rulof72 wrote: > I'm not really into/motivated enough to build something so I'm looking > for an off the shelf solution. > It's really easy to build and set up a Hifiberry.
I realize you've posted in the SoA thread about the Cubietruck. Personally, I'm not a Linux wizard. And I struggle with the Cubietruck. It's frustrating. But let me assure you that the Raspberry Pi is an entirely different beast. The Cubietruck sold in the thousands, whereas the Pi sold in the millions. The Pi has a huge community. For the Pi, solutions for non-experts exist which pretty much work out of the box. You don't need to solder. Assembly of a RPi 2 plus a Hifiberry takes a few minutes at the most. No tools required. And basically, you can order all required parts from one vendor. You spend roughly one hundred dollars/euros/GBPs for a fully-loaded, audiophile player. As for the software/OS side of things: Once again, let me assure you that even for a novice, setting up picoreplayer is easy as pie. picoreplayer is an awesome project. It's simple. It's rock-solid. As long as you use one of the well-supported I2S DACs such as the Hifiberry Digi+, there shouldn't be any problem at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ poing's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63617 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104164 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
