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Now, for my next trick

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Also, I've followed a guy who goes by - if memory serves - 'NYC Paramedic' for years. He's posted in various places and did groundbreaking work on extreme low end music servers.

Here's one post from a few years back:

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=62364.0

Note the reference to Voyage Linux, which is Debian-based.

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I followed that guide when I first delved into music servers about 3 years ago. Its a very good tutorial for somebody with thats comfortable with Linux.
 
Wow. This is awesome. I want to load J. River on this thing and put it on my network. Can I do that? It would have to be Win XP. Can this little booger handle Win XP?
 
Y'know, the underlying thing here makes me optimistic.

We're used to the cpu bottleneck at the top end, which is part of why we have Xcore machines now.

But at the other end, down where the cheap seats are, cpu cycles are still getting cheaper. The idea of running, say, XMBC on arm hardware five years ago would have been...a stretch. Hell, I remember building a MythTV box around a VIA chipset three years ago and the thing was not optimal, even in SD.

So these little one board thingys that can plausibly run Ubuntu or Debian or whatever are cause for being happy - it means we can afford to *waste* cpu cycles on the things normal people need, like guis.

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JimmyNeutron said:
Wow. This is awesome. I want to load J. River on this thing and put it on my network. Can I do that? It would have to be Win XP. Can this little booger handle Win XP?
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Im not sure if you could run Win XP on it, as it doesnt support the ARM architecture. ARM is a different instruction set from x86-64, so the software has to be specifically written for it. The ARM name came from Advanced RISC Machines, or Reduced Instruction Set Computing. A modern chip is CISC, short for Complex Instruction Set Computing. A RISC CPU has to perform more than one instruction to do what a CISC CPU can do in one instruction in many instances. For the underlying OS itself, kernel is very slimmed down compared to what youd get on a standard desktop, including pretty much exactly what is needed for it to perform. ARM is completely different, in that it cant be compared to your standard Core and Phenom CPUs, because theyre two totally different things..

EDIT: On another note, Windows 8 has ARM support, but I think it may even be too much for the Raspberry Pi. You might be able to remove some of the preloaded stuff and burn your img to SD, but you wont know until you try.
 
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Would anybody happen to know where I can find a cheap ~$25 USB to SPDIF converter? I dont have a USB DAC, and would need one to run my Benchmark with the RPi. Something that uses a Burr Brown chip preferably, as I know thats whats compatible with it.
 
I went ahead and ordered this USB to coax adapter http://www.amazon.com/Ha-Info-COAX-...&qid=1342918910&sr=8-10&keywords=usb+to+spdif It has the BB receiver I was looking for. I know it doesnt do high resolution audio, but I dont have any tracks that would necessitate it anyway. One thing I was looking for was a good power supply, so I went ahead and ordered one for a HP Touchpad, as its on the compatible list of power supplies shown here: http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#Working_power_Adapters This should come together nicely. Aside from the $28 on the USB transport, I have a total of ~$75 into this including the shipping charges.
 
I believe Ive found the OS I will use. Darkbasic, which is essentially a very minimal install of Raspbian Wheezy. I like the fact that it has no GUI, as that will keep resources better allocated to playing music :). Along with that, Ive decided to run Squeezeslave, which is a command line music player program that lets Logitech Media Server see it as another Squeezebox. Now that the groundwork is all laid out, itll soon come time to execute :smoke:
 
Raspberries? Somebody posted a thread calling them Blackberry's.

Glad they aren't Blackberry's, that would mean they don't have a future. (Yeah, I own one).

This could take a lot of heat off my long in the tooth laptop.
 
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Raspberries? Somebody posted a thread calling them Blackberry's.

Glad they aren't Blackberry's, that would mean they don't have a future. (Yeah, I own one).

This could take a lot of heat off my long in the tooth laptop.
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It could work very well for you, as that D1 is USB. Im not sure how well your D1 would work though, as some DACs are hit or miss with the RPi at this time. I expect support will get better, as the Rpi is still in its infancy.
 
Just ordered the RPi and the enclosure that badassbob bought. I am suppossed to have the RPi by August 6th. I have a bunch of micro-USB wall warts so I hope one will work. I still need the SD card.

I wonder if this will work with my DacMagic via USB.

I am looking forward to this project.
 
Ultimately, Id like to turn this into AKs own open-source music player project. Once I get some things hammered out, Ill find somebody to host the .img from my SD card. That way, everybody is able to flash it and run the RPi without having to do a ton of legwork. In the future, Id like to make a fork of Raspbian (Debian for Rpi) geared specifically towards playing music. My main goal there will be compiling a bare-minimum kernel with exactly whats needed to run the RPi plus a few extras such as Squeezeslave, NFS, SMB, and possibly a few other perks. A turn-key DIY Squeezebox of sorts. Hey, lets just call it the Stompbox :yes:. I dont have a ton of cash on hand to try various USB DACs, so once this is done, Ill want to send it to those with USB DACs so we can build a database of what works and what doesnt ;).
 
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Ultimately, Id like to turn this into AKs own open-source music player project. Once I get some things hammered out, Ill find somebody to host the .img from my SD card. That way, everybody is able to flash it and run the RPi without having to do a ton of legwork. In the future, Id like to make a fork of Raspbian (Debian for Rpi) geared specifically towards playing music. My main goal there will be compiling a bare-minimum kernel with exactly whats needed to run the RPi plus a few extras such as Squeezeslave, NFS, SMB, and possibly a few other perks. A turn-key DIY Squeezebox of sorts. Hey, lets just call it the Stompbox :yes:. I dont have a ton of cash on hand to try various USB DACs, so once this is done, Ill want to send it to those with USB DACs so we can build a database of what works and what doesnt ;).
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Sounds great. I can't wait to get started.
 
BadassBob said:
Same here. Theres tons of neat things you can do with it. Im going to give the "faux-Squeezebox" a shot first, but it looks like itll keep my hands dirty for a little while atleast.
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Watching with interest. There was a presentation on this unit at our local PC club meeting last week. I just hope that by the time that production catches up with demand that the price stays relatively low. The bay has some opportunists that are raising the asking price for less lead time, they must have anticipated a run on this little sucker...:yes:
 
I just purchased two 4gb SDHC Class 10 cards. My blackberry charger is on the list that badassbob linked to so, I will save some money there. I am not the shopper that badassbob is though, so far I have spent $79.61.

I also have a monitor that I am not using but it only has DVI or RGB inputs so a HDMI to DVI or RGB cable may need to be ordered in the future.
 
ldatlof said:
I just purchased two 4gb SDHC Class 10 cards. My blackberry charger is on the list that badassbob linked to so, I will save some money there. I am not the shopper that badassbob is though, so far I have spent $79.61.

I also have a monitor that I am not using but it only has DVI or RGB inputs so a HDMI to DVI or RGB cable may need to be ordered in the future.
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I have an 8GB Class 10 sitting in my desk drawer, so thatll be my storage space. So far, Im up to $103.20, but thats also because I spent $28.79 for the USB->SPDIF transport. With just the core components (chassis, RPi, power adapter), Im at $74.41 including shipping. Im really looking forward to this, its going to be alot of fun compiling an OS for it.
 
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I ordered a HDMI to DVI cable from monoprice so I am up to $86.40. If I end up with a device that is a squeezebox and a computer, that's a hell of a deal.
 
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