Upcoming moOde 9.0.0 (Bookworm)

[Tim Curtis]

A gentle reminder about these pre-releases of moOde 9.0.0.code.

They are not production releases. They are not even beta releases. They are snapshots of code in active development.

In that regard, this is not a normal user-support thread; it is a tester scrum.

The purpose of testing these pre-releases is to find points of failure and to identify the causes of the failures so they can be fixed. This helps Tim progress.

Don’t install if you expect the code to Just Work™. Do  identify causes to the best of your ability. Do exercise as many different options as possible. Don’t keep identifying the same point of failure.

In the end, moOde 9 is going to be the best yet.

Just my 2-cents worth.

Regards,
Kent

For sure.

To do the port to Bookworm the right way and take advantage of its new networking, audio and video features requires the corresponding sections of moode code to be re-done. This is a substantial, months long effort and involves a huge amount  of testing on multiple Raspberry Pi's.

I figured the best way to grind through this port is to do regular pre-release code drops and get help in testing from our nice community of users. Thanks to the highly automated, fantastic build tooling created by @bitlab, the moode-player package and image can be created quickly and easily :-)

It looks like we have settled into a weekly code drop schedule, prolly every Thursday or Friday. 

So far audio is beginning to stabilize (there are still some volume and other issues), all the renderers seem to work and networking seems solid except for the lack of support for static IP addressing. DSP has not been addressed yet.

The upcoming ~pre5 drop should get audio pretty close and will include static ip addressing, local display for Pi-3 and some work on DSP. There is also some sort of crash being reported for the System Config screen which I'll try to investigate. 

** One outstanding issue is the current alsa_cdsp plugin does not work on Bookworm/kernel 6.6. There is a test compiled version in the ~pre's that works on Pi-5 only but prolly not 100%. This is being investigated but help is needed so if you are a CamillaDSP fan, an experienced c coder and know the ALSA API (or want to know it) then let us know and I'll provide all the relevant info.

-Tim