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Raspberry Pi as headless streamer

PegLeg said:
Nice to have +ve feedback.

Out of interest, are you using a powered USB hub? What DAC are using? What is the client that is crashing?
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I have a powered USB hub with a 1tb portable USB hard drive - so just one power supply for the lot. At the moment I am using the wired network connection, but will plug in the wifi usb later to see how that goes.

The DAC is an iBasso D10 combined headphone amp and dac.

The client is Gnome MPC - it seems to be setting down. I suspect it had too many metadata tools turned on :) - all those lyrics and pictures I guess. MPDroid on my phone seems ok though. Any recommendations on clients? I have tried NCMPCPP but with my previous problems I gave up...

At the moment the pi seems to be coping with serving flac via Samba, MiniDLNA and MPD at the same time....
 
finphil said:
The client is Gnome MPC - it seems to be setting down. I suspect it had too many metadata tools turned on :) - all those lyrics and pictures I guess. MPDroid on my phone seems ok though. Any recommendations on clients? I have tried NCMPCPP but with my previous problems I gave up...

At the moment the pi seems to be coping with serving flac via Samba, MiniDLNA and MPD at the same time....
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MPDroid is the natural choice for andriod phone/tablet. What were you running gnome MPC on? If you need a MPD client with a graphical interface try Sonata, otherwise ncmpcpp in a terminal is v.good.

http://sonata.berlios.de/
http://ncmpcpp.rybczak.net/

You can configure the ncmpcpp layout, e.g:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1167179
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Ncmpcpp-395655517

It would be nice to have a really good web client, the firefox add on minion works quite well.

Glad to hear you're getting full value out your Rpi.
 
Is there a linux desktop client which takes a local snapshot of the MPD database like the Android & iOS remotes do?

I tried GMPC but its unusable as I have 50,000 tracks and it's constantly trying to read the database over the network. Scrolling through artists takes ages an no fun whatsoever.
 
Thanks for the links. My laptop is running debian and XFCE. I tried sonata briefly before but I really want to try again with ncmpcpp. (I recently discovered the delights of midnight commander so am having fun with the terminal)

Its been fun and frustration with the pi - initially ok, hitting the wall a few times, then recently sorting it out as a NAS replacement. My original idea was to replace my main NAS, learn something about linux, whilst saving energy and space. It was working ok as a server but not as a player until you guys identified the block size issue. If only I could find a suitable box to carry it all around in...

I am tempted to put raspyfi on another SD card and try that as well, now that I have got it working.Its come a long way in a short time....but better wait a while!
 
thommy said:
Is there a linux desktop client which takes a local snapshot of the MPD database like the Android & iOS remotes do?

I tried GMPC but its unusable as I have 50,000 tracks and it's constantly trying to read the database over the network. Scrolling through artists takes ages an no fun whatsoever.
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I don't know of one - thats why I was looking at using a non-graphical tool like ncmpcpp, which is of course much faster
 
I tried that project (gmrender-resurrect) on my pi, worked quite well. But I have now found an even better piece of software: https://github.com/PeteManchester/MediaPlayer

Discovered it via the Linn forums (http://forums.linn.co.uk/bb/archive/index.php?thread-19097-6.html also a bit of discussion on the OpenHome forums, http://forum.openhome.org/showthread.php?tid=1177&pid=2121#pid2121)

This seems to work even better than gmrender as it implements the OpenHome Playlist as well, so it appears as a UPnP/DLNA renderer and also an OpenHome renderer with the so-called 'Linn extensions', just like a Linn DS. Receiver/Songcast is not working yet, but Radio is. Works great with Kinsky and also Asset Control as control points. Not tried it with BubbleUPnP yet.
 
Not sure whether it's been mentioned before on this thread, but spoon has announced that the Asset UPnP server for Raspberry Pi is in beta - see here. On the same thread he mentions that the corresponding renderer - Renaissance - is also being ported.
 
Oh yeah, I saw that too. Renaissance (at least the current version on Windows) is also a combined UPnP/DLNA+OpenHome renderer, so should work great with Asset Control and Kinsky.
 
IMGrant said:
I tried that project (gmrender-resurrect) on my pi, worked quite well. But I have now found an even better piece of software: https://github.com/PeteManchester/MediaPlayer

Discovered it via the Linn forums (http://forums.linn.co.uk/bb/archive/index.php?thread-19097-6.html also a bit of discussion on the OpenHome forums, http://forum.openhome.org/showthread.php?tid=1177&pid=2121#pid2121)

This seems to work even better than gmrender as it implements the OpenHome Playlist as well, so it appears as a UPnP/DLNA renderer and also an OpenHome renderer with the so-called 'Linn extensions', just like a Linn DS. Receiver/Songcast is not working yet, but Radio is. Works great with Kinsky and also Asset Control as control points. Not tried it with BubbleUPnP yet.
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Thanks for this - will give it a go. Though this is a Linn-free establishment....
 
AndyU said:
Not sure whether it's been mentioned before on this thread, but spoon has announced that the Asset UPnP server for Raspberry Pi is in beta - see here. On the same thread he mentions that the corresponding renderer - Renaissance - is also being ported.
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Thanks will check out the link.

All else being equal I would prefer to use as open source a solution as I can, and I am very happy with minidlna as a server. Wonder if the renderer will push us towards Asset-UPnP...
 
There are better boards than the Raspberry Pi out there, in technical terms, but it has the advantage of price, and people developing for it. I used to have an IGEPv2 board, but struggled to use it effectively as it was not as popular and so less software (by which I mean, you end up compiling more stuff yourself, when other people do the hard work and make binaries available for the RPi, it's much easier).
 
Quick update -- I've loaded Rasbmc which ran stuff from my hard drive ok but wasn't gapless, no USB output, didn't run CDs from a sata DVD drive and wouldn't recognise the missus' iPad as a controller. Last night I uploaded the older April build and (nearly) all things are fixed. Sound through the Maplin DAC is very acceptable -- there's depth to the soundstage now and better levels of detail although the frequency extremes still suffer a little. I'm sticking with the Maplin DAC as running an e-Bay usb to spidf adaptor into the Assemblage wouldn't lock and the "noodle" DAC just buzzed.
Key question now is how to get the iPad to list tune so that I can pick stuff from the library to play -- any ideas? I suspect my library import may not have worked properly. Do I have to "scrape" something? If so what?
Steve
 
IMGrant said:
I tried that project (gmrender-resurrect) on my pi, worked quite well. But I have now found an even better piece of software: https://github.com/PeteManchester/MediaPlayer

Discovered it via the Linn forums (http://forums.linn.co.uk/bb/archive/index.php?thread-19097-6.html also a bit of discussion on the OpenHome forums, http://forum.openhome.org/showthread.php?tid=1177&pid=2121#pid2121)

This seems to work even better than gmrender as it implements the OpenHome Playlist as well, so it appears as a UPnP/DLNA renderer and also an OpenHome renderer with the so-called 'Linn extensions', just like a Linn DS. Receiver/Songcast is not working yet, but Radio is. Works great with Kinsky and also Asset Control as control points. Not tried it with BubbleUPnP yet.
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Are you running server and renderer on the same Pi device?
 
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