'Analog Dinosaur' succumbs to the joys of FBA : enter Raspberry Pi 2/IQ-Audio DAC+!!

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Originally Posted by The Black Adder

What will happen to CD though?... In a way it seems a shame for it to just vanish like Cassettes etc did.

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CD's ? Dinosaurs :lol:

I cannot say that I miss the Cassettes or for that matter the old computer floppy discs. But they had charm ;)

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Originally Posted by r100

CD's ? Dinosaurs :lol:

I cannot say that I miss the Cassettes or for that matter the old computer floppy discs. But they had charm ;)

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Hell, I still use my wind up Gramophones. Cd's will never die out just as vinyl wont...........I hope

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Originally Posted by r100

Marco, you hava a Mac ? Nice. Try the Terminal, come on :eyebrows:

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Yup, brand new Macbook Pro with 15" Retina screen... What do you mean by 'The Terminal'? :)

Marco.

A nice choice of musak anyways...Albert Rules man:D

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Originally Posted by Marco

Yup, brand new Macbook Pro with 15" Retina screen... What do you mean by 'The Terminal'? :)

Marco.

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I knew you would ask.. :)

it is the app you needed to connect to your Pi. Find the app in the apps > utilities folder or just search "terminal" with the search function. Start it up and type

ssh root@volumio.local

"volumio" is the password

et voilà, you are logged into your Pi and can start typing Unix / Linux commands as per one of my earlier posts to edit the config (configuration) file you need to to get Spotify to work properly

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ps igotta the same computa

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Originally Posted by Qwin

Marco - having got interested in FBA, but not yet done anything about it, I came accross this thread.

I have read large chunks of it but find very little detail about what is involved in the way data is handled that makes this system in anyway better than any other.

The number of acronyms means I have to keep going and finding out what is being talked about.
As I see it the Rassperry Pi is a small computer to which you have attached external drives by cat5 cable (your music library) how is this streaming?

I can not see any hard drive on the Pi (got me at it now) does it store its operating system on a flash drive and what is the operating system?

The on board DAC looks tiny, are you just taking the analogue output from this to your amp?
What type of data is the DAC working with and what is the interface (transfer method) USB bus?

The more I look at FBA the less I want to dip my toe in, seems there is so much happening I don't know which way to jump, eg DSD/1bit, kernel streaming etc.

I have an old desk top computer sat with iTunes and about 500 gig of lossles music on it. Its not wired into my system at the moment and rather than bother with it I was looking to build a state of the art FBA system. Like all things audio, it would seem there are many roads to choose from and no consensus on which is best.
The argument over which interface software or library software to use seems to me to be a sideline and has little to do with sound quality and is more about convenience and personal preference. The whole subject is complex and hard to keep pace with in my opinion and detracts from enjoying the music.

Still on the fence.:scratch:

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Hi Ken,

Those questions are best directed at Duncan :)

Marco.

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Originally Posted by r100

I knew you would ask.. :)

it is the app you needed to connect to your Pi. Find the app in the apps > utilities folder or just search "terminal" with the search function. Start it up and type

ssh root@volumio.local

"volumio" is the password

et voilà, you are logged into your Pi and can start typing Unix / Linux commands as per one of my earlier posts to edit the config (configuration) file you need to to get Spotify to work properly

:eek:

ps igotta the same computa

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Erm, thanks for the info (and it is very useful), but it's not something that I'd tackle, as I don't have a scooby-doo. However, Dunc will see it now, so he should be able to do what you say on my laptop :)

Marco.

no problem ! hope you can sort it ASAP
btw. this was the post with the instructions

Marco, it just occurred to me that you can also stream from the Spotify app on your Mac to the Pi by selecting the "volumio" airplay speaker in your sound settings (on the Mac) the shortcut is to alt-click the little loudspeaker icon on the top right of your screen and choose "volumio". Only condition to do this is that your Pi and your Mac are on the same (wi-fi, cabled) network.

Also make sure that you have set the sound quality in Spotify to "extreme".

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Oh, that's interesting! Just tried that, and it works.... Dunno if it'll sound as good that way, as the other method I've been trying to use, but at least I can hear Spotify through the system now until I sort it out properly.

Cheers, Roops - top man! :cool:

Marco.