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

[Kit1cat]

For all you those users of Volumio / Moode / Rune MPD based players out there have any of you tried the MPaD app for IOS to control the RPi?

It seems a far better interface to MPD than the inbuilt web interfaces that they come with...just wondering if anybody has experience of it?

Just purchased MPad for my ipad, good value for money at £2.29, not as polished as ipeng, but a lot easier to use then the Volumio web interface, plus you have cover art.

[martinswimmer]

Just changed upsampling to 32 bit 384khz and this is the best digital sound I've ever listened to (i don't do digital If i can help it). the files are flac from normal cds. Without upsampling, the sound is just average. I'm surprised no one else has commented on this.

[cyclopse]

Just changed upsampling to 32 bit 384khz and this is the best digital sound I've ever listened to (i don't do digital If i can help it). the files are flac from normal cds. Without upsampling, the sound is just average. I'm surprised no one else has commented on this.

Tried this for the first time tonight. Much more detailed and you can clearly hear more deeply into the mix.

Now onto the software players;-

Tried Volumio first. It is buggy and I was getting drops in playback over the network which I was starting to suspect the network.

Moved onto Rune Audio second. This is the largest programme and it's slow to navigate. Plus I was getting drops in playback lasting 7 to 8 seconds. You also have to enable the DAC board in Linux, not for the faint heart.

Thirdly tried Moode available from tcmods.org. This is my favourite and the one I am staying with. There are frequent updates and the album art. It's fast, snappy and no network drops. BBC radio streams coming soon. So I rate them;-

1 Moode
2 Volumio
3 Rune Audio.

Regards

Stephen

[NRG]

Yes, resampling seems to work well. Moode is also my fav out of the MPD based players...

[killie99]

So ... got all the bits today, installed Volumio but have a couple of problems. I can connect through a browser ONLY if I use the IP address, connecting to volumio.local doesn't work?
Bigger problem though is I can't figure out how to add my music library. It's held on a HP microserver running WHS V1. I've set the folder as a share (and I can connect to it from my windows box), I've set the Volumio mount as SMB/CIFS, IP address of my server, remote directory as music/flac but I get a mount error 22. help!

[cyclopse]

Yes, resampling seems to work well. Moode is also my fav out of the MPD based players...

Yes starting to make progress now. Felt like giving up at one stage though. Glad I pereservered.

[Ashmore]

Krisbee - re picoreplayer - thanks for the info. I do have the latest pi so I'll see if I can find an up sample command in there somewhere...

[guyhayton]

I've set the Volumio mount as SMB/CIFS, IP address of my server, remote directory as music/flac but I get a mount error 22. help!

In an earlier post I recounted my (personal) solution to getting the mount error 22. I discovered I needed to put an extra slash at the end of the remote directory. So in your case it would be music/flac/ Of course, your mileage might vary, but it worked for me.

[NRG]

It would be great for usability if the writers of Moode, Volumio etc actually provided a way of upgrading their players without having to flipping' well down load the whole sodding image and flashing it again! Oh and set it all back up!

[killie99]

In an earlier post I recounted my (personal) solution to getting the mount error 22. I discovered I needed to put an extra slash at the end of the remote directory. So in your case it would be music/flac/ Of course, your mileage might vary, but it worked for me.

No joy with the extra slash. I'll have another look at it tonight. I think WHS V1 uses NTFS file format, is that the same as SMB/CIFS?