Daphile - Audiophile Music Server & Player OS

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#4,683
So I was experiencing very short, intermittent dropouts using an old Acer mini laptop with an intel Atom N450 in it. This system has absolutely abysmal levels of performance as a PC, but I after using it for a "pi-hole" for a couple months, figured it could handle Daphile. To see if it was the problem, I bought a Dell laptop with an I3 4005-U in it. That was it! There is a minimal level of performance necessary to run Daphile on X86 silicon. Passmark of "193" isnt it. (AMD Ryzen 5 5500 Passmark is 19,722, the I3 4005-U, FWIW is 1,636)

This Dell system hangs on "waiting for network connection" - but only when I have my USB to I2S converter board plugged in. It's always something! Not a biggie, as I leave it running 24/7 anyway and as long as the power doesnt go out...it works. I'm just curious how that could have come about and, if there's something simple like a BIOS setting I could change to fix?

I did "shotgun" the drive from the old system to the Dell, which also has double the memory (4G vs 2)
 
#4,685
Labdoc said:
Daphile LMS update needed to fix Qobuz issue
See https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97146-Qobuz-com-streaming-plugin/page205
I am using the latest Daphile beta and cannot access Qobuz Goodies (PDF of album booklet). According to M.Herger, this needs LMS 8.3, but Daphile is back on LMS 8.2.1. Could you please update Daphile.
Great software -- thanks so much
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There is a new version of qobuz plugin available in daphile. May be it will fix the issues you mentioned ...
 
#4,687
Hi!
I wanted to use the Daphile again after a long break, but now it won’t let me to navigate into my external usb HDD. Audioplayer-Music folder-USB drives and then the the program crashes. From the "albums" and other menus it plays well. The external usb HDD shows as locked.
I always used the Daphile live usb, I didn't installed. It has worked perfectly so far.
Does anyone have an idea to solve the problem?
 
#4,689
I'm really loving daphile and taking it to the next level. My last upgrade was to an amd 5800x with 16gb ddr4 ram and jcat xe USB card. The sound was a significant improvement on Intel. I'm now looking to upgrade to an amd 7600x and 16gb 6000mhz ddr5 ram. My question is should I wait for the second release of am4 chips with 3d cache? How much does daphile make use of cache memory?

I realise daphile only needs 2GB ram but with ddr5 you can only get minimum 2 x 8gb.
 
#4,690
Triplefun said:
I'm really loving daphile and taking it to the next level. My last upgrade was to an amd 5800x with 16gb ddr4 ram and jcat xe USB card. The sound was a significant improvement on Intel. I'm now looking to upgrade to an amd 7600x and 16gb 6000mhz ddr5 ram. My question is should I wait for the second release of am4 chips with 3d cache? How much does daphile make use of cache memory?

I realise daphile only needs 2GB ram but with ddr5 you can only get minimum 2 x 8gb.
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Are you playing from memory? There has been discussion in the past about whether that makes an audible difference. If you are, then I guess it is just about possible that you'd need lots of memory, but it seems difficult to accept that you could need that much. Early on, there was a lot of discussion about whether paradoxically the minimum RAM was best, as it was for some other players... If you can tell the difference, I suspect you must have amazing ears and an amazing analogue part of your system - congratulations!
 
#4,691
Any way to get a VST "plug-in" to run in the Daphile environment? I'd love to have certain types of effects processing available in Daphile, instead of having to run a buffered USB cable across the room to my laptop, running windows, where in EqualizerAPO they have such a facility.

Personally, I'd think it would really set Daphile apart from other players if it could do this. VST effects in the signal path - as they are used in a DAW environment - is quite a futuristic thing.
 
#4,692
SRMcGee said:
Folks:

I have a really strange problem that I cannot fix that seems to be connected to Daphile. I have two Daphile servers and a Synology NAS. The servers have no local music storage; everything is on the NAS. I discovered that one of the CDs burned on the NAS was corrupted (each song on the CD started out fine but, mid-song, switched to an entirely different song on a different CD by another artist), so I deleted the corrupted CD from the NAS. I then rescanned both servers' library using the "Clear library and rescan everything" option expecting to no longer see the corrupted CD. I also rebooted both servers. The CD has not been reburned onto the NAS. Daphile's File Manager no longer lists the deleted CD but Daphile's Audio Player still lists it. I have confirmed the corrupted CD was deleted from the NAS (it was deleted from the Synology app and confirmed as deleted using Finder). Here's the really weird part: the deleted, corrupted CD can still be played from Daphile's Audio Player, and the songs are still corrupted.

What is going on?

Regards,
Scott
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Well either it's magic, or the servers ARE storing it locally, I guess. I'm not by my server to check, but I think one of the log files gives the path of what's been played - maybe worth looking at that?
Mark
 
#4,693
jjasniew said:
Any way to get a VST "plug-in" to run in the Daphile environment? I'd love to have certain types of effects processing available in Daphile, instead of having to run a buffered USB cable across the room to my laptop, running windows, where in EqualizerAPO they have such a facility.

Personally, I'd think it would really set Daphile apart from other players if it could do this. VST effects in the signal path - as they are used in a DAW environment - is quite a futuristic thing.
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There is an option of adding your own .frd files, but that's it.

The LMS backend does not support VST, so no direct plugin support.
 
#4,696
Sangram said:
The LMS backend does not support VST, so no direct plugin support.
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OK. Not being knowledgeable on Linux audio intricacies, I've read VST can be hosted by other programs, which I assume could run simultaneously with Daphile, running under Linux. It would have to intercept the audio source coming from Daphile, process it and then pass it on out to the USB dac. Possible?

fillingham said:
Why would you want it?
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More and more subtle processing is becoming available via VST plug-in. I'm specifically interested in a multi-band dynamic range expander (think DBX-3BX in VST form) and some of the controllable harmonic generators (2nd and 3rd) I've read about recently. With squeaky clean amplifiers, this would give the ability to dial in a disto profile, versus being stuck with a) none, or b) whatever your tube amp is making.

Basically, it's a whole 'nother realm to play around in. It'd be fun to try and have the convenience of a web-page accessed player I can easily control from any of my screens.

If I go for W10 as my player host OS, I have to go through setting up all this security nonsense just to be able to access the machine "remotely". While great for a corporate environment, dont need - dont care for any of that for a machine that only plays music files and streams occasionally. All I want is it to be there when I want to press play. Which Daphile does a superb avability job at; set it, forget it - like a router!
 
#4,697
Daphile does not have a functional terminal and any needed procedures to get under the hood of the system are far beyond my level of understanding. In theory, it would be possible to use VST running in something like PulseAudio, but again I wouldn't even know where to start.

You could move your computer closer, that would be easier.
 
#4,699
fillingham said:
Well either it's magic, or the servers ARE storing it locally, I guess. I'm not by my server to check, but I think one of the log files gives the path of what's been played - maybe worth looking at that?
Mark
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Mark (and anyone else):

Is there a way to delete the log files? I'd be happy to try that before running a complete rescan (i.e., selecting "clear library and rescan everything") if doing so won't cause more harm.

Regards,
Scott
 
#4,700
Hi,
What I would try in such case :
1 - switch off one of the Daphile servers
2 - rescan the active server using option "Restart media server with reset databases"
3 - switch off the freshly scanned server
4 - switch on the second server
5 - rescan it using option "Restart media server with reset databases"
 
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