This confused me a bit the first time I used dBPoweramp. It asked me to set a "level" for dynamic range with a choice of arbitrary numbers and "unlimited." I set it to unlimited. After all, FLAC is lossless, or at least it's supposed to be. Limiting the dynamic range in any way alters the data from...

There ought to be a Hakai directory for music suggestion. Extra points for new music suggestions - cheers Kith! Some music is really useful when tuning/evaluating/auditing audio systems. The stock Snakeoil sound is pretty much focused on vocals and pin-point localisation. The cost of that is the ba...

HDCD is old tech now. I sold my twenty year old Linn Ikemi which had HDCD. Can't think of a single HDCD (I had a few hundred) that isn't remastered & improved. Off topic a tad, play this HDCD if you have it: https://www.discogs.com/Yim-Hok-Man-Master-Of-Chinese-Percussion/release/9919338 I have 5 v...

Initial listening impressions, I like the plain Debian Stretch install better. Richer sounding and more musical. That's a fair call. I reckon there's room for improvement in Snakeoil too. The idea for snakeoil is, make a few options and you get a "richer sounding and more musical" experience. Chang...

I can't see how to get both upmpdcli AND MPD enabled. They are mutually exclusive choices as Server, and only upmpdcli is listed under Client. When selected, it is not recognised by the control point. Selecting upmpdcli will automatically start MPD. I'd improve the GUI to make it clearer in the nex...

No trash can is present unless I click on "Add Mount Point". Is there something missing? Looks like you have already specified those mount points during the installation stage (GUI install). If you want to remove those entries, you have to do so by editing the file "/etc/fstab". Remove those entrie...

I know a lot of guys on the parallel forum down under (https://www.stereo.net.au/forums/topic/82802-building-the-idealish-music-server/?tab=comments#comment-1356167) use the Process Priority part of the software to tweak it. Is there a user guide to maximising that part of the software? Play some m...

Are you are stating unambiguously that ideal equipment set-up, including software, is extremely important and the key to a great sounding hi-fi? If so, you will find almost all posters on this Forum in agreement. My philosophy towards hifi is everybody is his own man. i.e. Everybody has their own v...

Thanks, Agent Kith! I've already got a perfectly good dedicated music server (Win7 and Asset UPnP). I only put a music SSD into the Snakeoil system because I couldn't get Snakeoil (as a player/renderer) to see the music server. A single box renderer/server is NOT my destination. That'd be a good se...

Set at 100%. But I notice the Audio State box at the top of that page states that USB Audio "device is closed", despite being In Use lower down the page. I'd see if I can rephrase that in the future. Audio State at the top is showing you the current status of the audio device. i.e. whether it's cur...

Welcome to the rabbit hole, Agent Kith! It's my pleasure. Thanks guys :) Thank you. That guide was very useful for helping me better understand what LVM is and what it does, but when it comes to describing how to implement LVM it still left me in a state of, "but how do I...". I came across this: h...

Hi everybody. Sorry I'm late. Apparently enabling LVM during install makes this possible, but I need to learn how. In the mean time I have mounted one of the 600gig drives under /media/music and transferred most of my music onto it. It works...mostly (more on that later). You can follow the guide he...