Sound Output

oldskater · Post by **oldskater** » 01 Aug 2014 12:30

I tried a year or so ago to get sound working on my N4F box without success.
The main reason for this is I would love to be able to use Subsonic in Jukebox mode which I currently have running in a jail.
Has anyone ever had success with this? Any help or guidance would be most appreciated.

Post by **crowi** » 01 Aug 2014 12:55

The problem is, that BSD was designed for Server applications and not for multimedia machines

And NAS4free is even stripped down to the core of the system, where most of non needed stuff is removed, it is by design a Network attached Storage, no jukebox

Here's a thread on Freenas about this topic.

http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?thr ... port.9997/

oldskater · Post by **oldskater** » 01 Aug 2014 14:53

Thanks for the reply crowi.
It was worth asking. I can live without it.

Post by **crowi** » 01 Aug 2014 15:08

if you are familiar with freeBSD, you can add the sound driver manually or compile it to your kernel:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885 ... setup.html

oldskater · Post by **oldskater** » 06 Aug 2014 11:45

Thanks for the link. Is this possible to do solely within a jail? or would it have to be done on the host (nas4free)?

Edit: It looks like my sound driver is loaded by default on N4F. This is the output of

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cat /dev/sndstat

FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1981HD (Analog 2.0+HP)> (play) default
pcm1: <Analog Devices AD1981HD (Rear Digital)> (play)

So maybe there is some hope I can get this working

kenZ71 · Post by **kenZ71** » 07 Aug 2014 13:42

Just my opinion but why not use a smartphone, tablet or even a used ipod hooked upto some Bluetooth speakers?

oldskater · Post by **oldskater** » 07 Aug 2014 15:23

kenZ71 wrote:Just my opinion but why not use a smartphone, tablet or even a used ipod hooked upto some Bluetooth speakers?

Yes that works, and I have other workarounds, so it's no big deal. But for me it would have been a more elegant solution.
I have Subsonic running in a jail, and can access that from other devices no problem. But I have a nice amp sat next to my N4f with 2 lots of speakers hooked up in different rooms.
So it would be nice to be able to run Subsonic in 'jukebox' mode from a phone or whatever and play directly through my amp.
Like you say there are other ways to do it, which i use now. It just would have been nice for me to get it working. And I like a challenge.
But thanks for the suggestion.

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