Comments on: Compiling SqueezePlay on linux (Ubuntu AMD64)

By: Mervin

Mervin — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:22:28 +0000

Some great news: Steve Payne has done the hard work of getting pulseaudio working on squeezeplay 7.6: https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5627&group_id=1311&atid=4902

I’ve compiled 7.6 (with some new libs for SDL audio and portmixer), and it works! The only issue I faced was that it needed to be run as root. I’m looking into this, but have to sudo /opt/bin/squeezeplay/bin/…. is fine.

By: Mervin

Mervin — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:46:12 +0000

Jeff, when you say that “they have fixed the audio output problems”, do you mean that you’ve compiled a version that will work with pulseaudio?

That’s my remaining issue with squeezeplay, as the other audio tools I use are set up and work well on Lucid/pulseaudio.

By: Jeff Strunk

Jeff Strunk — Sun, 09 May 2010 05:47:14 +0000

Version 7.6 commit 8763 works pretty well. They have fixed the audio output problems. It also works with no changes to the code.

The nightly builds on http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Nightly_Builds have some bad UI problems.

I am going to try to get it into a PPA, but I am not a debian packaging master and this is not a standard autoconf/automake type package.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:34:28 +0000

These steps also work on ubuntu 10.04. Unfortunately we still have to remove pulse.

By: Nemno

Nemno — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:47:46 +0000

Got the windows version working on ubuntu with wine :p
Downloaded wine with pulseaudio driver and installed the windows version of squeezeplay.

I didn’t want to remove pulseaudio so this works for the moment.
So now waiting for someone (maybe myself) to make a pulseaudio version.

By: dep

dep — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:41:12 +0000

Removing PulseAudio worked for me as well.
Thank you for all the work you’ve done with this!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:07:47 +0000

On Ubuntu 9.10 x86, I was able to compile with minimal changes. The result plays audio on my 8.04 LTS x64 system (even though it uses PulseAudio!) but is mute on my 9.10 system (where I have not gone so far as to try removing PulseAudio). Since SqueezePlay is now under a BSD-style license, I’ve put binaries up in my web space, http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/squeezeplay/

You’ll find the patch I applied there (yes, I used the portaudio code from Logitech), and detached PGP signatures for the build tarballs.

By: Kev Walke

Kev Walke — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:10:15 +0000

I could never get this to work. However, I checked out the 7.6 branch instead, and was able to build the application using only the second change to the makefile you outline above and installing the package “realpath”. The squeezeplay-deb makefile option also worked successfully for me. However, it still does not play nicely with pulseaudio.

By: Steve Carter

Steve Carter — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:51:49 +0000

Great tutorial, all working well. For me the following small changes were necessary (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic AMD64)…

1 - The very first command I got an error relating to libasound-dev stating I had to be specific and had to change to libasound2-dev (note addition of ‘2′). i.e:

sudo apt-get install build-essential flex bison subversion automake libtool libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libexpat1-dev libreadline5-dev xorg-dev libflac++-dev libvorbis-dev libvorbisidec-dev libasound2-dev

2 - Second from last command needed a ’sudo’ i.e:

sudo tar -C /opt/squeezeplay -xvf sq

3 - Followed MattyJ’s post December 3rd, 2009 on 5:02 pm:

> completely remove pulseaudio :-

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio

> changed the permissions to allow all in /opt/squeezeplay with:-

sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/squeezeplay

Very happy, thanks Jfw and the rest of you.

By: Eric Schoville

Eric Schoville — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:08:56 +0000

Uninstalling Pulseaudio works for me. Any way to change the screen resolution?