Originally Posted by
Lanky
I'm trying Volumio on my desktop PC. It's in a different room from the hifi so it's not a sustainable method, but with a solid ethernet connection all the way through and mouse control (touch screens don't like my fingers) I hoped it should cut out some of the variables.
Except it doesn't. The only gain I've noticed is that the 3 dot menu no longer hides under the search bar for the first few entries like it does on portable devices. (I got round this on the Hudl by loading four files called 001-004 into my Music Library.)
Some albums that are listed complete with album art in Music Library view, and are playable from there, don't show album art in Album view and don't play from here. Some albums work perfectly in all menus and views, so I can see that Volumio would be excellent if they were all like that.
I could blame myself for getting something wrong in ripping that messed up the metadata enough in some of the rips to confuse some of Volumio's functions, though I believe I used the same settings in EAC for all the rips. But one of the albums that doesn't display or work correctly is a purchased FLAC download from the Presto Classical website which I haven't modified.
So far I've only tried playing music from a USB stick, so maybe I should put the same files on an external HDD and try that. My smart TV actually picks up the music folders on my desktop computer via the network, but I don't know how to get Volumio to do that, though I feel there should be a way.
I'm frustratingly close to getting Volumio to do what I want. Could there be a bug in the latest version (volumio-2.368-2018-02-18-pi.img)? Could my flashed image be corrupted? I have in mind that the only way to shut down is to pull the plug, because the shutdown function in Volumio appears not to work, as others have noted.
When I'm controlling the Pi from my tablet or phone I'm only a few feet away in line of sight, so surely the wifi should be good enough? I am using a wifi dongle with the Pi, though it's just an ASUS one that came with a wireless mouse and keyboard so is possibly not the best match. The Amazon link for Edimax shows eleven options, so I'm not sure which one you mean. The one I'm currently using looks just like the Edimax N150 Nano. Are these things plug and play, or is there some setting up needed?
Anyway, as the same problems in Volumio occur with a fully wired connection I'm inclined to think the wifi aspect is a red herring.