I'm reposting the text from this thread here as I think it's going to get lost in the firmware release announcement thread... ADMIN if you disagree,  please step in and take this out:


 Hello .... I've upgraded to 1.3 ... it looks to be working fine,  but for some reason I've lost the local squeezelite player it will not start... I get this in the log:

**** 2024-01-17T01:09:56
**** Squeezelite (ralph)

Start Player: cd /var/www;_NAME="Basement Stereo" _OUTPUT="hw:0,1" _FORMAT="pcm" _OPTIONS="" _MIPV4="24:4f:4f:24:08:8c" /var/www/players/Squeezelite-ralph/init /var/www/players/Squeezelite-ralph 2>&1;/var/www/players/Squeezelite-ralph/start /var/www/players/Squeezelite-ralph 2>&1;


I started with 1.8 .... and installed ralph   ....   I've stopped and restarted it a few times and REST,  finally shows that its running,   but I don't see it on LMS or in top

Not sure how many people use RAMDisk but for me, it provides better SQ than playing music on disk or from network drive.  This is enabled in SnakeOil / Hardware tab.  (And use Browse tab to push music to RAMDisk).



My NUC has lots of free memory, but I allow for plenty of spare room.  There are 2 ways to enable RAM disk, tmpfs and ramfs.  From AK in the Wiki
 

Quote:tmpfs
tmpfs has more checks and balances. You'll never run out of memory with this type. If your system runs out of space, the Operating System will automatically swap out unused memory blocks into swap space. The upside is increased stability. The downside is memory swapping incurs a penalty and may result in lessor audio quality.

ramfs
This is the more unstable version of a RAM disk. The Operating System will not swap out your memory. If you specify a size that's too big and the system has run out of RAM, the whole machine will freeze in ithe worst case scenerio. The upside is you are assured of the lowest possible latency in music playback. The downside is you got to really know what you're doing.

Version: 1.3.0 (Measurements U0)   OS Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Hardware: Pi2Design Mercury V2 Streamer (CM4)

LMS gave the following error: Start Player: cd /var/www;/var/www/players/lms/start /var/www/players/lms 2>&1;

Not sure why, but SO downloads LMS 8.3.2 when the website has 8.3.1.  I tried installing 8.3.1, but SO gave this message: Uploaded file is not meant for your CPU  !

I hope you're having a lovely Christmas if you celebrate it in any shape or form!

Introduction
Announcing the release of Snakeoil Measurements. In this update Snakeoil has yet again moved a new direction is moving to a more relaxed environment allowing anybody to download and try Snakeoil without a forum account. Believe it or not this is a pretty major step forward.


Changelog
So what's changed? It's all happening mostly behind the scenes. 

• Better and more powerful servers with more CPUs, bigger storage capacity and slightly more Internet bandwidth. Useful for that vapourware feature I kept talking about.
  
• Improved the build pipeline time by building the WebApp only once and re-use it for all builds. This shaves about 8 minutes per pipeline.
  
• Other parts of the build system is also simplified. Have removed a NextCloud service (bloated) to a simple HTTP server for hosting files. This just saves system administration time and lessen the chance of downtime. Daily backups are still happening so we only lose a day worth of data at worst
  
• Free for all to download. Anybody can just download Snakeoil now without first registering an account. I hope I have the confidence and know how in this day and age to detect and detect any DDOS attacks
  
• Moving away from Patreon and Paypal to buymeacoffee.com as the first two is just so time consuming. This process isn't over yet though as I have yet to apply for an ABN to make this official (An Australian thing).
  
• One step install for first time users! Not as great as it sounds, but it's the best I can do for now. More on this later. 
  
• Some libraries and softwares have been updated to a later version. They are documented in git commits but cannot remember off hand the details now. Most players are still the same as the last 1.2.x update for now just so to minimise potential of shock.
  

• Ubuntu for Intel/AMD CPUs (X86_64)
  
• Raspberry Pi Bookworm (aarch64)
  
• Ubuntu Pi (aarch64)
  

• Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm, Ubuntu 22.04, 23.10
  
• AMD/Intel: Ubuntu 23.10, 22.04, 20.04
  

• Logitech Media Server not starting in Raspberry Pi Bookworm
  To fix this, manually SSH to the snakeoil machine, and run the following commands:
  PHP Code:

  wget https://artifacts.snakeoil-os.net/players/lms/logitechmediaserver_latest_arm.deb
sudo dpkg -i logitechmediaserver_latest_arm.deb
rm logitechmediaserver_latest_arm.deb 

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