![]() This works very well even on a first gen Pi. I have a server box running Logitech Media Server in a virtual machine that has all my files. I'm currently using PiCorePlayer on the Pi. They just don't do much beyond playing music. There are a bunch of dedicated distributions you can just write onto an SD card and run. This is mostly about using RPi as a dedicated player. Personally I think it's better than USB, but YMMV. I have a 'proper' media PC I built and compared to it the RPI sounds nicer, I suspect because it has less electrical component noise.Īnother advantage is that the RPI has a neat add on board (HifiBerry) that ads optical and Coax out - try to get a coax out of a mac min or even a PC. The RPI 2 is actually quite powerful quad core and if it's running linux it's quite efficient and sound doesn't take that much. Most of the new features I saw were about Photo sharing. If you look at the plans for the next version of Jriver (21) there's no new features about sound - because as they said to one user on their forums (before locking the tread) they think their sound 'is the best there is'. Many people have suggested they at least add TPDF dither as an option, for people who want it - but they know better than their paying customers. If you attenuate much (-40dB) than it doesn't sound as good as it could be - this is a real issue for people who connect a dac directly to a power amp, for example. ![]() There is a well publicised (despite repeated banning of users and post) issue wit Jriver's Dither implementation, it's not the 'proper' TPDF dither that's the industry standard in sound production etc.
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