Hammerhead wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, fellas. > > Just to be clear, I absolutely can hear a difference. I've got a fairly > nice system in the car (It's by Bang & Olufsen), my home system is > modestly high-end (Krell preamp, Bryston 4B-ST amp, Martin Logan > reQuests) and I have pretty good ears, so there most definitely is a > difference in the translation. While I don't expect the staging and > dynamic range that I'd get at home, there's a 'puffiness' to the tracks > that's annoying in .MP3 that aren't present in FLAC. > > That said, I was hoping for something like this: > > PCP > - Mount USB media > - Set up a Samba file share > - Synch files to drive every night at 3AM > - Configure Pi for HDMI output (it is bidirectional, after all...) > - Connect HDMI to car's USB media port via an adapter cable > - *Might 'USB OTG' be any help here? > > LMS > - Set folder to rescan at 4AM > - Use 'C3PO' to transcode on-the-fly from MP3 to FLAC > - Car 'sees' file system, displays albums on the nav screen > - LMS 'sees' request, ques album/track/artist... whatever... and as it > streams back to the car, converts .FLAC to... DSD, is it? > > Anyway, your insight here would be greatly appreciated. I can't believe > I'm the only one with such a use case, and if I can get this to work, > it'd be a huge help to me and others who have 'legacy' audio equipment > in the car that, for whatever reason, just doesn't work with FLAC. > > Thanks!
Leaving aside the mechanics of how this might work have you considered how you are going to power the Pi in car at 3:00 am ? You really don't want it always on unless you wish to drain the car battery. PI3 PCP/LMS STORAGE QNAP TS419P (NFS) *Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - Pi2+DAC ->ToppingTP21 ->AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - SB Touch ->Sherwood AVR ->Mordaunt Short M10s Everything controlled by iPeng ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108853 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
