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

[Kit1cat]

After using Picoreplayer for the past week I have now returned to Volumio to try out it's Airplay feature, all I can say is that it's working great. Spotify free playing on my main system via Airplay using my ipad. Something I could never do using the Touch or via Volumio which needs a premium account, also works great with the Radio Paradise app. I can also play songs from my NAS via ipeng's built in playback feature, but only upto 24 bit/48 kHz sound quality, I need to switch Airplay off and revert to Volumio for higher res files.

[Krisbee]

Been through all this many times with different variations of caps, slashes/no slashes, admin/password and Guest access ... no luck. As I say it works fine with exactly the same settings on Rune Audio. I'm using a Digi+ board rather than a DAC board, but that's an easy menu option. Always falls over at the same point. Have spent literally hours trying different things here. Have concluded it must be a bug.

I did make a post on the Volumio site but I'm not alone in having this issue and it hasn't been addressed.

https://volumio.org/forum/mount-erro...elp-t3099.html

Have you tried adding sec=ntlm as an option when creating a NAS mount in Volumio?

If you can use SSH to login as the "root" user to your RPi when running Runeadio via your MAC's terminal app, this simple command will show what parameters Runeaudio has used to mount your NAS share:

mount

If you can cut & paste the output of the "mount" command here, it might give us a clue as to why the mount fails in Volumio.

[cyclopse]

This may or may not help but this how I setup Moode and the RPi/IQaudio DAC + combo. My music is on a NAS and the RPi is wired.

Go to System Menu
- set time zone
- set I2S Audio device to IQAudio DAC+
- set ALSA vol to 100%
- set Airplay on

Reboot

Go to MPD menu
Audio output should be: 'I2S Audio Device'
Disable Volume ( I use a passive Pre)
Resample choice 16 bit / 176.4 Khz
SOX: High Quality

Hit Apply, go to sources menu

Click New NAS
give it a name
Select SMB/CIFS
enter IP address (no leading or trailing slashes / or \ )
enter remote directory (this maybe case sensitive so watch what you put in here)
User Name for me is Guest with a capital G
no password, leave blank

Click Save

I think ALSA volume setting of 100 equals +6db. I have set mine at 93.
SOX: Very high quality
Resampling: maxed at 32/384
Kernal Latency: Orion

Thanks

Stephen

[montesquieu]

Have you tried adding sec=ntlm as an option when creating a NAS mount in Volumio?

If you can use SSH to login as the "root" user to your RPi when running Runeadio via your MAC's terminal app, this simple command will show what parameters Runeaudio has used to mount your NAS share:

mount

If you can cut & paste the output of the "mount" command here, it might give us a clue as to why the mount fails in Volumio.

You've lost me there I'm afraid ... I can only go in via the web UI, any command line stuff is beyond me unfortunately.

[Krisbee]

You've lost me there I'm afraid ... I can only go in via the web UI, any command line stuff is beyond me unfortunately.

Just try the mount option sec=ntlm

On Voumio web UI, enter NAS details but also go to "advanced options" and in the "Mount flags" put the following text: sec=ntlm

[dowser]

Bizarre... I've heard (and owned) many different Naim CDPs, and in my system, the RPi/IQ-Audio DAC (correctly set up and optimised) murders them all.

Marco.

Fair enough Marco - mine is an old CDI, and is one of the few items I have not modified yet (I have all the bits to mount a PFM Flea clock, just haven't felt the need). To my ears & preferences CD replay is far superior - soundstage is good via the RPi/DAC+, but clarity between separate notes/instruments across frequency range, and clarity of high frequencies is far better with the CDI, which creates a 3d soundstage missing via the RPi/DAC+.

I am also fighting against expectation bias - lack of imaging has always been a criticism of file based playback I have heard in the past - and admittedly I am in a minority.

I didn't get to compare HDMI audio to DAC+ audio last night (I also did an OSMC build and am using the RPi2 very successfully to run Kodi and replace my old hacked ATV1), but did discover how to configure the OSMC Linux kernel to utilise the DAC+ as an audio output device...which means I will likely keep it.

A note to NRG - if I set ALSAmixer main volume to 100% I got distortion on heavy bass notes, sounded like the DAC buffer being overloaded. As per above, 100% is actually +6db - I backed mine down to 86 or 87%.

Richard

[NRG]

A note to NRG - if I set ALSAmixer main volume to 100% I got distortion on heavy bass notes, sounded like the DAC buffer being overloaded. As per above, 100% is actually +6db - I backed mine down to 86 or 87%.

Richard

OK, those are just my settings, not sure what you mean by DAC buffer though... the DAC output may be too hot at 100% and it's overloading whatever you've got it plugged into...

[guyb]

Also, what do you mean by "awkward to shut down"? In Volumio, you simply go to Menu > Turn Off, and bob's yer aunty, the RPi shuts down in seconds!

Shutting down is the easy bit but the only way to power it back on is to unplug the micro USB and plug it back in.

I can only do this at the Pi end and was worried about damaged or breaking the Pi as the Micro USB port is tight and could be damage by the force of unplugging and plugging back in.

I saw a few tutorials for creating a reset switch which would be ideal but not sure my soldering skills are that good and their is no room for it in my Pi case.

How do you guys handle this?

Guy

[NRG]

I never switch it off! Or you could use one of these: http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/usb-cable-...FQXJtAodySQAOA Can't vouch for the quality...

[guyb]

I assume that it is safe to leave a Raspberry Pi 2 with Volumio powered on and running 24/7?