(10-13-2020, 05:00 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: If you so choose, download it to your moOde 6.7.1 player, unzip it, as root copy the binary to /usr/local/bin/librespot, make sure it is marked executable, and reboot.
Thanks Kent!
Had it all done and new librespot in place, plays allright, although it was mandatory to let the librespot.zip file be upzipped on the Pi. I had it upzip first by Dropbox I think and then move it to the Pi but that would not give a recognisable/playable Spotify Connect instance. But that is exactly wat you said, and the doing it a bit different gave me a tiny headache instead.
But.... still nasty spikes! Unfortunately.
With this output of
pi@moOde:~ $ cat /proc/asound/card2/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params
access: RW_INTERLEAVED
format: S16_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 44100 (352800/8)
period_size: 5513
buffer_size: 22052
So, with period and buffer sizes OK now, from what I learned from Jason.
I have the idea that the spikes appear a tiny bit less often but still they are easy to reproduce. Play Spotify with a HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro card on a RP4, skip to next track after a few seconds a few times and PAC!!!!!
Perhaps it has to do with the XLR version... which further limits the number of people that might have the same problem.
But I cannot have moOde slowly kill my gear, I have nice active KRK monitors on it in the living room. So that will be the end of it for now until any improvement or further testing.
I like moOde, it has great potential. It is not perfect yet and I would love to see way more essential user features (compare to the extended technical/audiophile features that seems to receive relatively way more attention). But the alternatives, HiFiBerryOS and Volumio are, well... FAR from perfect? I mean they miss a LOT and especially in UI, not going into details.
HiFiBerryOS dóes play Spotify Connect without problems though and that is what we relatively use the most here.
So for now I have to go with that here at home that and see what happens with moOde..... or, later invest the $$ and forget about the current DAC and casing and go for something else. I do like the balanced output version of this DAC, well...
Thanks in advance for any improvements and all the work that relates to this!