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In Reply to: RE: Perhaps this will help posted by E-Stat on May 07, 2017 at 09:28:54
Did our usual Sunday bike ride in and about the hill of the Woodside area about 20 mi. south of the city.
But I'm an old retired guy with time on my hands and can't bike all of the waking hours anymore.
I had two specific goals (plus a third which I will mention briefly later) when first deciding on trying the Pi.
First was just to see if I could do it. Haven't done any DIY projects since I left Utah to return to the San Francisco ten years ago.
Second, I wanted to get my Laptop out of the 'easy chair' system in the living room. Plus I needed a way to access the music on my hard drive that is attached to a headless Mac Mini in my main system which is in a loft over the back half of the house. My wife mostly watches movies and TV there in the evening so I sit in the living room downstairs with a laptop, my DAC/headphone amp and stream music (QOBUZ, TIDAL, ETC.) but that means the laptop is tethered to the DAC with a USB cable and no easy way to access the music on the hard drive (not that important as I have ripped only a handful of CDs at this point).
I first tried the SONOS Connect. We have SONOS speaker in the kitchen that my wife likes to use while cooking and it streams QOBUZ and TIDAL and Spotify plus just about every radio station in the country. Sadly, the SONOS Connect sucks for sound quality. So much worse than the MacBook Air USB to my DAC/Headphone Amp that I can't stand to use it. Even on Spotify which is MP3.
The Pi (using PiCoreplayer) does everything I need. It streams QOBUZ, TIDAL and Spotify. It streams music from the hard drive of the Mac Mini in my main system as that's the computer I run LMS on. It sounds very nearly as good as the MacBook Air USB out to my DAC/Headphone Amp even on Hi Rez downloads. And if I get crazy and want to try uRendu or some other LMS compatible player later, it should just be plug and play.
And the user interface is 'usable' if not perfect. Not a nice as the user interface of QOBUZ and TIDAL OS-X players on the laptop, but a full sized iPad is good enough to find what I want to play. Serious music searches on TIDAL and QOBUZ can still be done on the MacBook Air or the iMac in the office.
Third thing?
Gives me a chance to TROLL the 'computer techie experts' who post here. ;-)
Follow Ups:
If you really want to get your DIY creds, you should look at John's Pi project that turns it into a Squeezebox Touch with a touch screen.
-Rod
is that it's small and 'headless', and can sit out of the way behind the DAC/Headphone amp where it's out of sight and out of mind.
An iPad works fine as a controller.
in fact it is so small and the Audio-GD Master 11 is so large perhaps the great DIY project would be to somehow mount it inside!
AND figure out how use the Audio-GD's superior linear 5V supply to run it!
nt
Cut-Throat
Mine hangs on a garage closet wall. :)
I'm planning on buying mine the HiFiBerry metal case and some small, Sorbothane footers.
Pic in gallery. Have since changed to optical connection and battery power.
I like the naked acrylic look. :)
And the Digi+ Standard model?
The onboard WiFi isn't particularly sensitive so I put an access point on the other side of the wall at the same loacation.I could have configured it as a bridge and use Ethernet, but I also have a nearby Canary security camera which also needs WiFi access. I'm quite pleased with the results. Since I use neither an I2S interface nor have any DSD content, I'm staying put with my older release of PcP.
Edits: 05/09/17
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