jdunham wrote: > These boxes seem to offer a lot of processing power and functionality > for the money compared to using a Raspberry PI as a player, and wondered > if anyone has tried one? There seem to be thousands of the on eBay! In > the UK varying from £18 - £25 complete (i.e. case, power supply etc.) > and include Wifi, Ethernet, memory, HDMI and vaious other I/O > connections. > > I'm interested to see if one can connect to a decent USB DAC or via > S/PDIF? > Anyone used one with a Unix based player rather than Android (4 or 5 and > KODI is bundled mostly)? > > I've got various Squeezebox players, but want another headless player > for a good sounding desktop system. > > Cheers, > > Jonathan
You can run "SB Player" (and others) on an Android. As to USB DAC output I am not sure. The original wired Amazon Fire TV's had S/SPDIF and that works OK. *Vortexbox LMS 7.9 music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* iThingys/iPeng/Tablets *Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 - > Celestion Ditton F20s - Zone 2 -> Sony TA FE 320 -> Sennheiser RS 130 & B&W P7 *Office* - RPi -> Sony TA FE320 -> Celestion F10s / SB3 -> Onkyo CRN 755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - SB Touch -> Topping TP21 -> AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - Amazon Fire TV (SB Player) -> Topping TP20 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106450
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