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

[r100]

yep, where it says "hardware" set it to "disable". Then connect the Pi+DAC to your preamp and set the volume controls on your computer and whatever audio program you are using (Spotify) to their maximum levels. This to avoid any software controls to influence the volume before it gets through the DAC. Volume would then be controlled only by your Croft pre.

But only if its not a hassle

[Marco]

Ok, I haven't tried that. I shall do so after lunch and report back

Marco.

[r100]

bon appétit !

[Darren]

Apologies to all if I'm tread crapping but does anyone know of a company or person who supplies a streaming set up like Marcos pre configured and ready to go?
I have no time or talent for building/configuring such things.
Thanks in advance.

[Marco]

bon appétit !

Et je vous en remercie

Malheureusement, aujourd'hui, ce n'est pas rien de spécial, seulement du poulet, dans une sauce au citron frais, avec du riz.

À bientôt, mon ami!

Marco.

[Marco]

Apologies to all if I'm tread crapping but does anyone know of a company or person who supplies a streaming set up like Marcos pre configured and ready to go?
I have no time or talent for building/configuring such things.
Thanks in advance.

Sounds like a business opportunity for someone...

Marco.

[Darren]

Sounds like a business opportunity for someone...

Marco.

My own thought.
Wouldn't it be wonderful for busy audiophiles to have someone who could keep one up to date with a twice yearly upgrade/ software update at reasonable cost in this fast paced area.

[montesquieu]

Doesn't have to be either/or. Raspberry Pi is so cheap that you can get a system together which integrates with your current network (if you have such a thing already set up for other computer related purposes) and sounds great for the price of a crap CD player. I would see it as broadening one's options for experiencing music. There's plenty of bands/musicians/composers out there making their own music and only releasing their stuff via digital download, there are lots of hobbiests making recordings at recitals or making field recordings and putting them on the web for download, there are lots of freebees for experiencing high-rez audio and of course there are many high-rez audio stores which don't provide physical formats - having a FBA player that's easy and cheap just gives you another format player, like you might have a cassette player to hand for the odd thing you come across.

I think it's a nice, neat solution whereas normal PC/laptop permanently set up will just be a bit too over the top for most people and their homes and something like a Mac Mini too expensive.

Philosophically, does listening to the radio cheapen the listening experience? It's not much different other than you didn't even make those few clicks! Someone else even did that for you. One listens to the music and how you then associate with that music is kind of up to you. I find it makes no difference at all - if I love the music then whilst I'm listening to it, I still love it and value it. If it then makes you think of another piece you want to hear then you're not distracted in finding it as might be the case when searching for the physical copy. Just brings a different experience, not better not worse. (I'm only speaking from the point of view of playing stuff from my laptop... don't have any Pi yet).

You do identify my interest in steaming which around the hobbyist area - I have a small collection of Lieder78s but there are many many transciptions out there I'd like to make easier to enjoy.

On radio though I'm not so sure ....the only radio I listen to is R4 (TWATO, PM, The Archers, the Now Show) and R3 (mainly the Early Music Show and occasional broadcast concerts that catch my eye). I found when I had the Touch with Spotify that I occasionally listened to some of the classical music and jazz stations around the world but disliked the wallpaper nature of using music that way. I think I found precisely one exciting new piece of music in that time (a CD by Fishrmans Friend).

Background music generally drives me nuts and (other than when I have my hair cut, where it's unavoidable) I leave or don't enter places that have it (I refuse to use the Co-Op for example because of the piped crap they play in the aisles). The curse of being a musician I guess - you just HAVE to pay attention, your mind is drawn to analyse what you hear, even if it's some far arsed bimbo widdling around her maximum range of four notes, to a backing track programmed by a brainless idiot. People just don't get the psychic damage done by exposure to random shit.

[Gazjam]

Sounds like a business opportunity for someone...

Marco.

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...675#post632675

[struth]

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...675#post632675

databoy strikes again