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

[Marco]

Lol... Steve, welcome to the Pi club!

Marco.

[struth]

Yes you will need to decide which program your going to run then download and image a micro sd card with it using win32 disc imager(think thats its name which can also be downloaded free...id go with moode 2.3 from moode.org. but you could use any. You will need to assemble the sum of your parts as well

[SteveW]

Lol... Steve, welcome to the Pi club!

Marco.

Hi Marco
It's Duncans fault !! I heard his when a picked up a small pair of Kefs (ahem) (in case you wondered where they went!!).
Its going to be an interesting journey- especially to compare it with the Linn streaming kit I am using at present

Hi Marc - Funny thing is that all my computers have died over the last 6 months (imac and a windows laptop) - so I am just using a work windoze laptop, which may cause me a problem as it doesn't usually allow downloads. Virus paranoia.
Anyway, my main concern is getting volumio or moode onto the sd card... so will proabaly end up borrwoing my son's macbook.

[Marco]

Hi Marco
It's Duncans fault !! I heard his when a picked up a small pair of Kefs (ahem) (in case you wondered where they went!!).
Its going to be an interesting journey- especially to compare it with the Linn streaming kit I am using at present

Hehehe... It's rather good, innit? And Dunc's got his RPI set-up nicely optimised now, so you'll be looking to get a slice of that action back home?

You must pop round again sometime here for a listen, as my system has changed enormously since you were last here

Marco.

[SteveW]

Yes you will need to decide which program your going to run then download and image a micro sd card with it using win32 disc imager(think thats its name which can also be downloaded free...id go with moode 2.3 from moode.org. but you could use any. You will need to assemble the sum of your parts as well

Thanks Grant.
Thought I was fairly computer literate until this malarky.
Peoples lips move, but I know not what they say.
I'll get there !!

Cheers Steve

[Rothchild]

Yeah, that could make like a little interesting.

Start with physically assembling it all then. If you're on a macbook there is probably an equivalent to win32 disk imager that Grant mentioned, otherwise you can do it using the terminal using a command called 'dd' - if you don't find the simple program solution (disk imager) let me know and I'll talk you through how to write a disk image to the sd card using dd.

[SteveW]

So.. do I need to format the sd card..?
I got one from PI hut pre loaded with Raspian.
Cheers

[struth]

if your gonna write another program to it then just do a quick format which will erase the old stuff. takes 5 secs. then its ready to write to

[SteveW]

Cheers Grant
So if I want to put the Moode image file on it, I need to format it to clean Raspian from the card ?

[struth]

yes, you only want one image per card(as far as I know) I have 4 cards with images in case of accidents. Ive not added the new moode 2.3 yet. I have a copy but will only use it when the one in it goes tits up.(can happen). there was not much difference for my usage between the 2. I have a spare outfit with an older pi board(not much older) and an IQ dac with moode 2,2, psu, dongle and pi hut hub. thats currently a back up. been meaning to use it upstairs but couldnt get the wifi to work. It, when set up sounds great too so your in for a treat I think...its a short steep learning curve, or was for me.