Tidal and Spotify source for Naim using a RaspberryPi

Posted by: MDOwens on 16 March 2015

Dear All,

I have setup Tidal and Spotify as a feed into my UnitiQute (or ND 5XS) using a RaspberryPi, a plug-in audio card and some free software. The trick is Logitech Media Server and Squeezebox - both now freely available. Logitech Media Server is running on a PC or Mac and configured to access Tidal and Spotify using a software "plug-in" called ickStream. Rather than using a Logitech Squeezebox player I am using a RaspberryPi, a plug-in Wolfson audio card and Squeezelite software. The Wolfson card is connected to the Naim streamer using a Digital SPDIF connector - so no loss of sound quality. The system is controlled by an app on the phone "Squeezebox Controller". Total cost less than £50. Needs Spotify Premium and/or Tidal subscriptions.

Watch out that only specific (older) versions of the RaspberryPi have the audio connector that the Wolfson card needs.

Sources of information:

Wolfson card documentation:

(Open up the "Documentation" menu option)

Logitech Media Server installation:

http://wiki.ickstream.com/inde...eezebox_Installation

Squeezelite installation guide:

http://www.tsls.co.uk/index.ph...lay-and-squeezelite/

Squeezelite Installation and all RaspberryPi stuff:

http://www.tsls.co.uk/index.ph...lay-and-squeezelite/

The only gap in these instructions is that you also need to download the "squeezelite_settings.sh" file from the website and make a couple of changes to it.

In summary, you need to download the Wolfson RaspberryPi image from their website and use this as the basis of the RaspberryPi rather than using a standard RaspberryPi operating system image.

The instructions are good so no special knowledge of Linux is really necessary (though it would help).