Squeezelite add-on issue on Intel NUC box

Third party integrations
1

Squeezelite add-on gives a problem on Intel NUC box (NUC5i3RYK).

The problem:

  • Almost all songs skip short pieces of the music so it sounds terrible. This happens with all type of files, incl. FLAC en MP3 but especially with OGG Vobis. No matter if the native OGG decoder is used or if recoded to Flac.

  • If one or more Picoreplayers are added with synchronization, all the players give the same problem and there is a big synchronization difference between the Picoreplayers and the NUC. De NUC lags about 3 sec behind the Picoreplayers.

  • If the Squeezelite player from the NUC is disabled, all the Picoreplayers work fine, not skipping in the songs and the synchonisation is perfect.

  • The same issue persist if I use a USB external sound card on the NUC.

  • The CPU load is only about 4%, the memory usage about 19%

  • On a different NUC (DN2820FYKH) I have exacly the same problems;

Home Assistant on Intel NUC:
:* Core2024.2.1

  • Supervisor2024.01.1
  • Operating System11.5
  • Frontend20240207.1

Logitech Media Server Versie: 8.3.1
LMS Add-on: 8.3.1.60
Squeezelite Add-on: 0.0.17

piCorePlayer:
v6.1.0 | linux 4.19.122-pcpCore | piCore v10.3pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.9-1386-pCP

2

Is there any way I can tune the Squeezelite add-on in the hope I can resolve this issue?

3

Yes, look at the addon documentation.

4

They’ve already opened an issue with the developer of the add-on.

5

tom_l & nickrout,

Thanks for the response.

@nickrout, I did look at the addon doc but I was not realy helpfull for the problem that I had at hand.
In the meantime I did resolve my issue by changing the Squeezelite build options to “alsa”.

I think that a little explanation on this topic in the addon documentation could really help;

6

That option is mentioned in the docs that i pointed you to.

7

Hi Nick,

I much appreciate your help it might be my lack of language skills but the sentence that I think you refer too was not really very helpful to me:

"Option (optional): output

Audio output device. Please check the log after startup for a list of possible outputs
defult will typically be the HA pulse audio. Using this option casues the addon to use the alsa build rather than the pulse audio build."

What I did was change the Option Build from Pulse to Alsa. I did not change the output field at all.