet, phone or laptop (the bend-back laptops like the Lenevo 711 work well) next to your HiFi with a USB/Toslink converter, and then use any tablet/phone/mac/pc as a remote control so you can choose the tracks, playlists, DJ list, pause and level from your listening position.
You can also install it and use it on the one PC/Mac/Linux but that's not so interesting.
It serves either direct from disk, processed as WAV (many devices can only play WAV so this gives you a wider format access in your library) or processed with de-clipping and an experimental decompression.
It can read wav, flac, mp3, ogg, m4a and the user can add importers for other formats too. You can specify multiple music directories for it to scan.
It's not a conventional app in that it's not tied to one machine: which is why you can access it from so many devices. For instance the excellent Foobar 2000 is being ported to Android because it's a program, this however is a server like MPD but you access it from any web browser: no client needs to be installed: because HTML5 is the client.
Multiple people can use the server at the same time.
So essentially a good DIY multi-user streaming home audio system is built with:
which creates a nice low power system. It's more snappy on an i7 server but the Pi does a good job and only appears to use 2 or 3 watts so you can leave it on all the time.
You can also use a Pi as a slave and the hdmi will go to a TV for when you want to see what it's doing, the Chromium browser on Raspbian is quite capable of acting as a SeeDeClip client as it's a fully featured HTML5 browser.
Enjoy!
I didn't add it earlier as I wanted the software to settle down and be refined a bit first, it's running pretty smoothly now and is proving to be robust and useful.
Available from
Silk: CuteStudio Ltd. SeeDeClip4: a DeClipping Multiuser Digital Music Server over HTML5.
The free bit is everything useful.
The paid bit is for declipping as it streams. This money pays for (a small fraction of!) the R&D.
It's been around for a while in various forms but recently I have it running nicely on a Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B) and it also now features some great simulated Vu meters 😀.
Which is rather cool. These meters are on the 'slave' page.
With this system you can store your music files and run the server on any PC/Mac/Linux/Pi - even a noisy one in the garage, then you can use any tablet, phone or laptop (the bend-back laptops like the Lenevo 711 work well) next to your HiFi with a USB/Toslink converter, and then use any tablet/phone/mac/pc as a remote control so you can choose the tracks, playlists, DJ list, pause and level from your listening position.
You can also install it and use it on the one PC/Mac/Linux but that's not so interesting.
It serves either direct from disk, processed as WAV (many devices can only play WAV so this gives you a wider format access in your library) or processed with de-clipping and an experimental decompression.
It can read wav, flac, mp3, ogg, m4a and the user can add importers for other formats too. You can specify multiple music directories for it to scan.
It's not a conventional app in that it's not tied to one machine: which is why you can access it from so many devices. For instance the excellent Foobar 2000 is being ported to Android because it's a program, this however is a server like MPD but you access it from any web browser: no client needs to be installed: because HTML5 is the client.
Multiple people can use the server at the same time.
So essentially a good DIY multi-user streaming home audio system is built with:
- Raspberry PI3 model b (1GB RAM, 1GHz 4 core) £30 + case £0.99
Running Raspbian on an 8GB micro SD at £8 - Usb disk, 500GB, £36 (eBay etc)
- SeeDeClip4 free edition £0
which creates a nice low power system. It's more snappy on an i7 server but the Pi does a good job and only appears to use 2 or 3 watts so you can leave it on all the time.
You can also use a Pi as a slave and the hdmi will go to a TV for when you want to see what it's doing, the Chromium browser on Raspbian is quite capable of acting as a SeeDeClip client as it's a fully featured HTML5 browser.
Enjoy!
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