I didn't want anyone to think I won it, but just left it sitting. It did take a while to get to it.
Right after I got it, I got sick, it took 3+ weeks to feel normal.
I started to load a micro card, all I had around was a 32Gb. For some reason the card reader wouldn't recognize it. I tried SD Formatter, no joy. I called PNY, and they will warranty it. So finally I got a 16Gb at Best Buy $10, they wanted $13 for the 8Gb.
So, Wednesday night, I flashed the card with Volumio, and loaded it into the player. It took me about 2 hours to get it up and running, I missed a lot of the settings at first. Once I got them checked out I was able to play a flash drive to my Lindemann. That was using the laptop to control it. I then got the Wi-fi going on my tablet. It sound pretty good, not as good as playing the same files using JRiver on the laptop straight to the DAC.
Yesterday I took it in the bedroom and got it working with the Benchmark, using it's built in Wi-fi with my tablet controlling it. That took about 15 minutes.
A friend is donating a 256[?] Gb USB drive to the project. Once I get that, I will make some kind of case for it. I plan on loading the drive with late night, bedtime music, to use with the Benchmark.
I wanted to publicly thank Bullethead for his generous gift. THANK YOU!!!
It has been fun getting it up and running.
I have been wondering if Bryston's Raspberry, Hifiberry music player uses a SD card, or if they put in some kind of programmable chip to control it. If we could get our hands on that card, we could build a main system quality player. Besides proprietary firmware, it seems to me that there are three things I would need, a Hifiberry card, a robust linear power supply, they are feeding the player 12v, so then that would need to be regulated to 5v, I think? A small display, but that would be optional, not necessary for SQ. Am I forgetting anything?
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Topic - Bullethead's Raspberry Contest - Winners Update - Jeff Starr 00:29:59 05/13/17 (40)
- RE: Bullethead's Raspberry Contest - Winners Update - bullethead 06:53:32 05/13/17 (2)
- RE: Thanks Again! - Jeff Starr 09:45:22 05/13/17 (1)
- Here's my hifi Berry setup - bullethead 10:35:07 05/13/17 (0)
- RE: Bullethead's Raspberry Contest - Winners Update - soundchekk 05:25:39 05/13/17 (36)
- RE: "* Forget that Hifiberry LoFi stuff." - Ivan303 07:47:32 05/13/17 (1)
- RE: "* Forget that Hifiberry LoFi stuff." - bullethead 10:43:37 05/13/17 (0)
- "There are very nice solutions to any of above topics out there."........... - Cut-Throat 07:09:23 05/13/17 (33)
- He has commented on his approach before - E-Stat 07:28:25 05/13/17 (32)
- Thanks for this.................nt - Cut-Throat 07:42:41 05/13/17 (31)
- RE: Thanks for this.................nt - E-Stat 08:09:31 05/13/17 (30)
- Many roads to audio nirvana... - Ivan303 08:46:11 05/13/17 (29)
- I have a Jameco like that - E-Stat 09:19:46 05/13/17 (28)
- RE: "uRendu/LPS-1" - Ivan303 09:28:10 05/13/17 (27)
- RE: "uRendu/LPS-1" - AbeCollins 19:08:09 05/13/17 (1)
- There is certainly no going back.... - Ivan303 21:13:23 05/13/17 (0)
- "If I ever decide to go with a NAS drive for audio storage, that's would likely be my path as well." - Cut-Throat 12:00:27 05/13/17 (24)
- "So, now completely removed from all of my Computers" - E-Stat 17:57:33 05/15/17 (22)
- Yes, everything is a computer, even my refrigerator...... - Cut-Throat 04:46:33 05/16/17 (17)
- RE: Yes, everything is a computer, even my refrigerator...... - E-Stat 06:27:11 05/16/17 (16)
- If you're making the case that a NAS is a Useless Gadget............... - Cut-Throat 08:31:48 05/16/17 (15)
- Not useless - E-Stat 09:09:43 05/16/17 (14)
- "I prefer simplicity." - Me Too! - That's why I use a NAS.....nt - Cut-Throat 10:46:22 05/16/17 (13)
- Well - E-Stat 11:14:57 05/16/17 (12)
- I also Require a PC........ - Cut-Throat 11:49:12 05/16/17 (11)
- Cute - E-Stat 13:07:39 05/16/17 (10)
- Actually....... - Cut-Throat 13:56:34 05/16/17 (9)
- RE: Actually....... - E-Stat 15:09:35 05/16/17 (8)
- "What you see is the large monitor along............" - Cut-Throat 15:24:44 05/16/17 (7)
- Sorry, no pic was attached - E-Stat 15:42:38 05/16/17 (6)
- Pretty View.................And Finally - Cut-Throat 05:34:06 05/17/17 (5)
- RE: Pretty View.................And Finally - E-Stat 07:16:10 05/17/17 (4)
- " For home shares, I click on a different shortcut. No pain here. ??" - Cut-Throat 07:46:04 05/17/17 (3)
- Gee - E-Stat 08:16:19 05/17/17 (2)
- RE: Yes, but.....................................mt - Ivan303 09:02:19 05/17/17 (1)
- Hey, it's not that hard to say thank you is it ?.............nt - Cut-Throat 14:39:35 05/17/17 (0)
- Not sure I agree, and yet... - Ivan303 20:38:43 05/15/17 (3)
- RE: Not sure I agree, and yet... - E-Stat 21:20:38 05/15/17 (2)
- In my case, if I ran LMS on the i7 Retina iMac in the office... - Ivan303 06:53:18 05/16/17 (1)
- RE: In my case, if I ran LMS on the i7 Retina iMac in the office... - E-Stat 07:45:31 05/16/17 (0)
- Yep, could have given my wife the Mac Mini... - Ivan303 13:50:03 05/13/17 (0)