squeezelite and USB DAC

[Killerbee]

@mk01

Thanks you (again) for your feedback!

Sorry for not explaining about squeezeslave and Squeezelite .
Both are slaves (clients) for the squeezebox server.

Squeezelite is a very lightweight client daemon developed by Triode. He is also the author of the spotify plugin for squeezebox server. This makes is possible to listen to my favorite music and watch my favorite movies using my Xbian pi .
Squeezebox server is running on another (512Mb) pi.

Squeezeslave is more or less the same as squeezelite, except it's not possible to run it in combination with the spotify plugin. It doesn't play ogg files.
One advantage of squeezeslave is that is has some kind of a GUI.

The current version of firmware I am using is:

Terminal

Nov 28 2013 21:11:14
Copyright © 2012 Broadcom
version 97d9a116746b859d0ccceef55b6cbd96b801f5a8 (clean) (release)

apt-get-versions xbian-package-firmware shows this:

Terminal

xbian-package-firmware/devel uptodate 1.4-9

This version of the firmware doesn't solve the cracking sound issue.

Some more information:
When I hear a cracking sound or a verrrryyy sslowwwww ssssoundddd CPU is quite low.
When I stop xbmc the CPU doesn't even goes get higher than 40%

So indeed I agree with you it's seems to be a USB issue. That's why i'd like to try the alpha 5 firmware. Just to check if crackling sound is gone.

KB