Roscoe Primrose wrote:
Grover Gardner wrote:
Well, we didn't even get that far. Just getting it set up was too much for him.
What DAC and software player are you using? I don't have any problem connecting to any of the web guis.
Only DAC I have that does native DSD in a Manhattan II. Player is Audirvana on a Mac Mini.
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DietPi uses GMRenderer as the renderer, and it won't do DSD on the Allo. Gentooplayer works fine but it isn't free, though you can get a free trial. Moode Audio works okay, IIRC. I'll do some tests this evening. Volumio *used* to work fine but the new distro won't recognize the clean USB output. I'll dig around and see if I can find an older distro that works.
I couldn't get sound out of DietPi with GMRenderer, which is why I installed upmpdcli on top of MPD.
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So, yes, it's a bit frustrating. It's the ethernet drivers required for the Allo board that are the main problem. A standard RPi distro won't work very well. The Gentooplayer developer works very hard to accomodate the Allo and has a specific build for it.
I'll play around a bit more tonight.
DietPi has a specific build for Allo as well. It has Ethernet driver 2.0.0, which is supposed to work fine according to the Allo docs.
Roscoe
So as of now, using Audirvana and my Doge 7 DAC, which is DoP, I can get dsd64 iso's playing smoothly with Volumio's latest build (i had another Pi in the bedroom running Volumio and got the two mixed up) and Gentooplayer. Moode is acting funny and there are pauses and restarts in the playback, don't know why. I'll google the issue if I can.
I probably have some dsd128 around somewhere, or can download something and test that.
ETA: Okay, I lied. For Volumio I had to go to their website and get a previous 2020 build:
http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/