Re: Squeeze Play on Joggler

[Peter Campion-Bye <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have 3 jogglers running Squeezeplay. One is connected directly to a
pair of PC speakers on my desk, the other 2 are used as controllers for
Squeezebox Receivers. All 3 run Ubuntu, installed from the builds found
here: http://joggler.exotica.org.uk/ubuntu/
The squeezebox server
software runs on my fileserver box.
I've converted them all to run from an SD card, as described here:
http://www.justblair.co.uk/extending-the-jogglers-usb-capabilities.html
which looks much better than having a USB stick sticking out the side,
and also means the USB socket is freed up to plug a keyboard into on the
odd occasion it's necessary.
The Squeezeplay interface works very well, the only issue I have found
is that synchronizing with a hardware player doesn't work very reliably.
If you're planning to feed the hi-fi directly from the joggler it's
probably worth experimenting with an external USB soundcard, various
reports indicate that even a cheap one gives better audio than the
joggler's internal soundcard.

On 21/12/11 22:02, Dean Smith wrote:
> Is anyone using a joggler as a front end for squeezeplay/server ?
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> I really like the simplicity and standardisation of the whole
squeezebox
> interface across the family of devices. The Squeezebox radio we have
in the
> kitchen gets very high WAF - and this seems like a very cost effective
way
> of feeding a normal hi-fi with Squeezeplay driven music.  There seems
to be
> 2 ways as far as I can work out - 1 with a native joggler app or add a
> memory stick and go Linux ? I'd be interested in any experiences +ve
or -ve
> particularly around whether you have remote control etc. Is it / can
it be
> as seemless as a "proper" squeezebox device.
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> Thanks
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> Dean
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