Brutefir release?

[Boborah]

Is there any progress on releasing a newer version of Brutefir?

I use a Linux server and have tried hard to get Inguz working on it
with no success. I need Brutefir to be useable with a Squeezebox Touch
(that's all I have!) or through SbS or LMS.

Any thoughts?

Bob

[Olav Sunde]

I too use a Touch with BrutefirDRC and SbS. (on a Netgear Readynas Pro 2 Plus at the moment) Works very nice. Toby is working on putting together the new release, but it is taking time. Part of it is my fault as some code I have contrubuted to help select filters in the HTML view contains bugs. I hope to get this sorted soon...

[Mervin Beng]

I am using the current version of brutefir with SBT and it works fine. My server's running ubuntu (was Maverick, but I upgraded to Natty / 11.04), and I'm already using a 3.0 kernel.

Is there a reason you are asking for a 'newer' version?

Regards,
Mervin

[Boborah]

I asked for a newer version as I am given the impression from the
Brutefir web page and the squeezebox forums that the current version
of Brutefir (1.20?) doesn't work with Touch or SbS/LMS.

It was mentioned that a newer version would be released soon that
would work with SbS - not sure if it would work with Touch though.

I'll give the current version a try but I'm flailing around in the
dark here - so any help would be much appreciated :)

Thanks for replying.

Bob

[Boborah]

First hurdle :(

Does anyone have a BruteFIR binary for intel i386/686? Does it have
dependencies?

Thanks

Bob

[Mervin Beng]

I guess there's a need to distinguish brutefir and brutefirDRC (that uses brutefir to serve up room-corrected audio streams to players like SBS).

bfDRC does not directly support the SBTouch, but there are enough instructions to set it up nicely. There is no remote setting of filters, but once configured, bfDRC functions quite transparently as a plugin to the SBServer.

The first step is to get SBServer running on linux (ubuntu naatty recommended as that's what I have experience with), then compile brutefir (the filter), and measure your room to generate the filters. With this you can make brutefir generate corrected audio files for you to test (manually). The final step is then to configure bfDRC as a plugin to SBServer. Frankly that's the relatively easy part as someone has done that and can help (me!). To me the challenging part is measuring the room and generate reasonable filters to use as a starting point.

Mervin

[Boborah]

OK - need some basic help here!

I have the BruteFIR source code but need some (a lot!) of help
compiling it for my a NAS. The NAS is a QNAP TS-809 (Intel x86 64bit
CPU) which runs under a 'Busybox' version of Linux. I tried using the
'Makefile' with GCC but it doesn't compile. I think there are some
libraries missing and the paths (/usr/local/lib ...etc) in Makefile
are not suitable for the NAS. The usual place for these on the NAS is /
opt/ ... etc. As a start, Is it a matter of editing the Makefile to
take account of this?

Bob