BrutefirDrc broken on Vortexbox 2.3

[Olav Sunde]

BrutefirDrc is broken on Vortexbox 2.3 with LMS 7.8 that comes with 2.3 and also 7.9 from squeezecommunity repo. With both versions path to 'filters' is not handled correctly. Softlink to the filter is created as if the filter resides in 'settings' and not in 'filters', even if the brutefirdrc config file at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/plugin seem to be correct:

ll /etc/squeezeboxserver/BrutefirDrc/settings
......
lrwxrwxrwx 1 squeezeboxserver   24 Aug 30 18:06 filter-00_04_20_xx_xx_xx -> partial_192.txt


and not


ll /etc/squeezeboxserver/BrutefirDrc/settings
......
lrwxrwxrwx 1 squeezeboxserver   24 Aug 30 18:06 filter-00_04_20_xx_xx_xx -> /etc/squeezeboxserver/BrutefirDrc/filters/partial_192.txt
'
A temporary workaround here is to create a softlink to the actual filter inside 'settings' like this:

'ln -s /etc/squeezeboxserver/BrutefirDrc/filters/partial_192.txt partial_192.txt'


Also, none of these LMS versions come with sox. The hardcoded path to sox in brutefirwrapper line 217 '/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/i386-linux/sox' is no longer correct. One workaround is a softlink to '/usr/bin/sox' where brutefirwrapper expects to find sox, the other is to change line 217 to 'sox', so that sox is found via PATH.
In addition some commands that brutefirwrapper passes to sox is deprecated:

/usr/bin/sox WARN sox: Option `-f' is deprecated, use `-e floating-point' instead.
/usr/bin/sox WARN sox: Option `-4' is deprecated, use `-b 32' instead.

[Olav Sunde]

Klaas, no response from you on this one?

Regards Olav

[robert....@btinternet.com]

I have the same problem on Wandboard Olave. Using your workaround works for me - hopefully klass will be able to fix it.

Bob

[Olav Sunde]

Glad that is also works on your Wandboard installation. Are you getting good sound quality?

Unfortunately I have not heard from Klaas in a long time. I really hope he is OK.

Mervin, are you still reading the forum? Maybe you could help us out here?

Olav

[Klaas Reineke]

Hi there,

I am still alive but my personal life (read family) is taking up all my time. I moved my speakers six months ago and still did not remeasure my room. The last time I listened to music is a few months ago. I archived all emails and I try to fix/check every issue encountered, but right now I cannot do it; sorry.

Regards Klaas

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[Olav Sunde]

Hello Klaas, very pleased to know that you are well! My workaround seems to fix issues presently so I guess we can live with that for some time.

Regards
Olav

[robert....@btinternet.com]

Hi Olav,

Sound quality is good, I have it working on Wandboard, Touch, Boom and Radio. I'm only using it for Equalization at the moment not with room correction or loudness control - also on flac, not tried PCM.

Hopefully I'll be moving house soon so will be able to try room correction and loudness then.

Bob

PS - good to see Klaas is reading the forum.

[Olav Sunde]

Answering to myself here. Pity it is not possible to edit posts on google groups. Anyway; I've looked a bit more at this. It is actually ' /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/plugin/brutefirdrc.prefs' that is not written correctly. Path to the filter is not added, just the filter file name. The parameter 'currentfilterpath' (within the plugin) is not handled properly. This should return '/etc/squeezeboxserver/BrutefirDrc/filters/+filtername' , but only 'filtername' is written.
Also, player name is not displayed in the selection drop-down in the web UI. You'll see mac(mac) rather than mac(playername). I have not come closer to finding a solution, but I have a feeling (the new version of) Perl is part of it.
The workaround is still valid.

Olav