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Post by MartinT on May 21, 2018 18:48:33 GMT
Good multiple of 44.1, that. Worth trying 88.2 as well, it depends on your link and the DAC.
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Post by Slinger on May 23, 2018 10:25:06 GMT
My eBay "bargain" mains cable arrived this morning. There's a nondescript but solid 13A rubber plug on one end, a Wattgate 320i on the other and a metre-and-a-half of Monster "High Current" cable in between. All in all, it's probably worth about what I paid for it.
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Post by MikeMusic on May 23, 2018 13:50:58 GMT
Not the normal mark up then  |
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Post by Slinger on May 23, 2018 17:30:37 GMT
Not the normal mark up then When I say "worth what I paid for it" I mean second-hand-parts-wise. I'm sure there'd be a significant mark up if were possible to buy it new, from a professional vendor. The Wattgate alone is priced at more than I paid for the lead if bought new. |
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Post by MikeMusic on May 23, 2018 17:40:20 GMT
Aha !
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Post by Slinger on May 23, 2018 17:48:59 GMT
I'm enjoying Volumio. There are some things I miss from Rune, such as the ability to select alphabetically from the long list by clicking on a letter on the far right of the UI instead of having to mouse-wheel or use the PG UP and PG DN buttons. It's a small thing, but something I'd got used to and found extremely helpful as my Classical albums are one big directory and it was great to be able to click "P" for Palestrina instead of navigating all the way down to "P" manually. All of my Non-Classical is subdivided into alphabetical folders, so that's not such an issue. The Radio Paradise FLAC stream is a definite plus, as is the YouTube plugin, although I've not done much more than making sure that works at the moment. On the whole, I think I'm glad I swapped over from Rune, but...you always remember your first.  I wasn't awfully keen on the rather basic Volumio "now playing" interface, I found the background images too "busy" and the plain colours too...well...plain, so I've done this...  |
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Post by MartinT on May 23, 2018 18:37:20 GMT
You tinkerer, you!
Have you tried go-faster stripes?
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Post by ChrisB on May 23, 2018 21:59:23 GMT
Flash git!
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Post by MartinT on May 24, 2018 6:41:45 GMT
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Post by Slinger on May 24, 2018 12:30:31 GMT
Yes, I've signed up to the forum and intend to take a good look around very shortly...especially at that bit.  |
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Post by jandl100 on May 31, 2018 11:08:11 GMT
Mine arrived today. Have just now plugged it into my SMSL M8. Whoosh! Good stuff. Have you got yours yet, Paul? |
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Post by Slinger on May 31, 2018 11:16:23 GMT
Mine turned up a couple of hours ago. I've just plugged it in and am trying to stop looking at the big red 9.07 that's staring at me. It did come with a mains lead b.t.w., I was wrong. Still, it's such a skinny little thing I'm glad I bought a better one. I'm two tracks into a Marillion album and am happy so far. There is a definite, positive, difference, especially to the bottom end.
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Post by jandl100 on May 31, 2018 12:03:14 GMT
Nope, you are wrong, it's 9.10
Actually, it potters about a bit.
I was planning to put some black tape over it.
It's the soundstaging clarity and focus that was most obvious with Mahler 9th. And a lot more 3D goodness.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 9, 2018 13:31:36 GMT
Mike? Are you visiting anywhere near Sevenoaks? Have your anti-tech vibes caused this? Volumio, which had been happily ethernetting away at 192.169.1.211 has, overnight, reappeared at 192.168.1.216 (and wireless port 192.168.1.217) and completely stopped working. The only recent change to the network is the addition of my Amazon Fire TV box to the ethernet port next door to the Pi on the Smart Hub, but I'm at a loss to connect the two things, especially as the Fire has been on for a few days and I was using Volumio last night. Even though I no longer work with them I am managing to maintain my love/hate relationship with computers. I am currently reinstalling Volumio from scratch. [EDIT] Yes, by the way, I'd tried powering down/powering up, reseating the microSD card, replugging the ethernet, restarting the router etc. et al. I've done the reinstall, put the card back in the Pi, and lo and behold it's straight back on 192.168.1.211 and happily scanning my music. I have no clue what happened. I also hate myself for doing a reinstall. It's the very lazy man's way of solving a problem, and not the way I was taught. I used to rail at the guy who eventually took over my job at one place I worked (I got made redundant) as his solution to virtually any computer-related problem was "You need to reinstall Windows!" I'm going to shut up now before this turns into a rant.  |
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Post by seanm on Jun 9, 2018 15:01:43 GMT
Hi,
If it is just that the IP address of the Pi and other devices has changed there are 2-3 solutions
1. Give the PI a hard fixed IP address of your choice.... For example, I typically let the router assign IP addresses in a pool of say .100 to .200 and manually assign "servers" hard coded addresses starting at .254 for the router and work down
2. Still use DHCP, but tell the router to always issue the same IP address via the MAC HW address -> IP look up table. All network interface devices have a unique hardware MAC address which is 6 bytes and looks like "00-14-22-01-23-45"
Many routers allow you to reserve an IP address from the DHCP pool so that a specific piece of HW always gets the same IP address via DHCP each time
3. I *think* that you can access volumio by name something like "http://volumio" here the router is doing the DNS lookup for you. HOWEVER, I have rarely got this to work
I use 2. It has the advantage that it always gives the same IP address for the PI hardware board regardless of the state of any installed distribution(s)... ideal for tinkering. This is also the basis for making Wifi more secure, you only allow known hardware to access your wifi by using MAC address filtering.
Cheers
Sean
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Post by Slinger on Jun 9, 2018 15:20:29 GMT
Hi Sean,
I couldn't access the Pi through the "new" i.p. address either, and once I'd deleted that address from the hub settings the Pi failed to reacquire it, or any other i.p. address. I didn't try any other solutions except to reinstall Volumio, and I've no idea why a corrupted Volumio distro would bugger about with the port allocations like that. I'll take your #2 onboard though, when I've finished making my changes the Volumio code to improve it, again and after my music is rescanned, again.
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Post by seanm on Jun 9, 2018 15:24:35 GMT
Sligner,
Sorry, I had not fully understood your problem. I have very occasionally seen issues like this... once or twice in 4 years or so of tinkering. If I can, I try and keep a backup of a working stable distribution image once configured and set up. In this way, while you have to reformat/rewrite the memory card it comes back 100% as it was including sources and even an out of date music library.
Cheers
Sean
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 9, 2018 15:42:59 GMT
Mike? Are you visiting anywhere near Sevenoaks? Have your anti-tech vibes caused this? Like quarks and the like Paul. You must have thought of me. That's enough |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 9, 2018 15:48:06 GMT
Interesting. I find that volumio.local does eventually work but takes its time to get the router's DNS to resolve it to the IP address. Did your router IP address not even work with PuTTY? You could have used Linux commands to release and then renew the auto IP. I've not had to build a new Volumio image for quite some time.
Like you, I pride myself on fixing the OS. Haven't had to rebuild a Windows machine in ages. A system clean and filecheck is usually enough, or at worst a system reset.
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Post by sondale on Jun 11, 2018 11:33:25 GMT
Hi Sean, I couldn't access the Pi through the "new" i.p. address either, and once I'd deleted that address from the hub settings the Pi failed to reacquire it, or any other i.p. address. I didn't try any other solutions except to reinstall Volumio, and I've no idea why a corrupted Volumio distro would bugger about with the port allocations like that. I'll take your #2 onboard though, when I've finished making my changes the Volumio code to improve it, again and after my music is rescanned, again. I used to have problems like this until I set up fixed IP addresses for nearly all my equipment ( includes tv, Blu-ray etc). IP addresses for normal home use would be 192.168.1.xxx where xxx is 0-999; some modem/routers will automatically assign IP addresses in the range 100-255 leaving 0-99 for static IP address assignment. If you set an RPi/Volumio to have 192.168.1.114 but you have not reserved this on your modem/router then if you ever switch it off then 114 is now free/available, now plug in a new piece of kit and 114 could be assigned to it. TROUBLE! So setting up Fixed IP addresses has essentially two parts, select a free IP address in the range say 10-99 and assign that to your RPi then set your RPi to have this static IP address. Easier said than done! the first part means having to logon to your modem/router, telling it the range of Fixed IP addresses and then linking the MAC address of your RPi to the Static IP you want to use - let us say 192.168.1.20. Exactly how you do this depends on the make of router / modem you are using, I have TPlink kit which I find has a reasonable gui for doing the above. having told your modem/router what the Static IP address is for your RPi the next thing to do is tell your RPi about this - having done this via Volumio before this should be easy! Both parts are needed to ensure unique Static IP addresses - just telling RPi/Volumio you want a Static IP does not make it so. Apologies if you already knew this. |
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