[mythtv-users] Standalone music player with mythfrontend on Raspberry PI?

[George Galt]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:09 AM, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > How well does that sync with your other squeezeboxes?
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> I have been looking into this setup myself for my Pi.  I have no
> hardware squeezeboxes.  I used squeezeslave for a while but when I
> downloaded SqueezePlayer for my phone and tablet from the Google play
> store I found that SqueezePlay and squeezeslave would not play well.
> I never found the sync to be great between two squeezeslave machines
> either (often one would get up to 30 seconds or more behind the
> other).
>
> I then found squeezelite.  Again, I don't have hardware players, but
> between multiple instances of itself and between it and SqueezePlayer
> on the android devices, it has all gone well.
>
> I plan to use my Pi as a squeezelite player, hooked up to some kind of
> stand-alone amp for playing audio on outdoor speakers.  Whether I
> actually get that little project of the drawing board is another story
> though :P
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Well this has gone WAY off the mythtv topic, but thanks for the pointer to
squeezelite.  I was not aware of it.  FYI, the problem with sync is often
buffer sizes.  In general, the smaller and cheaper your hardware (with
smaller buffers) the better sync will work.
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