Moode Player Help

[mikeyb]

Hi,

Moode supports Raspberry Pi family of boards and Raspbian OS.

-Tim

Hi Tim,

No worries, I've ditched the Sparky and fitted the Kali Reclocker and Piano 2.1 DAC to my Pi and using MoOde it's sounding excellent.

[Dunluce978]

Hope you guys don't mind me asking a question that might have been answered before but I have just found this thread on what to me is a new software and have not yet read all the posts Previously been using Volumio but would love to try this.

I have currently an RPI with I2s into a home built DDAC (from Diyaudi dot com forum). I have Ethernet into the RPI and an external USB drive as the music source. Is anyone using such a set up with Moode?

Thanks.

[Dunluce978]

Well, I'm answering myself as I have made some progress

I have Moode installed and working on the RPI. Have yet to hear any music as I'm trying to find the correct I2S driver for the DDDAC. Moode can read my NAS but not the USB drive plugged into the RPI, don't know why it can't read it as it did work using Volumio.

[struth]

What is2 did you use with volumio? Or didnt you. Try hiberry and the plus version, and iq and plus versions. Then audiophonics ones. They are the main ones as far as i know. Not heard of that dac sorry. Usb sticks can be funny ive found. Some need to be formatted correctly.

[TimCurtis]

Well, I'm answering myself as I have made some progress

I have Moode installed and working on the RPI. Have yet to hear any music as I'm trying to find the correct I2S driver for the DDDAC. Moode can read my NAS but not the USB drive plugged into the RPI, don't know why it can't read it as it did work using Volumio.

Hi,

To troubleshoot USB issue try the following:

A) Verify the USB drive has auto-mounted by its disk label

1) ssh pi@moode (pwd=raspberry)
2) ls -l /media
3) The USB drive should appear under /media as a folder whose name is same as the disk label assigned to the USB drive

B) Examine MPD log after running UPDATE MPD DB from the Sources screen

1) System config: clear system logs
2) Sources: UPDATE MPD DB
3) ssh pi@moode (pwd=raspberry)
4) cat /var/log/mpd/mpd.log
5) Examine the log for errors, particularly permission errors

As far as the DDDAC goes, usually one of the two Generic I2S drivers in the dropdown list will work. Generic-1 loads the hifiberry-dac driver and Generic-2 loads the rpi-dac driver.

What I2S driver does the manufacturer specify for the device?

-Tim

[Dunluce978]

Tim, Thanks for the reply. I'll get back in a few days after I find out how to use SSH

The DDDAC is a DIY project on Diyaudio.com that is huge and has a massive thread, but I have not found anything that specifies an I2s driver for the DAC. I did get it working on Volumio some time ago using AFAIK the hifi-berry driver. I will try all combinations after following your advice

[Dunluce978]

Have succesfully connected the NAS box to Moode and configured the I2s driver which for the DAC chip (1794A) and it sounds really superb, thanks to Tim for a very nice interface, including some great Radio Stations

The USB drive was actually a back up of some music from the NAS and is not recognised by Moode. I did access the log but could see no errors, just a nic elist fo the music being added to the Db. I'll reformat the drive and add some music and retry.

Just one question, how to add playlists? I canlt find a way to create a new one?

[Dunluce978]

Have succesfully connected the NAS box to Moode and configured the I2s driver which supports the DAC chip (1794A). It sounds really superb, thanks to Tim for a very nice interface, including some great Radio Stations

The USB drive was actually a back up of some music from the NAS and is not recognised by Moode. I did access the log but could see no errors, just a nice list of the music being added to the Db. I'll reformat the drive and add some music and retry.

Just one question, how to add playlists? I can't find a way to create a new one?

[TimCurtis]

Have succesfully connected the NAS box to Moode and configured the I2s driver which supports the DAC chip (1794A). It sounds really superb, thanks to Tim for a very nice interface, including some great Radio Stations

The USB drive was actually a back up of some music from the NAS and is not recognised by Moode. I did access the log but could see no errors, just a nice list of the music being added to the Db. I'll reformat the drive and add some music and retry.

Just one question, how to add playlists? I can't find a way to create a new one?

Hi, Glad to hear that :-)

Which I2S driver did you end up selecting?

Click the \/ icon in the upper left of Playback screen an a "Save playlist" input field will appear at the bottom. Saved playlists appear in the Browse panel.

Wrt USB drive please post the following and I'll take a look.

1) ls -l /media
2) snippet of mpd log showing tracks being successfully added

-Tim

[Dunluce978]

Thanks for the info Tim,

I used the Generic RPI as I saw in the Audio info screen that it supports the 1794 chip (see attached) Could be imagination but I'll swear that driver has produced more detail than I have heard before using other software players.

I'll plug the USB back in tomorrow if I can and see what the log shows. The Tracks successfully added where from the NAS and not the USB.Screen Shot 2016-10-13 at 23.44.00.jpg

I'm a happy camper with much music to audition through this set up