Ralphy has been a great support and help during the development - so thank you very much.
IMPORTANT: The new Jivelite and Squeezelite are large packages, therefore, if you update from a previous version, you might be running out of space. So I recommend that the first thing you do after updating piCorePlayer is to increase the available space:
Select the [Beta] tab in the bottom of the Main webpage.
Select [Resize FS] on the Main web page this will expand the piCorePlayer to use all of your SD card
Select “Auto” - this will start the automatic resize process, pCP will reboot a couple of times, and it takes some minute (depending on the size of your SD card) - but please be patient and let it finish.
Changes
Updated kernel 4.1.12.
Updated piCore (even faster booting).
Touchscreen support improved (the official RPi 7" touchscreen).
Calibration file included.
Jivelite can be installed from webpage.
VU-Meters can be changed from webpage.
New high quality default VU-Meter made by forum member Kolossos - thank you very much.
Backlight on/off (Jivelite settings/screen/screensavers/when stopped/Display off ) then the backlight will be off when not playing, and on when you touch the screen.
Ralphy is providing two versions of Squeezelite. The basic version which is shipped with pCP allow playback of pcm, (wav/aiff), flac, mp3, ogg and aac. It is only 1 Mb in size. The ffmpeg version is bigger (12 MB) and allows in addition playback of ALAC and WMA via build in ffmpeg. In the Main page you can choose which version you will use.
After customizing Jivelite you need to save your changes to the next reboot. This is done on the webpage ([Advanced] tab in the bottom and choose [Backup]).
Finally, we succeeded to support the new official Raspberry Pi 7" touch screen.
With the help from Ralphy (from the Squeezebox forum) and bmarkus (from the piCore team) we managed to get the new 7" Touch Screen working with piCorePlayer, so now you can use Jivelite and piCorePlayer will be almost like a original Squeezebox Touch.
So please try piCorePlayer 1.21g.
Changes
Improved the mount/unmount behaviour.
Fixed a problem with selecting audio output in RPiA.
Numerous small bug fixes and improvements in web pages.
Added option to control output volume by ALSA.
Fixed the problem that all dtovelays in config.txt was wrongly removed.
Added unmute via GPIO pin 22 - used for IQaudIO AMP - and Digi AMP+.
Added touch function for the official RPi 7" touch screen.
Thanks to all your bug reports, Greg and I are releasing a new version piCorePlayer 1.21b.
Changes
The update process required a reboot in order for the I2S-DACs to be loaded. Resulting in “Squeezelite not running” after first boot - this is now done automatically the first time you start after an in situ update.
This also fixed a host name problem.
The newconfig.cfg file was not removed after an in situ update, which probably is the cause of some of the inconsistent problems we are seeing - should be fixed now.
Build with fbtft support - (module package will come later).
host name setting is fixed (now a reboot is needed in order to change host name).
Hiface USB module included.
Build with IRDA support - modules still need to be included in a separate package (will come later).
Various bug fixes related to Wifi, ALSA settings, in situ update etc.
Note
If you are comfortable editing a file in piCorePlayer you can fix the in situ update problem in piCorePlayer 1.21. Otherwise you simply download piCorePlayer 1.21a_RPi or piCorePlayer 1.21a_RPi2 and burn it to your SD card.
[DELETED September 10] New version 1.21 is ready. [Please notice this version was removed as it had a nasty bug so future updates from this version was not possible.]
Changes
Kernel updated to 4.1.6 with a possible important USB fix for those using Schitt Modi 2 audio box (or similar).
Added tab, so it is easy to jump from one piCorePlayer to another present in your system.
Re-added the controls allowing you to skip tracks and adjust volume up/down.
Automatic select the correct timezone (depending on your location based on IP geo-location).
Added a “mode” tab at the bottom of the [Main Page] allowing us to present more or less options/settings on the pages.
Improved Wifi on/off logic, so now a reboot is not needed anymore.
Note: In this version of piCorePlayer a new password is used.
User: tc
Password: piCore
We have a new version ready piCorePlayer 1.19k.
It is mostly a bug fix version but Greg have developed a new option that allow you to set a static IP address for your piCorePlayer. This has been requested frequently, so now the first part is ready. For now it is only for wired networks, so if you use Wifi you can’t set a static IP-address. We hope to have such an option later.
New versions piCorePlayer 1.19i and piCorePlayer 1.19i_RPi2 are available from the download page.
Changes
Fixed the problem with Wifi and RPiA+ cards (did not load firmware).
To set up an only Wifi based system download the newconfig.cfg file from here: Downloads. Then change the Wifi section so it fits your setup and save it to your SD card boot partition (in a windows computer just save it to the SD card as it is the only partition visible in windows). Next boot the Raspberry Pi from this SD card.
Improved booting speed.
Added Jivelite support on the Tweaks page - thanks to Ralphy for providing the Jivelite package.
On armv6 boards (the older RPi’s) HDMI streaming now supports high sample rates.
On armv7 boards (the new RPi2) HDMI streaming still only support up to 48kHZ. Sorry for that but my RPi2 compiling computer crashed. Will be fixed later.
For Wifi setup on a RPi A+ this section of newconfig.cfg needs changing:
Actually there are two separate releases as we need a version for the older Raspberry Pi boards and a version for the new armv7 version of the Raspberry Pi board (RPi2).
Greg and I have been working hard on improving the experience when using piCorePlayer.
In addition, improvements in the Wifi and autostart of Lyrion Media Server (LMS) have been included. The autostart feature of LMS means that piCorePlayer is able to start playing one of your favourite radio stations after you boot is.
If you were using a HiFiBerryAMP (the amplifier card from HiFiBerry) please update to piCorePlayer 1.18b, otherwise your card was not recognised after a reboot.
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