Following some messages by fellow inmate hfavandepas, as I also come from the cMP2 camp (and still promoting it), I decided to have a go at Tiny Core Linux using Deadbef as a music player. I am starting this thread to encourage discussion about such system.
Setting a TCL system up is very simple even for a non-Linux user like me. Initially, one can save everything on a USB pendrive and load the OS directly from there. Literally, one downloads a 12 MB image file of TCL, loads it onto a USB pendrive with Core2usb and start-up the system with that. That's it! Then, one downloads ALSA and Deadbeef. It is best to backup before exiting so your session settings are saved. If your sound card/DAC is recognized by ALSA (many nowadays are), you are ready to listen to some music.
Sound quality is immediately impressive. Playback can be bit-perfect or upsampled using the included SRC Resampler (one of the features in common with cPlay). Music files can be read from the system drive. In order to read a music library from external HD or NAS, the drive has to be mounted. Therefore, for initial testing one can put some music in a folder on the system drive.
As a newbie suggestions from more expert users are welcomed. I also have a few questions.
1) With no DSP involved (so ALSA bit-perfect), if I choose to playback two different resolutions files (ie 44.1 and 96 kHz), ALSA does not automatically recognize the different resolution passing from one to the other even if I stop playback in between. I have to start/stop/restart. Can this be avoided? I have only load ALSA app, no extra utility.
2) At the moment ALSA settins are Buffer:8192 and Period:1024. What is your best setting and how did you go about it? Did you measure, for example, CPU utilization?
3) I think I have read that Deadbeef supports SoX Resampler too. Am I correct? Does it need to be compiled? Has anybody done it?
Please share your experience. Thank you.
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Topic - Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - Bibo01 17:27:21 08/11/13 (63)
- RE: Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - theob 03:20:39 09/3/13 (14)
- lightly slimmed cMP (-)Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef (-) Puppy Linux (-) Standard Linux distro's - hfavandepas 13:11:26 09/4/13 (9)
- RE: lightly slimmed cMP (-)Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef (-) Puppy Linux (-) Standard Linux distro's - SBGK 13:43:37 09/4/13 (8)
- "it was the quietest os" - hfavandepas 05:00:00 09/5/13 (7)
- RE: "it was the quietest os" - SBGK 05:04:22 09/5/13 (6)
- RE: "it was the quietest os" - Dynobot 10:37:29 09/5/13 (5)
- RE: "it was the quietest os" - Whell 05:38:40 09/6/13 (4)
- On what Linux? Standard Linux distro? Puppy? Or Tiny Core? (NT) - hfavandepas 01:14:58 09/7/13 (3)
- RE: On what Linux? Standard Linux distro? Puppy? Or Tiny Core? (NT) - Whell 12:19:52 09/7/13 (2)
- You should really try Puppy. - hfavandepas 12:54:10 09/7/13 (1)
- RE: You should really try Puppy. - Whell 15:46:39 09/7/13 (0)
- RE: Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - Whell 06:22:00 09/3/13 (3)
- RE: Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - theob 09:41:29 09/3/13 (2)
- RE: Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - Whell 19:07:37 09/3/13 (1)
- RE: Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - Bibo01 23:27:31 09/3/13 (0)
- Bibo, saw this - wondered if you had looked into it - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 13:50:21 08/28/13 (0)
- Settings - Bibo01 16:18:24 08/22/13 (6)
- nrpacks impact USB operation but I use an PCI audio interface - hfavandepas 08:12:07 08/31/13 (3)
- RE: nrpacks impact USB operation but I use an PCI audio interface - Bibo01 17:48:07 08/31/13 (2)
- I read your words. But what is the message? - hfavandepas 09:35:15 09/1/13 (1)
- RE: I read your words. But what is the message? - Bibo01 17:34:02 09/1/13 (0)
- Tiny core + Deadbeaf sound quality - audiosm 07:18:12 08/23/13 (1)
- RE: Tiny core + Deadbeaf sound quality - theob 07:57:29 08/23/13 (0)
- Is Mark getting this to work with .wav? - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 12:51:05 08/17/13 (6)
- RE: Is Mark getting this to work with .wav? - Bibo01 17:00:59 08/17/13 (5)
- I now also have that WAV-bug on recent installs. But how about SOUND QUALITY? - hfavandepas 02:41:38 08/19/13 (3)
- RE: I now also have that WAV-bug on recent installs. But how about SOUND QUALITY? - Bibo01 18:01:34 08/20/13 (1)
- Well, it was fun while it lasted - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 07:37:10 08/22/13 (0)
- RE: I now also have that WAV-bug on recent installs. But how about SOUND QUALITY? - Bibo01 17:17:56 08/19/13 (0)
- I tend to think the problem is with DEADBEEF - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 07:53:15 08/18/13 (0)
- Do you think LUNIX wants more memory than our cMP set-ups? - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 12:33:42 08/16/13 (5)
- RE: Do you think LUNIX wants more memory than our cMP set-ups? - Bibo01 18:00:37 08/16/13 (4)
- Oops, that one was not for fun - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 19:56:06 08/16/13 (3)
- RE: Oops, that one was not for fun - Bibo01 20:27:15 08/16/13 (2)
- Not sure I understand LINUX speak - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 08:08:03 08/17/13 (1)
- So, is this the same problem you are having? - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 08:10:15 08/17/13 (0)
- Bibou, can you give an outline of how you are using this - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 09:11:30 08/15/13 (4)
- RE: Bibou, can you give an outline of how you are using this - Bibo01 17:36:41 08/15/13 (3)
- On my way (and thanks, also to hifivandepas) - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 17:47:45 08/15/13 (2)
- RE: On my way (and thanks, also to hifivandepas) - Bibo01 19:54:43 08/15/13 (1)
- Hope he will excuse my fanciful re-make of his moniker - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 11:17:59 08/16/13 (0)
- No WAV playback ?! - Bibo01 20:32:52 08/13/13 (4)
- A cursory look tells me ... - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 12:45:52 08/14/13 (2)
- RE: A cursory look tells me ... - Bibo01 01:36:44 08/15/13 (1)
- I have been reading your posts in the TL Forum. - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 07:34:37 08/15/13 (0)
- This is beyond me - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 12:36:43 08/14/13 (0)
- So where does one go to learn how to use this? - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 14:26:52 08/13/13 (2)
- RE: So where does one go to learn how to use this? - Bibo01 16:12:58 08/13/13 (1)
- Very good! - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 17:18:22 08/13/13 (0)
- Very intriguing ... - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 07:13:54 08/12/13 (3)
- What file system do you have to use for your music files? - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 08:00:52 08/12/13 (2)
- RE: What file system do you have to use for your music files? - EmailTim 17:11:11 08/12/13 (1)
- No apologies, I am LINUX ignorant - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 18:36:40 08/12/13 (0)
- RE: Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - EmailTim 18:22:46 08/11/13 (9)
- RE: Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - Bibo01 20:18:57 08/11/13 (8)
- RE: Tiny Core Linux + Deadbeef - audiosm 06:56:14 08/17/13 (7)
- You must have greater abilities than you say - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 12:53:46 08/17/13 (6)
- RE: You must have greater abilities than you say - audiosm 03:41:35 08/19/13 (5)
- RE: You must have greater abilities than you say - audiosm 04:43:32 08/19/13 (4)
- Don't erase that 'old' USB stick ! Newer USB-installs will not work. - hfavandepas 08:43:34 08/19/13 (3)
- The only FLAC I had was not something I was familiar with - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 13:09:45 08/20/13 (2)
- Try Audacity on TCL for a glimps of the SQ which comes from TCL + Deadbeef - hfavandepas 11:46:17 08/30/13 (1)
- Worth a try - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 14:16:15 08/30/13 (0)