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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 9:09:50 GMT
I use Asset UpNP to stream music from my Mac, which is pretty stable. Don’t know whether that is similar to Bubble UpNP?
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Post by MartinT on Aug 26, 2018 10:43:45 GMT
It's always best to have a spare SD card ready to use.
Stan: I have had to throw away two SD cards that could not be rescued even with SD Formatter. One was not visible at all and the other had severely reduced capacity remaining, no matter what I did. These are known failure modes. It's best to buy top quality cards from a premium vendor like Kingston or Sandisk.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 26, 2018 11:31:25 GMT
I could do with a spare SD card to use with the Canon - at least Existing one is San Disk 8GB and 15 MB/s
Is it best to stick with that spec ?
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Post by MartinT on Aug 26, 2018 11:34:29 GMT
It's the Class number (speed) and whether you need SDHC that you need to match or exceed.
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Post by John on Aug 26, 2018 12:39:01 GMT
I think I spent about £100 on SD cards always Sandisk. I think I been without music 4 times now
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Post by Slinger on Aug 26, 2018 15:47:31 GMT
John, you haven't let Mike touch anything in your system, have you? Just a thought.
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Post by John on Aug 26, 2018 16:29:15 GMT
Well I have visited him a few times!
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 26, 2018 17:04:11 GMT
Like I said Contagious
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Post by John on Aug 27, 2018 12:50:33 GMT
Bought a new sd card and spotty connect set up really easy as part of the GUI No need to upgrade as now a easy fix. I will have a few spare cards
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Post by aaccandy on Aug 27, 2018 13:48:38 GMT
Just a brief addendum to previous comments about RPi 3 failures and iffy SD cards. My little RPi & Digi Plus stopped working and refused to play for ages. It transpired that the PSU supplied with the RPi was underpowered and this had corrupted the Volumio SD card. With a new PSU and Volumio SD card all is well and Spotify to my aged ears sounds good. Thanks to Mike for the idea and Martin for the script.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 27, 2018 14:06:52 GMT
Great that you found the cause as dodgy power supplies can manifest in so many different ways.
An obvious upgrade for you would be a 5V linear PSU as the RPi one is not the best for sound quality.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 27, 2018 14:32:35 GMT
Standard supply for the Pi is 5.1V @ 2.5A. Stuffing 15 volts up it is probably not a great idea, Martin. I think I've mentioned it before, but my Pi is extremely happy being fed from a USB output on one of these...
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Post by MartinT on Aug 27, 2018 14:44:21 GMT
Stuffing 15 volts up it is probably not a great idea, Martin. Oops, typed in haste and now corrected!
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Post by Clive on Aug 31, 2018 10:05:23 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Aug 31, 2018 11:14:15 GMT
It may well feature in my plans but I want to know whether they will create a taller 'darth vader' case for it. John has one on trial, thread here.
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Post by speedysteve on Sept 8, 2018 18:06:24 GMT
Martin was down at my place to feed his RPi / digione front end into my Najda S/pdif input / system. The main aim was to see how Spotify fed this route would compare to my usual Laptop served Flac files via USB-> WaveIO->I2S into Najda. We listened and listened and listened, compared and compared and compared! The differences are very small. You can here some differences but they were quickly forgotten as you listen on. Some remastered versions on Spotify (Come together -The Beatles) for instance had been remixed or remastered with the hifi audience in mind. More air around the drums was heard but they also killed the attack and edginess on the guitar riff.. The remastered Spotify version sounded too relaxed and polite for me. However, on like for like recordings the differences were so small. Spotify on Martin's front end set up sounds head and shoulders above the way it sounds on my laptop. It really does no seem to like Windows somehow! Martin explained the architecture he has. When I2S came up between RPi and digione and I explained my current USB-> WaveIO->I2S route in, the penny dropped for us both about connecting RPi I2S out to Najda's I2S in. No brainer. No digione needed to get S/Pdif out, no going through Najda's S/Pdif converter going in! We'd discussed it briefly before, (I'd forgotten) but it was not as obvious somehow before, as it was now. I had even asked Nick the Najda constructor about it. But he had no experience of RPi, so I forgot about it. Having heard what the RPi can do, seen Volumio, either web browser or via Spotify app, it crystallised that I have to try it.. Get a RPi, unwire my WaveIO and wire in the RPi. Give it a decent 5v, boot it up, play - hehe! Before I do that I will search the Diyaudio Najda thread to see if someone else has done it and get any tips there may be. There is new activity there I see so new stuff to read. Someone must have tried it.. Ideally I'd like to be able to use both Laptop USB->WaveIO->I2S in AND RPi->I2S in switchable somehow.. not sure that's possible, unless there's a WaveIO I2S raw in / out and it could be selected somehow? That's one for the Diyaudio community.. So a new chapter to my set up with some enthusiasm and direction
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Post by MartinT on Sept 8, 2018 18:13:29 GMT
Nice plan, Steve. Got home to find I'd left my router at yours Hope to pick it up sometime during the week. We didn't even need it! Thanks for the chance to listen to your system again. I think Spotify is confirmed to be up to local red book files again, via a completely different system.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 8, 2018 20:04:05 GMT
Have lashed up mobile tethering with a spare wi-fi repeater so that the Pi gets ethernet. It works! I have music until I get the router.
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Post by Stratmangler on Sept 9, 2018 11:32:38 GMT
Thanks for the chance to listen to your system again. I think Spotify is confirmed to be up to local red book files again, via a completely different system. I'm playing an MP3 (download with a vinyl album purchase), and Spotify doesn't reach the low bar set with it being MP3. The local MP3 files sound the better of the two, with greater overall presence, low frequency punch, and general detailing. Spotify can't match MP3, so how can it possibly match lossless?
The Spotify rendition is very good, but there's no cigar
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Post by MartinT on Sept 9, 2018 11:34:59 GMT
We played an mp3 yesterday and the Spotify version killed it.
It's all down to attention paid to accurate clocking and low noise.
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