squeezelite and USB DAC

[mk01]

@Killerbee

as B2 is very very VERY nice to CPU system resources I would be surprised if buffer / dedicated process / zram or autodefrag would help. at least you are sure.

following the changes for past moths my personal guess is less kernel more firmware. although the USB BAD BAD RPI design will never be corrected, past kernel patches going to this direction were more to a benefit and not making things worse. you can check raspbian forum discussions searching for audio or external audio or similar.

what firmware you currently have? the stock beta2 (oct 2013 - 1.4-7) or -8 (nov 2013 release according to users and popcornmix version solving passthrough skipping / problems) or -9 (dec 2013).

I don't have preference there, but 1.4-7 (or even -6) was quite without reported issues for whole month until we released -7 with B2. passthrough DTS/HD/ES/whatever issues and fixes always fixed one issue and created two new - please take this as general info.

but if you tell me the version I can install the same and try attaching one 8ch 32bit USB sound card or another 8ch digital audio mixer.
last time I checked I played 2ch with no issues - but not through squeezeslave. what is it anyway???