Squeeze Me Lite

Latest update: 01/28/2013
 

I'd like to introduce you to a pretty new very tiny Squeezebox client.  You could also call it Squeezebox emulator. 
It's written by Adrian Smith, the person who also provides the EDO plugin (USB support) for the Squeezebox Touch.

The client is called Squeezelite .


Squeezelite a nice little (very slim) headless Squeezeboxclient. Headless because it acts like a systemservice in the background of your OS. 

Appendix 1 shows sompiling instructions
Appendix 2 shows a wrapper script you can use on a PC or SB Touch

The silent death...

Hi folks.


Do you sometimes have the feeling, of not feeling comfortable the way you handle and administrate your valuable music ( and video and image) collection?

You don't really know -- if all the audio file integrity is still given  (after all those years of moving files here and there) !?!?

Loundess war - finally over ???

Hi folks.

Anybody heard about EBU R128??

To be honest. I didn't until recencly.

I accidently stepped  over EBU R128 (EBU=European Broadcasting Union, R128=Recommendation 128) while looking for a better ReplayGain solution.

R128 finally defines a standard how loudness should be measured and applied in an acceptable way.

The standard was based on  ITU BS.1770 ( International Telecommunications Union) released in 2006.
ITU BS.1770  has been widely applied in the broadcasting scene.
EBU R128  significantly enhanced that standard by a function called gating (You'll learn more about it later on.)  The original ITU BS.1770 has been updated to ITU BS.1770-3 by now and includes the gating function as proposed by EBU R128.

Not only us - audio geeks - have a huge problem with low quality music and messup of audio data due to "Loudness War" - NO - broadcasters face the same challenge on a daily basis.  They can not sit down and change the volume on every piece they are broadcasting.

They have to normalize audio of much more media sources, such as speach, film, commercials, podcasts, audio asf. And by doing so, they're compressing and messing with  the audio data even further.

Ever heard about Full Digital Amps ??

(Sometimes they are also called PowerDACs or All Digital Amps btw.)


No !?!?


...the end of the  DAC + AMP decade might be near!!! ;)


For those of you who got tired to run after every new DAC and amp (I did), and
those who've read the 1000th review of another miracle  DAC (I did), or those
of you who got more confused then enlightened with the endless number
of DACs of choice out there ( I did again), or those who look for a very small,
cost efficient and still great sounding system ... (Oh -- I'm talking about myself..)

Touch Toolbox 3.0

I. Introduction

Probably you come by 'cause you're owning a little audio streaming device called Logitech Squeezebox Touch...

...and you're looking for a little gadget that'll make it "sing".

Yep. That's the place. You found it...

10 minutes of intensive reading and 20 minutes of work (max) will hopefully get you there.


I'm pretty sure it'll turn out to be worth the effort...

(Perhaps you'd like to read some motivating  testimonials  first. ;) )