jring
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Hi,
since some have asked about using a raspberry pi as a music player before - and the resulting challenges with it's not so ideal USB implementation, I'll post the link to two projects I just found - I hope it hasn't been posted before but I didn't find anything on it while searching the forum...
http://www.tjaekel.com/T-DAC/raspi.html
It's a little DAC board with a PCM1794A connecting to the RPi via I2S and supported by current raspbian kernels - unlike before when I2S audio on RPi required higher unix wizardry...
Full DIY documentation seems available although it's not really open hardware as commercial use is prohibited.
There also seems to be a software project called volumio (http://volumio.org/) for RPi and some other little arm boards which can use this DAC (and lots of others) as a headless music player playing music from your USB disc or NAS while being operated via client programs on phone, tablet or PC or web client. This is basically a similar setup like I built some years ago on a different arm device but as easy as putting an RPi image on to an SD Card...
Has anybody messed around with either? I'll at least have a look at volumio and post what I saw...
Not yet sure about the DAC as I have an ODAC which is running fine on my current rig (and maybe on RPi too nowadays - there was a lot of work being done on the USB problems). Also the RPi DAC seems to require almost superhuman fine pitch/QFP SMD soldering skills (or a reflow oven or rework station) - although the designer offers PCBs with the most tricky parts presoldered at very reasonable prices.
Joachim
since some have asked about using a raspberry pi as a music player before - and the resulting challenges with it's not so ideal USB implementation, I'll post the link to two projects I just found - I hope it hasn't been posted before but I didn't find anything on it while searching the forum...
http://www.tjaekel.com/T-DAC/raspi.html
It's a little DAC board with a PCM1794A connecting to the RPi via I2S and supported by current raspbian kernels - unlike before when I2S audio on RPi required higher unix wizardry...
Full DIY documentation seems available although it's not really open hardware as commercial use is prohibited.
There also seems to be a software project called volumio (http://volumio.org/) for RPi and some other little arm boards which can use this DAC (and lots of others) as a headless music player playing music from your USB disc or NAS while being operated via client programs on phone, tablet or PC or web client. This is basically a similar setup like I built some years ago on a different arm device but as easy as putting an RPi image on to an SD Card...
Has anybody messed around with either? I'll at least have a look at volumio and post what I saw...
Not yet sure about the DAC as I have an ODAC which is running fine on my current rig (and maybe on RPi too nowadays - there was a lot of work being done on the USB problems). Also the RPi DAC seems to require almost superhuman fine pitch/QFP SMD soldering skills (or a reflow oven or rework station) - although the designer offers PCBs with the most tricky parts presoldered at very reasonable prices.
Joachim
