Just download the new version from Sourceforge. Note that it is only tested with the current stable version 7.4.0.

By the way: a few warnings are logged to the squezzeboxserver log, just ignore them for now. I am going to use the non deprecated versions of the mentioned functions in the next release.

A few things to keep in mind when updating:

1. The plugin directory for BrutefirDRC must be read and writeable for the squeezeboxcenter process
2. Change the preferences of BrutefirDRC to use the new path to your filters and settings, if you changed them
3. Change the filter files to use the new path if you moved them: i.e. my filters have been changed to
   “filename: “/etc/squeezeboxserver/BrutefirDrc/filters/filtername.pcm”; from “filename: “/etc/squeezecenter/BrutefirDrc/filters/filtername.pcm”;”
   The filter examples on sourceforge contain the new path to squeezeboxserver, to be consistent with the new name.

Important after installation: Delete the old custom-convert.conf or delete all BrutefirDRC specific lines from it. The Plugin now writes a custom-convert.conf in it’s home directory. The old file is no longer used!

Features:

• Support to stream in PCM (raw format, former WAV), FLAC or MP3
• Plugin can be enabled or disabled for any player without restarting SqueezeCenter
• Conversion Type can be changed for any player without restarting SqueezeCenter
• custom-convert.conf is written to the plugin home directory
• brutefirwrapper now in Plugins Bin directory: helps to identify the plugin conversions in WebGUI file types dialog all plugin related conversions are displayed as “[format]/brutefirwrapper”
• sox is used from SqueezeCenter installation no need to install it manually in Version 14.x

If you have any problems with a file format not working try to disable all other conversion for the file type. I needed to disable other conversion options for ogg to work properly.

If you have any problems drop me a note.

Notes:

• needed to remove the support for sampling rates in non MP3 files different to “44100″ because of a bug/feature within the new transcoding framework. See the thread Significant changes to transcoding framework and the corresponding bug report for more information about the issue.
• SOX 1.14.x is needed because of changes in the command line interface
• SqueezeCenter 7.3.2 is needed because of the new transcoding framework
• small changes that have been in the SVN for a long time are out now
• tested with: flac, mp3 and ogg

If you have any problems with a file format not working try to disable all other conversion for the file type. I needed to disable other conversion options for ogg to work properly.

If you have problems with other file formats drop me a note.

Features:

• Blind testing: fast switching of tested filters via holding the “1-button” on the remote control while in “Now Playing”
• Full Support for audio files with non 44100 sampling rates.
• automatic rewriting of custom-convert.conf on startup of plugin to make update easier

Features:

• Blind testing support for filters
• Support for audio files with non 44100 sampling rates. MP3 are automatically converted via SOX
• better default directories
• Manual for all features on web page

SVN is up and running and the first release is uploaded. The homepage for BrutefirDrc will remain at this site though.

There is a new Version 0.91 including this new python script and a couple of other features:

• gap less playback
• filters may be organized in directories and more directories
• direct menu link to attenuation to prevent clipping due to filter amplification (I need 3dB of attenuation)
• the menu now browses as it should be (the animations have been messed up previously)
• some bug fixes and beautifications

To install it you have to follow some steps:

1. remove the old “BrutefirDrc” Plugin directory and replace it with the one from you can download at the BrutefirDrc sourceforge page.
2. restart SqueeceCenter
3. use the remote control and enable the plugin again for all clients that should use it (yeah it states that it is enabled, but the custom-convert.conf file must be rewritten to include the wrapper)
4. make sure that you have “/tmp” dir that is writeable by the brutefir user (the wrapper stores the reverberation tail here)
5. restart SqueeceCenter another time
6. everything should work again

The originally discussion and some more information can be found at: Slimdevices Thread about BrutefirDRC