cctaylor
pfm Member
Two months into my Raspberry pi streamer experience. The results have exceeded my expectations. Admittedly there have been a couple of hiccups on the road. Assembling the pi 4 and Hifiberry DAC2 HAT is easy.
Getting PiCorePlayer up and running wasn't too difficult using the how to guide on the PiCorePlayer this enabled me stream from LMS running on my PC. This was not ideal as the PC is in the listening room and it isn't the quietest.
Adding LMS on the pi was the next stage, this was a bit more complicated and I made a couple of errors but I got there in the end.
The final piece of the puzzle was to access my ripped files directly from a USB stick plugged into the pi. This requires a bit more computer knowledge as it required me find software and install it on the PC. At this stage I managed to transfer the LMS core to the USB stick which was not ideal.
Reinstalled from scratch, much easier this time with previous experience. Some of the LMS settings about the mounting of the USB stick remained on the stick. This time I went for LMS 8 rather than 7.9. This version integrates your local music library with the on-line libraries. So when I look at My Music I see tracks and albums I set as favourites from Qobuz in the list.
The BBC Sounds plug-in has been updated and installs without any need to download from a repository. The user experience is now much more like the BBC app.
While I haven't had time to do any A-B comparisons I'm very happy with the sound quality from the Hifiberry DAC2 HD.
Getting PiCorePlayer up and running wasn't too difficult using the how to guide on the PiCorePlayer this enabled me stream from LMS running on my PC. This was not ideal as the PC is in the listening room and it isn't the quietest.
Adding LMS on the pi was the next stage, this was a bit more complicated and I made a couple of errors but I got there in the end.
The final piece of the puzzle was to access my ripped files directly from a USB stick plugged into the pi. This requires a bit more computer knowledge as it required me find software and install it on the PC. At this stage I managed to transfer the LMS core to the USB stick which was not ideal.
Reinstalled from scratch, much easier this time with previous experience. Some of the LMS settings about the mounting of the USB stick remained on the stick. This time I went for LMS 8 rather than 7.9. This version integrates your local music library with the on-line libraries. So when I look at My Music I see tracks and albums I set as favourites from Qobuz in the list.
The BBC Sounds plug-in has been updated and installs without any need to download from a repository. The user experience is now much more like the BBC app.
While I haven't had time to do any A-B comparisons I'm very happy with the sound quality from the Hifiberry DAC2 HD.