Raspberry pi bitperfect usb1/8/2024 ![]() ![]() RuneAudio worked fine, although it did have one little trick that's worth mentioning: After installing RuneAudio on your SD card, find the "Config.txt" file on the SD card and make the change outlined here: So I said screw it and loaded RuneAudio onto the SD card instead of Volumio and went through the setup process again. Searching through Volumio's forums, the only response I saw was to plug the drive in through a powered USB hub, which I had done. No matter what I did, Volumio staunchly refused to recognize the contents of my USB drive, when it bothered to recognize the drive at all. I powered it down through the web interface (never yank the power cord out without powering it down from the web interface first or you could corrupt the SD card), disconnected the ethernet adapter, and hooked it up to my Bifrost Multibit and to the USB HDD with my music on it through a powered USB 2.0 hub, since the Pi doesn't have enough power to handle a USB HDD without an external power supply (it's fine with USB sticks though).Īnd here was my first problem. From there, I enabled the wifi adapter, connected to my wifi, and loaded the driver for the Hifiberry board. Right from the get go I was able to use it as headless, although I did have to find send my internet browser to the IP address of the device to get it to connect. Once it finished writing, I popped the SD card into the Pi, attached it to my router via ethernet, plugged in the wifi adapter, and turned it on. I went to Volumio's website and downloaded their RPi2 distro, then installed that to my SD card using Win32 Disk Imager (this process is well detailed in the HF thread I linked to, as well as in the CA article). Putting the case together was a snap as well. Since I have a gazillion micro USB cables and plugs, I didn't order a charger for the Pi, nor did I need a micro SD card as I already had one.Īttaching the Digi+ board to the Pi was incredibly easy, with a 30-pin attachment readily visible. ![]() Most of the items I ordered can be found in the Computer Audiophile article: If I didn't like it better than my Macbook Air, I wouldn't be out much and could repurpose the Pi to use as a video streamer or something similar. The clincher for me was that I could give it a try for just over $100, which in audio is pretty much chump change. May not sound as good as more expensive sources (debatable) Several audiophile distros to choose fromĮasy to add SPDIF options (some devices include them on board)Ī little DIY know how needed (easily conquered by some Google searches)ĭistros may not be as rock solid as established desktop software The pros of this sort of system added up very quickly:Ĭan be run headless with the right distros I got interested in trying the Raspberry Pi 2 as a music player when I saw this thread on HF:Īs well as a few posts in the digital transport thread here: We can also discuss (and possibly help troubleshoot) the various audiophile distros for these devices, such as Volumio and RuneAudio and such. Let's use this thread to discuss the Raspberry Pi, Udoo, Cubox, Beaglebone, Compulab Utilite, Cubietruck, Odroid, and so on. I figured it was worth separating out discussion of the Raspberry Pi and similar low cost DIY-ish options from the general digital transport thread.
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