Snakeoil Installer- 1.2.6 (Gear Isolation U6)

[agent_kith]

Thanks for the reply. Totally understand the time needed to support different versions. I could always swap out the 2B+ for an earlier version and try it  

32 bit (armv7) will work with all Pis I believe.

To be honest I do not rate Pi 2 or 3 to be good. They sound worse than an Atom board. Pi 4 (and CM4) has potential but that is only a possibility on paper and not a confirmation. All in all, I would suggest just stick to Pi4 and be done with it.

[mattni]

Thanks for the reply. Totally understand the time needed to support different versions. I could always swap out the 2B+ for an earlier version and try it  

32 bit (armv7) will work with all Pis I believe.

To be honest I do not rate Pi 2 or 3 to be good. They sound worse than an Atom board. Pi 4 (and CM4) has potential but that is only a possibility on paper and not a confirmation. All in all, I would suggest just stick to Pi4 and be done with it.

orangepi audio quality is much better than respi

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Thanks for the reply. Totally understand the time needed to support different versions. I could always swap out the 2B+ for an earlier version and try it  

32 bit (armv7) will work with all Pis I believe.

To be honest I do not rate Pi 2 or 3 to be good. They sound worse than an Atom board. Pi 4 (and CM4) has potential but that is only a possibility on paper and not a confirmation. All in all, I would suggest just stick to Pi4 and be done with it.

orangepi audio quality is much better than respi

[agent_kith]

orangepi audio quality is much better than respi

Hmm... Interesting.. Will need to put that in my list of things to do...

[uglymusic]

Thanks for the reply. Totally understand the time needed to support different versions. I could always swap out the 2B+ for an earlier version and try it  

32 bit (armv7) will work with all Pis I believe.

To be honest I do not rate Pi 2 or 3 to be good. They sound worse than an Atom board. Pi 4 (and CM4) has potential but that is only a possibility on paper and not a confirmation. All in all, I would suggest just stick to Pi4 and be done with it.

It depends how you have the RPis set up. I made a comparison between the USB out of a 4 and a 3 with a HAT giving SPDIF (coax) output, both into the same DAC. The 3 with the HAT was so much better I couldn't believe it! 

I don't know if the HAT will work with a 4. It dates back to before the 4 was launched, but the 3 can be made to give good SQ. I didn't bother to make the comparison between my Allo Digione Signature which works on a 3 and the 4's USB output, because its SQ is that much better again.

Just a thought about RPis in the real world 

[labo]

Hi
Would anyone explain to me how to make my dac decode native DSD with snakeoil and squeezlite. (snakeoil version 1.2.11) ?
I have a dac Smsl D300 and DSD files work fine (native) with mpd but  with squeezlite, the files are always shown as pcm 352800Hz.
Thank you.

[labo]

Hi
Would anyone explain to me how to make my dac decode native DSD with snakeoil and squeezlite. (snakeoil version 1.2.11) ?
I have a dac Smsl D300 and DSD files work fine (native) with mpd but  with squeezlite, the files are always shown as pcm 352800Hz.
Thank you.

Hi
Using the option : -D 6:u32be, native DSD worked with squeezlite 1.8, R2 and Ralph but DOP only with 1.6
That's the trick if anyone is interested.

[patricia1066]

1) installing the ordinary Ubuntu 22.04.1 (NOT the UbuntuStudio), choosing "Minimum installation";
2) after installation and rebooted to the Ubuntu 22.04.1 desktop, just skipping all the setting and update;
3) pressing alt-ctrl-T to bring up the Terminal;
4) "sudo su", and then "apt -y install ubuntustudio-installer"; https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-installer/
5) double clicking the colourful icon of "UbuntuStudio Installer" in the app drawer (app drawer is a icons of dots sitting at the lower left hand corner of the screen);
6) after a few seconds a window will pop up and ONLY choosing "linux-lowlatency", and then clicking the "Install selected package" button at the lower right hand corner, and letting it run;

7) after the windows popped out saying it's finished, then click ok/close, and then rebooting the system;
8) after rebooted to the desktop, bringing out the Terminal again, and entering "uname -a" to check the kernel versoin, you'll see "lowlatency" "PREEMP" bla bla bla wording, then it's successfully using UbuntuStudio kernel onward;
9) "sudo su", "apt -y remove ubuntustudio-installer", "apt -y autoremove"
10) the rest is the same as normal SnakeOil Installer working procedure

Enjoy and Have Fun!

I’m following this and have the Linux LL kernel but the so script has left the desktop untouched. 
I have accessed the web server page for SO and installed LMS.

It's just as responsive but it is odd having my home directory on desktop. 
Is that what you have too?

I usually install from scratch with Ubuntu server, which takes less space. My system doesn't show any improvements but I am impressed at how quickly Lms responds on the very limited processing power of t520

I am changing my streaming player soon. The SB touch is making way for Marantz PM7000N which has upnp. I am thinking of minimserver and mconnect on iPad for control. 

I am having difficulty in setting up the upnp bridge and function on Lms, so that doesn't seem to be an option at the moment.

[hkphantomgtr]

1) installing the ordinary Ubuntu 22.04.1 (NOT the UbuntuStudio), choosing "Minimum installation";
2) after installation and rebooted to the Ubuntu 22.04.1 desktop, just skipping all the setting and update;
3) pressing alt-ctrl-T to bring up the Terminal;
4) "sudo su", and then "apt -y install ubuntustudio-installer"; https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-installer/
5) double clicking the colourful icon of "UbuntuStudio Installer" in the app drawer (app drawer is a icons of dots sitting at the lower left hand corner of the screen);
6) after a few seconds a window will pop up and ONLY choosing "linux-lowlatency", and then clicking the "Install selected package" button at the lower right hand corner, and letting it run;

7) after the windows popped out saying it's finished, then click ok/close, and then rebooting the system;
8) after rebooted to the desktop, bringing out the Terminal again, and entering "uname -a" to check the kernel versoin, you'll see "lowlatency" "PREEMP" bla bla bla wording, then it's successfully using UbuntuStudio kernel onward;
9) "sudo su", "apt -y remove ubuntustudio-installer", "apt -y autoremove"
10) the rest is the same as normal SnakeOil Installer working procedure

Enjoy and Have Fun!

I’m following this and have the Linux LL kernel but the so script has left the desktop untouched. 
I have accessed the web server page for SO and installed LMS.

It's just as responsive but it is odd having my home directory on desktop. 
Is that what you have too?

I usually install from scratch with Ubuntu server, which takes less space. My system doesn't show any improvements but I am impressed at how quickly Lms responds on the very limited processing power of t520

I am changing my streaming player soon. The SB touch is making way for Marantz PM7000N which has upnp. I am thinking of minimserver and mconnect on iPad for control. 

I am having difficulty in setting up the upnp bridge and function on Lms, so that doesn't seem to be an option at the moment.

I'm afraid these steps with UbuntuStudio are in history now.  Just "su apt install -y linux-lowlatency" in ordinary desktop Ubuntu 22.04 (choose minimum installation during install) will do the same job with much less disk space occupied.

Some pals said this codes work in ubuntu server 22.04, too.  But I didn't try.

And for the home directory at the desktop, I didn't have this problem.

[patricia1066]

I connected wiim mini to the network. It found the SO share and it's app provides the music organised by artists, albums, genres, music folder. 
It's getting dlna through the 5ghz band even though the upnp bridge isn't recognising rendering players. 

It's bit perfect to 192khz 24bit and streaming sounds better than Apple classical music app via Airplay2.

Hopefully this performance will be maintained, some people say it deteriorated after a while depending on their network.

[kees1000]

At the end, I found the Roon bridge install solution!

- installed from scratch Ubuntu desktop 22.04 LTS Minimal install
- install Curl: sudo apt install curl
- Install Roon Bridge via the Terminal (https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/a...dge_x86_64) 
- Install Snakeoil installer 1.2.6
- Update snakeoil firmware tot 1.2.11
- install Low Latency kernel: (sudo apt install -y linux-lowlatency)

Complete happy now!

PS: don't forget select the low latency kernel within Snakeoil