David Reitter - 2006-11-12

We've been having problems with synchronizing several players and I was pretty annoyed with the Java implementation, so squeezeslave was heaven-sent (thank you!).

However, I can't get it to work on OS X 10.4 - it just doesn't play anything. The list of audio devices it prints is

0: Built-in Audio
1: BTHS
2: Built-in Audio
3: BTHS

I've tried giving it a "-o 2" (-o 0 doesn't work - bad device, it says!). In that case, I get

Volume for audio channel 1 was <= 0.10 so set to 0.90 by PortAudio!
Volume for audio channel 2 was <= 0.10 so set to 0.90 by PortAudio!
Error in recv 1: Bad file descriptor

When I give it a URL to the stream, it says "Connection to slimserver http://localhost:9000/stream.mp3 failed.". It does manage to turn the volume down, though!

iTunes plays fine from that very same URL (but iTunes can't synchronize...).

Softsqueeze 3.2.1 plays fine. (The website states that 2.0 is the version to get -- ???)

Is there documentation to be read about squeezeslave?

Any hints appreciated - and thanks for working on this!