wtfplay project - Linux based PC playback system

[Ipoci]

Try it and let me know what you think.
frd

Thanks frd.

Yesterday I found your player. I did a short test with a non resident laptop and I noticed something good on the sound, then I booted the resident pc to have a walk through over some of my well known tracks.

The JLsounds dac with AK4490 works flawlessly with PCM and DSD tracks, I was able to send both DoP and native non-DoP DSD as well, not a sigle pop or ugly sound appears.

After a couple of listening hours, I'm further convinced of the beauty of sound and I will definitely spend more time with your player during the weekend. I've a quite decent skills with computer audio and more than one audio Pc here so comparison is easy.

The GUI is good enough for me, I would like to have smaller font size in order to be able to read long tracks title and a scroll between tracks.

The second "feature request" is about gapless playout (maybe as a selectable option).

Hope useful. I will provide additional info.

Have a nice day. Massimiliano

Setup: ASUS laptop with linear PS, highly customized JLsounds DAC, ASR Emitter 1 Exclusive, Wilson Audio Sophia2 speakers

 

[frd__]

Thanks for the report Massimiliano, I am glad that it works for you. Gapless playback is something that I will be looking at in the near future. I've been thinking about it for quite a while.

Thanks,
F

PS. Your DAC looks really cool. Very neat build!

 

[2marco]

Intel core 2 duo P7350, Ram 3 gb > Gustardx x20 flawlessly working. Thank FRD for your work, wtfcui is smart and the sound is superb , best player I'have tried.

 

[cjk]

Thank you for this.

Hello
Thank you for this.
This sounds like something I've been looking for. Optimized for SQ! I don't need all the bells and whistles.

I'm not as familiar with Linux as some of the others so bear with me. I have Sonore Rendu. This is a DLNA network player that takes the output from the computer via the Ethernet connection and then outputs SPDIF to the DAC.

Could I use your WTF with this configuration? Can I port network packages from say debian or Ubuntu into WTF to support this DLNA player?

I'm considering building a CAPS type computers to be the server for this player. So, perhaps, I could use WTF as the operating system on the CAPS computer?

 

[xxxbugxxxx]

What about dsd?


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[frd__]

@ckj: Unfortunately not at the moment. At present wtfplay-live does not support networking, and adding extra packages will not help. Networking is on my TODO list.

I took a quick look at Sonore Rendu webpage and it seems that you need only a streaming application, and the Rendu takes care about the rest.

@xxxbugxxxx: DSD is supported in the last version of wtfplay-live.

 

[blueray]

Hi frd. Is it possible to save kernel booting options without tab button pressing and typing anytyme at command prompt?

 

[frd__]

@blueray: The bootloader configuration is stored in a read-only filesystem (ISO9660) so unfortunately changes are not possible. I received the same query via email. Was that you?

PS. Sorry for late response. I had to travel unexpectedly for last three weeks.

 

[blueray]

Yes Fryderyk i was. I made a workaround to change boot options.

 

[dewy1]

hi frd_

your wtfplay sounds fantastic,a Player that work's like an OS,great!

what i missing is:

gapless playback

full Album load in ram

dsdiff Support

thankfull

daniel

 

[frd__]

Thanks for good words Daniel. I am glad that you enjoy the sound with wtfplay. Features will be coming in time.

 

[frd__]

wtfplay-live 0.5.1 is available

I am happy to announce that wtfplay-live 0.5.1 has been released. No new
features this time, but the number of ISOs is growing: Intel Core i3/5/7
with AVX image and AMD optimised images are available.

You can download the images from wtfplay-project.org
The detailed release notes can be found at: wtfplay-project.org/rnotes.html

Enjoy!

 

[mnbvvbnm]

Hi!Planning to buy SOtM tX-USBexp,you will see wtfplay this device?

 

[frd__]

Hi!Planning to buy SOtM tX-USBexp,you will see wtfplay this device?

I do not expect any problem with this device. I think someone asked me about it before and later confirmed that it worked.

F

 

[mnbvvbnm]

Thank you very much!wtfplay is the best in computer audio.

 

[tonitonitoni]

hi, i would like to test this,have question.can You recomend what build should i use on laptop with dual core sandy bridge with ht. corei7? thanks.

 

[frd__]

@tonitonitoni: Sandybridge has AVX instruction set so go with 'corei7-avx' image. 'corei7' image will also work without problems.

I would also recommend to enable HPET in your BIOS if you have it disabled by chance.

 

[hownolulu]

Thanks a lot !
When I try to boot using SD in the SD card reader which is built in my laptop(hp 8460p),I met this error message:ssh can't open tty ,...in emergency shell.But when I use an usb-card reader for SD card to boot,everything is OK.Is there something wrong with the built-in sd card reader?
Sorry for my poor English

 

[frd__]

hownolulu, thanks for reporting the problem. Your card reader is OK. I checked the code and it is the bug. I forgot about SD card readers in the initialization script. This will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks again for letting me know.
F

 

[hownolulu]

hownolulu, thanks for reporting the problem. Your card reader is OK. I checked the code and it is the bug. I forgot about SD card readers in the initialization script. This will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks again for letting me know.
F

Thank you very much!Expect the next version.