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

[WAD62]

Sounds like a corrupted SD card, mate....

Why bother switching off at all, though? I leave mine powered up 24/7, and simply click on a saved Volumio tab on my desktop, whenever I want to play music on the RPi, and I'm away in seconds - and it's been like that since day 1

Lesson to be learned: leave it on all the time and there's less chance of things getting buggered up!

Marco.

That's the beauty of piCorePlayer, as it's a very trimmed down platform it runs completely from RAM, and therefore has no need to write back to the SD card...except when one wants to explicitly save new settings to the config file.

Which has a couple of benefits, firstly one can use any old sd card (I'm using a 4 yer old class 2 4GB one), and it can be toggled off and on by simply removing or replacing the power cable...which is nice

I've now got it to save the alsamixer settings too, so it is completely immune to power issues, or restarts...

[Stratmangler]

With a shutdown state power draw of just 0.26W there's no need to turn the Pi off.
http://raspi.tv/2014/how-much-less-p...he-old-model-b

[Marco]

Precisely!

Marco.

[WAD62]

With a shutdown state power draw of just 0.26W there's no need to turn the Pi off.
http://raspi.tv/2014/how-much-less-p...he-old-model-b

Hi Chris, have you been having a dabble with the Pi? The piCorePlayer distro works a treat with LMS

[Marco]

That's the beauty of piCorePlayer, as it's a very trimmed down platform it runs completely from RAM, and therefore has no need to write back to the SD card...except when one wants to explicitly save new settings to the config file.

Which has a couple of benefits, firstly one can use any old sd card (I'm using a 4 yer old class 2 4GB one), and it can be toggled off and on by simply removing or replacing the power cable...which is nice

I've now got it to save the alsamixer settings too, so it is completely immune to power issues, or restarts...

Hi Will,

That's cool. I've never tried piCorePlayer, quite simply because I've had ZERO problems with the RPi, using Volumio (and also Moode), since day 1, so have no need to experiment.

In my set-up, to play music on the RPi, all I have to do is switch my hi-fi system on, and as my Macbook Pro will already have been on since first waking up in the morning around 8-9am (and which boots up and is fully operational in seconds), all I have to do is click once on a saved tab on my desktop, which takes me to Volumio, and the last piece of music I had been listening to before going to bed that night, and click play (or choose something else), and I'm away!

It's a piece of piss!

Marco.

[guyb]

With a shutdown state power draw of just 0.26W there's no need to turn the Pi off.
http://raspi.tv/2014/how-much-less-p...he-old-model-b

Yeah, that what I was going to do - power down each night but leave it connected to the power - the only problem being that, as far as I know, the only way to start it back up again is to pull the power and reconnect it?

[Marco]

Hi Guy,

You don't need to power down anything!

For talking sake, say you're using Volumio and playing a particular track. Simply stop the track, by clicking on the stop button, close down volumio (and by that I simply mean closing the opened tab on your desktop, not actually shutting down anything in the operating system), switch off your laptop, or whatever other device you're using (and if you want your hi-fi system), and go to bed.

In the morning, switch your laptop and hi-fi system back on, and continue where you left off. No need to power down anything relating to the RPi. Leave it ALL on, ALWAYS. Simples!

My RPi, associated Paul Hynes linear PSU, and NAS box (containing all my music files) remain powered up 24/7.

Marco.

[Stratmangler]

Hi Chris, have you been having a dabble with the Pi? The piCorePlayer distro works a treat with LMS

I've not had a play yet, but I will do sometime.
And PiCorePlayer is likely to be the very first thing I'll play with. It would be great to have a Pi player that runs off my existing server setup.

[WAD62]

Hi Will,

That's cool. I've never tried piCorePlayer, quite simply because I've had ZERO problems with the RPi, using Volumio (and also Moode), since day 1, so have no need to experiment.

In my set-up, to play music on the RPi, all I have to do is switch my hi-fi system on, and as my Macbook Pro will already have been on since first waking up in the morning around 8-9am (and which boots up and is fully operational in seconds), all I have to do is click once on a saved tab on my desktop, which takes me to Volumio, and the last piece of music I had been listening to before going to bed that night, and click play (or choose something else), and I'm away!

It's a piece of piss!

Marco.

Hi Marco,

You'd need to be a SqueezeBox/LMS user to benefit from piCorePlayer, as it's an implementation of Triode's Squeezelite Java player (FYI Triode is a coding legend amongst the LMS community, having also written the EDO plugin for the touch too), hence it's size, or lack of

I've had the Pi synchronised with my SB Touch(EDO)/MDAC combo for 3 weeks now, across a scheduled daily server restart, serving up FLAC, streaming radio etc., without so much as a click never mind a stutter...it's bullet proof

[Marco]

Same here. It makes you wonder what all the fuss is about in reference to access/usage problems....

Noted on the piCorePlayer thing. That wouldn't interest me then, as I'm 110% delighted with the RPi, and so have no need to use any other form of music streamer

Marco.