Orange5o
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I should have said "yet" on some of the softwares not supporting i2s. Definitely expect it to. I wanted to do nvme with the pi2aes Mercury but there were reports of overheating and I sold the unit. I like the idea but external to my Rock works great.I run mpd on alpine linux. I did use the pi2aes with a raspberry pi 4 before upgrading to the pi 5. I do think the 5 was a noticeable improvement sonically.
I will say I would be very surprised if moode stopped supporting i2s on the raspberry pi 5 (edit: If they haven't updated the underlying OS in their releases to Bookworm I could see that being a blocker but once they do, which I would bet is soon, it should be no problem). I had absolutely no issues switching my setup over to the pi 5. In fact, I upgraded my alpine linux to the latest version while I was still on the pi 4, made sure all the latest drivers were in place, then literally just took the sd card out, put it in the pi 5, assembled everything and booted up with no problems.
Since the raspberry pi uses the device tree overlay (dtoverlay) system for drivers, I can see absolutely no reason why moode would have to stop supporting i2s devices on the pi 5. AFAIK the drop down that lets you choose "Hifiberry Digi+ Pro" or whatever it is for your i2s device in moode, is just enumerating the dtoverlay files. Last time I looked at moode (admittedly quite a few months ago), they were still using mpd with alsa behind the scenes; exactly what I'm doing. In my case I have no fancy dropdown, I just reference the correct dtoverlay file in a config file and reboot.
Also nice thing about the pi 5 is you can get an expansion board to run NVMe storage.
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Really nice. I love the genre, especially some of the artists that lean more Appalachian or American Primitive (early Daniel Bachman, Glenn Jones, Jack Rose, etc, it's still a small but vibrant genre, I've really gotten into Matthew J Rolin as well)