Hi ghulse, Welcome aboard!
ghulse wrote: > I recently built a Raspberry Pi2 with a HiFiBerry DAC+ and PiCorePlayer. > And it works great. Thanks to everyone involved in the PiCore project. Appreciated, a little feedback keeps us going. ;) > I started out with a CanaKit from Amazon which includes a Raspberry Pi2, > 8GB SD card pre-loaded with NOOBS, and USB power adapter. I learned the > hard way that the included WiFi dongle uses the Ralink 5370 chipset and > apparently is not compatible with PiCorePlayer. I bought an Edimax > EW-7811Un ($9) and it mostly works great. See below for the one issue I > am having. Most of my wifi dongles are using the Ralink 5370 chipset. They work as good as any other IMHO. I use them on my development piCorePlayers because I know they just work. > My next project is to build another PiCorePlayer, but using HiFIBerry's > Digi+ (digital) output. It turns out that the Marantz PM6005 amp has a > built-in Cirrus Logic CS4398 DAC and I think it would be interesting to > hear what it sounds like. I can always use a couple of Squeezebox > players around the house. This should work fine. I have never tried a I2S to SPDIF converter myself. > A couple of times yesterday, while streaming some albums from my > collection (Apple Lossless), I experienced dropouts. The music stopped > playing and when I went to the PiCorePlayer, the music was still > playing, just nothing coming out of the speakers. I was wondering what > might cause something like that. Also, is there any way to tell what the > signal strength is? I looked at both the Squeezebox page and the > PiCorePlayer page and can't see anywhere that shows signal strength. Unfortunately with wifi you are never in full control of your network. My micro wave oven interferes with my wifi network. Also I noticed some new neighbours recently with multiple wifi access points (AP) on the same channel that I am using and often their signal strength is greater than my wifi AP. On the WIFI Settings page there should be Available wifi networks. This should show you the AP near your piCorePlayer and the quality and strength of your signal. Please note, the quality and strength scale is different depending on the chipset. I just reread your issue, whenever I have a apparent gap or silent period in my music it usually turns out to be a problem with the source material, such as incomplete rips or weird tracks with a large silent period. I have rip that has a secret track hidden after 2 or 3 minutes of silence. What do you do to get music again, do a next track or restart Squeezelite? Regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
