Raspberry Pi I2S to SPDIF Hat

Discussion in 'Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers' started by Michael Kelly, Apr 30, 2016.

  1. HumanFly

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    I was still bouncing around the formfactor issue you mentioned. Why not build things the way you like it and see the pi as something that is clipped onto your product. A lot of companies seem to be really stuck on the formfactor, adding level after level(I`ve seen 5 board hamburgers) just to stay within the limits of the pi. But the only reason to do so is making use of standardsized cases etc. In the end they all offer a unique case anyway. If you ever build some Frankenstein piDesignUSBridge2AES that has clean power, clean usb out and fast and clean ethernet, runs on a more universal voltage so I can endulge my LPSU-fetish AAAAAND does AES as good as the 502, where one just has to add a pi (or compute)model and maybe is compatible with tinkerboard and the other boards, I`ll be the first to buy :)
     
  2. Gazny

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    Personally I believe the to be released Compute Module 4 is a more exciting form-factor. Though none exist for purchase so my opinion is null.
     
  3. LetMeBeFrank

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    A new Pi2AES design with an attached CM4 with a slim black case would be very cool. Pi2Design might be able to sell pre-builts with your choice of software (3-4 choices) pre-installed. That would be very cool.
     
  4. Michael Kelly

    Michael Kelly MOT: Pi 2 Design

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    Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. We received the PI2AES boards from our assembly house in Taiwan. They are going through some post-assembly work and they'll be in my hands for testing tomorrow morning. Between testing packing shipping and all that stuff they will start going out Monday/Tuesday and continue probably 25 to 30 boards a day until the backlog is done. thanks again to everybody for their patience and now we will have a decent amount in stock for quicker delivery.

    We also have a handful of I2S to RJ45 adapters so anybody who's ordered one of those those will also go out over the next few days.

    The PS audio adapter is being respun, but was at a lower priority with everything else going on. I can bring that to the forefront now and hopefully have those ready in a couple of weeks. Unlike the RJ45 adapter they have active components and required they be put on our assembly machine. The RJ45 adapters we just soldered two connectors by hand!
     
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    How much RAM on the Raspberry Pi do i need ?
    Is it the more the better ?
     
  6. shabta

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    Get the minimum. I run a pi 3b+ and never have any problem even with 192/24 files.
     
  7. Taverius

    Taverius Smells like sausages

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    If you're going to run the server locally it can make a difference.

    Indexing and trawling the index can be memory intensive on a device as slow as a Pi.

    If you're going to run the server remotely - on your pc, on your nas, etc - the only reason to get anything than the base Pi 3 is if you'll be running it in WiFi, in which case get the base 4.
     
  8. shabta

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    If your music library is biggish, you are reading and writing alot to the sd card, so the ram isn't the limiting factor. Especially if you are going to run LMS... I found LMS wasn't really workable on a pi, since I have multi TBs of music. I love LMS since I run systems in three different rooms, but I ended up getting a cheap chinese mini-pc, that works great. But yeah for wifi, go 4.
     
  9. zerodeefex

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    This reminds me, I strongly recommend people get high write endurance microSD cards.
     
  10. Michael Kelly

    Michael Kelly MOT: Pi 2 Design

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    If your music is on an external USB drive or a NAS, then what generates the SD card traffic? It wouldn't seem to be related to the size of your library, but I am probably just displaying my ignorance of the underlying mechanisms!
     
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    The library/database/cache files are probably on the SD. I don’t know why they would need to change much unless you’re constantly adding new music, but I think that’s what they’re getting at.
     
  12. lehmanhill

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    This seems to vary depending on which software you use. Using Picoreplayer and LMS, you can choose where you store your cache (including library information). I used to keep it on the SD card, but when I got an SSD for music storage, the SSD was enough faster than the SD card to cause some timing issues. Once I changed the cache to the SSD, life was sweet.

    I second zerodeefex suggestion of high endurance SD cards. After all, most of the OS choices are very small in size and I have had several problems with consumer SD cards wearing out. I use a 512 Mb SLC SD card with Picoreplayer. Having 16 Gb of MLC SD memory is wasted space for most of the distros and a potential for problems.
     
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  13. shabta

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    I wish I knew about this way back when... Although LMS does a bunch of data integrity reads when you switch directories, and I would guess that is still slowish over the pi usb. I switched for a while to an odroid because you could use emmc instead of an sd card. But I repurposed the odroid ( it feeds an OG ifi nano, which feeds a dac, which feeds the living room system) and was able to get a Beelink Gemini t34 for 125 usd which I run headless. Still once in a while I need to rebuild the library and it flies on the Beelink, far faster than odroid. It's fanless, so music room friendly.
     
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    It sounds like the odroid is a good solution. I stayed with the Pi because other people were doing the programing for me. I have a friend who runs a Pi from the USB, initially with the OS on a USB stick, then he switched the whole OS to an SSD. At least that's the way I remember it. Of course, you still have to rely on the USB to the Pi for processing.
     
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    Stumbled on this today...



    Zeos the YouTube guy reviewed the pi2aes.

    He has a pretty big audience, hopefully this means more business for Mike!
     
  16. Michael Kelly

    Michael Kelly MOT: Pi 2 Design

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    it was a nice positive review, although it would seem he wears his camera on his head because I was getting a little bit dizzy while he was bobbing around!

    Also, he loved the lights, said it was like Christmas! Just saying...
     
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    I would not recommend watching :) his videos are a bit odd...

    But great press to a very young audience!

    I am a fan of the lights btw.
     
  18. Michael Kelly

    Michael Kelly MOT: Pi 2 Design

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    Production update - 11/28/2020

    Due to our normal shipping person being out with Covid, we had a temp person handling packing and shipping (me!). Unfortunately it seems a number of PI2AES and 502DAC units that were ordered without cases may have shipped without the proper hardware. If you get your order without the correct hardware please contact us ASAP and we will either send the correct parts or we can refund you (up to $20 USD) if you buy them locally.

    For the PI2AES or 502DAC ordered without the case you should have the following items in a separate clear zip lock bag:
    M2.5 5mmm Male-Female Standoff x 4
    M2.5 18mm Female to Female Standoff x 4
    M2.5 6mm Panhead Phillips Screw x 8

    Also, for those that did get proper hardware, there may be 8mm screws instead of 6mm. Again, let us know and we'll either ship them or refund for local purchase.
    [edit] Amazon has this: https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Line-9130834-Phillips-M2-5-0-45-Stainless/dp/B07D5VDFTL

    We are sorry about this and appreciate your understanding.
     
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  19. gixxerwimp

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    This is why I went with piCorePlayer. Volumio would keep getting corrupted and I'd have to continually reflash the image (maybe crappy SD cards?). I don't remember setting anything specifically, but pCP doesn't perform and writes to the SD card at all and the image stays stable forever.
     
  20. shabta

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    PCP does writes if you are using it as the LMS server. If you are just using PCP as a player, then it doesn't do many writes, it still writes it's state so that if you reboot it comes back to the song etc. I have found with LMS that, at least on bigger libraries, you need once in a rare while rebuild the library. But on my pi running exclusively as a player ( with picoreplayer) i almost never have to reboot and I have never had to reflash a card (except for updates).
     

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