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In Reply to: RE: RPi-2 + Volumio posted by Audio Bling on February 19, 2015 at 17:50:53
Thx for the info. I kind of expected that.
I think I also wrote in that or another thread related to these new ARM boards that "I'm waiting for the dust to settle"
From my experience it takes several months (>6) to get new ARM boards, related firmware, drivers and OS working in a rather acceptable way.
For the RPI Rev1 it was even longer than that. No. RPI Rev1 actually never got stable. But that's been a HW problem.
For me it's been the B+ where operation finally got stable.
I would not recommend to jump on the train at such an early stage.
Volumio can't do anything if firmware and drivers are not stable.
These guys just take what's there.
Cheers
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OK. Now for the whole story..I can manage to get Volumio going on the RPi-2 for short periods of time before it throws a fit. What I heard initially was good. When I tried the RAMPLAY mode the fidelity lifted a notch or two. There is quite a natural sound to it and I would rate it highly were it not for the problems that are currently plaguing it. Another issue is that the RAM size of the Pi means that one is constrained to approx 250mb loaded at any one time. This means one has to be moving files in and out of RAM constantly were they to be of moderate size and perhaps blocked entirely if they were greater than the threshold. Not convenient.
Given the above experience, what would really interest me is an arm-linux box with much more RAM & SATA or MSATA storage for OS. The latter because the controllers on SD cards are uniformly unreliable, IMO. And of course, one needs good community support as you have pointed out. As yet, the ducks haven't lined up..
Edit: Just to clarify, my comment relating to RAM size is only relevant for RAMPLAY which I consider to be the best. One also has the option of NAS or USB playback where there is no such limitation.
Edits: 02/20/15
That's why I'm also running a Cubitruck for quite some time.It comes with SATA, 2GB RAM, GB ethernet and more.
Beside that you can run it with batteries and/or 5V.
Ethernet and USB are separated.
Volumio and SOA, both support the Cubitruck.
The OS and firmware is quite stable -- now.I use it as server (audio/NAS) and player and DSP (crossover/equalization).
Cheers
Edits: 02/20/15
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