OK, time to sort out the "office". This is the small bedroom I used to use for work which has become something of a dumping ground for stuff from other rooms over the last 6 months when various rels and g-kids visited. I want to use it for a workroom to do things like this.
I dug out the RPi 3 that I'd set up with my own brew of MPD etc. rather than the Rune distro, which I'm using now. This is using the ODAC USB DAC, rather than the Pi-DAC+, which is already installed in the front room. Zapped the SD card with the Rune image, loaded it up, started ok, all good. However, I then started to configure it how I wanted it, and curiously the new values just wouldn't stick. I struggled and struggled, trying all sorts of things, rewriting the SD card etc. etc. I should have known when I couldn't rename the card "Rune" rather than "NO NAME"... It turned out that it was screwed - a symptom of a bad SD card is you can't write it! I found another one, used that, and all was well... by midnight! That's three hours I won't get back.
I'm currently playing it through some old Altec PC speakers with a dodgy subwoofer, which sounds ok. I'll replace these with the Wharfedale NXTs when I get a bit more space and sort the room out better.
I've named the two Rune installations "frontroom" and "office" which seemed sensible. They can be accessed using "frontroom.local" and "office.local" from any browser, mobile or PC-based. I've also tried UPnP data from the minimserver installation on my Mac, and also AirPlay from an iPhone, and it all works great. This could actually work!
I dug out the RPi 3 that I'd set up with my own brew of MPD etc. rather than the Rune distro, which I'm using now. This is using the ODAC USB DAC, rather than the Pi-DAC+, which is already installed in the front room. Zapped the SD card with the Rune image, loaded it up, started ok, all good. However, I then started to configure it how I wanted it, and curiously the new values just wouldn't stick. I struggled and struggled, trying all sorts of things, rewriting the SD card etc. etc. I should have known when I couldn't rename the card "Rune" rather than "NO NAME"... It turned out that it was screwed - a symptom of a bad SD card is you can't write it! I found another one, used that, and all was well... by midnight! That's three hours I won't get back.
I'm currently playing it through some old Altec PC speakers with a dodgy subwoofer, which sounds ok. I'll replace these with the Wharfedale NXTs when I get a bit more space and sort the room out better.
I've named the two Rune installations "frontroom" and "office" which seemed sensible. They can be accessed using "frontroom.local" and "office.local" from any browser, mobile or PC-based. I've also tried UPnP data from the minimserver installation on my Mac, and also AirPlay from an iPhone, and it all works great. This could actually work!
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