Viragored wrote: > Hi all. I've just installed piCoreplayer on a Raspberry Pi 3, pretty > much aiming just to prove the concept for when the day comes that my > slowly dying Squeezebox Duet finally dies and has to be replaced. > Frankly, I'm astonished that the team who run this project have produced > such an outstandingly good piece of work. The GUI is very well put > together, the software works like it should, and I've now got a complete > Squeezebox alternative with LMS running on my network. I dug out an old > Soundblaster USB DAC which is hooked into the hifi, all my music is on > an external HD (>1.2TB), SMB share available for updating and backing > up, and all so comparatively easy to do! > Huge thanks and congratulations to all involved! > > Not everything was totally straightforward, however, and I have kept a > note of the various steps where the user guide might benefit from a > little "Tweak". How would I let the team know about that? And yes, I'm > quite prepared to do whatever is needed to improve the wiki if that > would help. > > The concept is now proved, and I'll soon be shopping for a DAC to > replace my Duet receiver. Is there a thread somewhere that I should be > using to pick up wisdom on what's available on the market? I've got some > minimum requirements - ethernet or USB in, high quality analog out, > digital out, and a second analog out would be a bonus. > > Last words: Great job, team. And I'll be off to PayPal very shortly!!
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