Comments on: New release of BruteFIR Room Correction for SC7.4 (1.1.0)

By: Mervin

Mervin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:59:13 +0000

Thanks for BruteFirDRC!

I have been trying to install 1.2.0, and have succeeded up to step 4, ie. downloaded, installed, created filter directory, restarted, and checked the filter settings on the squeezeboxserver.

I use SBserver 7.5.1 and the player is an SBTouch. It appears that the user interface has changed, and I cannot proceed further:

I am stuck on step 5: go to the Players settings –> menu and add the plugin as a menu entry (to access it via the remote control)

In the Player tab of squeezeboxserver, there is no “menu” selection available. There is a drop-down for Basic Settings / Alarm Clock / Audio / LastFM, but nothing that allows me to add the plugin to the SBTouch menu.

I have also checked the Advanced tab on SBserver, and the Customize Device dropdown menu does not provide ability to add to the menu.

I believe that I am probably mis-reading your instruction for step (5). Any assistance from you or others will be appreciated!

By: Jerick

Jerick — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:20:41 +0000

I have not used any of these programs yet, had a few quick questions.

Are these EQ bands only 1 hz wide? or do they show roll-off across a range of bands centered at the desired frequency like analog EQ?

Are you able to route any source through the filters? i.e. a microphone input, an auxilary input of any kind, various software sources (itunes, winamp, daemon, etc…)

Can you seperate the stereo input to several outputs while applying different filters to each output?

Lastly, in the future, where is the best place to ask questions like these if I have any again?

Thank you for any and all help you can give! Have an excellent day.

By: Klaas

Klaas — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:34:59 +0000

I guess you mean the Equalizer Option to select the EQ-Bands. It is not implemented right now, so I should delete the option from the menu. It was supposed to let you select between Bass/Treble, Iso-Octave or 1/3 Iso-Octave EQ. But you can just add the EQ bands to your filter and use the other option to adjust the gain for each band.

Thank you for your conversion line, I am going to add it to the templates

By: Visuel

Visuel — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:15:55 +0000

Hi,
I am using your plugin against squeezeboxserver 7.5.0 for m4a and mp3 files.
Thanks for that!

I use the following conversion rule for Applelossless format (alac), maybe somebody can use it:

alc flc * $CLIENT_MAC_ADDRESS$
# FT:{START=-j %s}D:{RESAMPLE=-r %d}
[faad] -q -w -f 1 $START$ $FILE$ | [sox] -q -t wav – -t wavpcm -c 2 -3 -s $RESAMPLE$ – $START$ | [brutefirwrapper] $CLIENT_MAC_ADDRESS$ $FULL_FILTER_PATH$ | [flac] -cs -0 –totally-silent -

Everything is working fine!!

On the squeezebox I see the option “Select Band”, but in the manual I do not see any explanation.
On my squeezebox it does nothing!
What is it supposed to do?

Regards!

By: flaca

flaca — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:42:38 +0000

Sorry if this has been asked before. Does anyone run the BruteFIR plugin on a ReadyNAS or other NAS device? I currently run Squeezecenter from a ReadyNAS Duo – I know this will be too slow to run BruteFIR, but how about the new ReadyNAS NVX? Will this be fast enough?

Anyone done this sucessfully?

By: OGS

OGS — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:28:44 +0000

I have not thought this through yet, but some basic functionality in the web interface is maybe even better as more people could benefit. Simply adding the plugin to the player and link a filter + EQ if one uses this should do.

By: Klaas

Klaas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:19:59 +0000

I am thinking about adding some support via the Web-Interface. The problem is that you at least need to enable the plugin for your player and then to select a filter. Enabling the plugin is a bit harder then changing the filter. To change a filter you only need to change a symlink to point to a new filter for your player.

What are the actions you need?

By: OGS

OGS — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:40:53 +0000

Hi again Klaas. I’ve now started testing the new release of bfDRC on a Vortexbox. This works of course and it is nice to see the samplerate issue solved, but I notice that you do not have plans to support the new graphic SB’s soon due to the new UI.
Would it still be possible to have this work for the Touch by directly editing the config files on the server? Skipping the menu UI on the SB itself? Maybe a config script on the console of the server could handle this for the new SB’s

By: OGS

OGS — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:40:20 +0000

I see, one would have to supply the samplerate to sox “on the fly” based on the actual input file format. I’d love to see this work, but I have no programming skills so I can’t help much I’m afraid. I’ll just have to wait.. Thanks Klaas

By: Klaas

Klaas — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:00:36 +0000

Not really out of the box. This is a real issue that is discussed on the slimdevices forum. Right now it is not possible to support different samplerates out of the box. A solution would be to fix the brutefirwrapper script to convert WAV files that include all sample and bitrate informations. Toby (the creator of the wrapper is locking into it) but so far with no results.