cgallery wrote: > Can I make a Squeezebox compatible player with a Raspberry Pi and > SqueezePlug? Has anyone done this here, how well does it work for you? > Any pros or cons? AFAIK, Squeezeplug is primarily a server, with an option to include a player. You can make a standalone player like a Squeezebox with a Raspberry Pi + Squeezelite. I've done it and it works fine, with the following caveats:
1. The Raspberry Pi's onboard audio is of rather poor quality. You'd need to hook up an external DAC to get decent results. And that means using either HDMI (which I've not tried) or USB. The Pi's USB subsystem is known to be rather flaky. Whether any particular USB DAC works can be hit-and-miss. I used a cheap USB-to-SPDIF converter based on the TI PCM2704 chip (typically available on eBay for about $15) and it works, but with some suspicion that it's not quite perfect. 2. Synchronization with other Squeezeboxes is not as good as with the hardware players. I found it to be acceptable where the players weren't obviously in earshot of one another, but not with them having overlapping coverage. I've now abandoned the Pi as a Squeezebox. My advice would be to consider a Wandboard running CSOS rather than a Pi, which from all accounts seems to be a much more robust platform. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101179 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
