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.
piCorePlayer 1.18 supports the new Raspberry Pi B+ with the new audio DAC+ cards from HiFiBerryand IQaudIO. These cards have the advantage that you simply connect the audio cards to the new connector present on the Raspberry Pi B+ cards. So soldering is not needed any more.
In order to use any of these cards you simply choose the correct I2S card+ from the drop-down list on the “Squeezelite settings” page in the piCorePlayer web-browser:
Greg and I have been working hard on this version, so I hope you like it.
Changes
Build on kernel 3.16.3 at the time when 24 bit support still was present.
Support the same I2S-DACs as previous versions on the original Raspberry Pi B (thanks to JackofAll for his advice).
Supports the new Raspberry Pi B+ with HiFiBerryDAC+ and Digi+ cards. Supports the new IQaudIO+ card as well.
Fixed the upsample problem.
Tried another patch to allow 192kHZ via HDMI - please test and report back.
New tweak that allows you to use a saved ALSA setting after reboot (Ian please test). You will need to use SHH access and the use alsamixer to change your settings. Then save these settings by: sudo alsactl store followed by sudo filetool.sh -b. Now these settings will be used after a reboot.
New tweak so you can schedule a reboot or a restart of Squeezelite using cron job.
New tweak so you are able to autostart a specific audiostream via LMS.
Development of piCorePlayer is now strengthened as Greg Erskine is part of piCorePlayer. He has rewritten all the web pages and cgi scripts.
Changes
Kernel is the same as piCorePlayer 1.16a, but firmware files are updated so you can use it on your Raspberry Pi B+.
New tweaks
Change password for piCorePlayer.
Select time zone.
If you have used ALSA mixer via ssh, then you can “use custom ALSA settings” on the [Tweaks] page, and your custom ALSA settings will remembered and used after each reboot.
Select different FIQ-split acceleration. Try different settings if you have trouble with your USB sound card.
New gadget
If you give the IP address of your LMS server on the Squeezelite settings page, you will see a new set of controls on top of the piCorePlayer logo. These controls give you a very basic control of the LMS. You can change sound volume and change tracks.
As previously stated Greg fixed my cgi scripts and rewrote all the web pages, so they now comply with standards and the structure is much better.
I’m happy to announce that this will be the last time you will have to burn piCorePlayer to your SD card, as in the future you can update your system without needing access to your Raspberry Pi.
In-situ Update is now possible for future updates.
From the main web page you can now check for newer versions of piCorePlayer and update without having access to your piCorePlayer. So no need for burning SD cards in the future.
I have made it possible to use this in-situ mechanism for using two older versions of piCorePlayer the 1.15b and 1.15e (now called piCorePlayer 1.15bi and piCorePlayer 1.15ei).
Other changes
Kernel updated to 3.14.4 and firmware updated to latest available.
HDMI issues are now hopefully fixed.
Will try to establish Wifi connection several times at startup before continuing without Wifi connection.
Now I think we have nailed the problem with the latest USB development. In piCorePlayer 1.15e the USB audio is now as good as with piCorePlayer 1.15c and the I2S audio cards problems and the analog audio is fixed as well.
Sorry for the disaster with the piCorePlayer 1.15c - It played very well using USB - but I did not test anything else - and as you all know it was inferior in all other aspects. So I’m removing it from download.
So please go to piCorePlayer 1.15d.
Changes
kernel updated to 3.14.2 with the latest USB-fixes, it plays via USB at least as good as the 1.15c version.
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