Raspberry Pi anyone?

Posted by: Honeyquince on 14 July 2014

Hi everyone,

 

I was hoping to get back into streaming having previously run a vortexbox which sadly died . My original plan was for a V1 with a mac mini but now that the money has been spent on a new car, sofa.... etc. I'm investigating some of the cheaper options. I will keep my Beresford Caiman DAC, NAC 72 and NAP150 but have been looking at either a Raspberry Pi or a Cubox running Volumio. I think I would store the rips on a usb hard drive. Hopefully this would come in at something less than £200 - a more realistic budget lol.

 

Does anyone have any experience of doing this or something similar, is it realistic for a deluded techie newbie and how about the sound quality? In the absence of streaming I find myself using Spotify rather than the arduous task of putting a new CD on and there's a lamp in the way!

 

It feels like a bit of a dogs dinner of a system but needs must as they say - my dreams of an elegant solution seem to have faded, or were erased remarkably quickly.

 

Any thoughts or observations gratefully received.

 

Robert

Posted on: 04 August 2014 by mickdann

I found the following post in the Asset Forums very helpful in getting my Raspberry Pi / Asset uPNP system going:

 

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/sh...iewfull=1#post141458

 

I use a pair of Connected Data Transporters (with 2TB disks) to store my WAV files, one at home on at work. They automatically sync ensuring I've always got a backup in a remote location, so in the event of disk failure, fire, theft etc. I won't be faced with ripping all my CD's again (Phew!) They are also virtually silent, unlike most other NAS systems.

 

http://www.filetransporter.com

 

 

 

Posted on: 06 August 2014 by Lunicycle

This is the best upn renderer I have come across so  far. https://github.com/PeteManches...Install-Raspberry-Pi .  The other one mentioned above doesn't do gapless and seems to click for no apparent reason, so a non starter. The good one also has a little web server which allows you to stop and start the service and shutdown or reboot the RPi. It also looks up lyrics and artist biographies which is quite fun.

Posted on: 09 August 2014 by DavidDever

One might also wish to look at any of the ARM-based (Marvell Kirkwood, armv5tel) Pogoplug devices (by Cloud Engines, Inc.), which are extremely inexpensive right now--these use a mainline Linux kernel & U-Boot, are well supported (especially via ArchLinuxARM) and can be (if one were so inclined) modified to run off a low-noise 5V supply.

 

A simple USB stick can run the entire OS, along with an external USB drive for media storage, and the supporting hardware inside the devices is really top notch.

Posted on: 04 October 2014 by Lunicycle

Anyone know anything about this?

 

http://www.audiophonics.fr/fr/...y-pi-dac-p-9009.html

 

 

Posted on: 04 October 2014 by Lunicycle

BTW: It is called a

AUDIOPHONICS DAP /

DAC SABRE ES9018 RASPBERRY PI

DAC

and costs around £330 

 

Posted on: 05 October 2014 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Interesting.. It looks like Pi has its own seperate PSU which if the case feels like a sensible thing... But I would have wanted to see some shielding between the Pi and DAC stages.

Simon