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On 17/12/2017 21:51, D.M. Procida wrote:
> A few weeks ago I described a music source I put together:
>
> * Raspberry Pi
> * Raspberry Pi 7" touch screen
> * Volumio software 
> * Allo Boss DAC 
> * music stored on a 64GB USB flash drive
>
> (played through a 30-year-old Cyrus 1 amplifier to Royd Coniston 2
> speakers).
>
> I've been using this for a few weeks, and listening to a variety of
> music on it.
>
> The sound quality is excellent, especially given the price of the
> Raspberry Pi hardware. I can recommend the Allo Boss DAC in particular.
>
> The Volumio software - well, it works. But the interface is very rough,
> in all kinds of ways.
>
> In just about every music transport interface since the dawn of the CD,
> hitting the "back" button in the middle of a track sends you back to its
> start; in Volumio, it sends you to the start of the previous track.
>
> Navigation through a music library is tiresome, and it's very difficult
> to do basic things, like play an album starting with a particular track.
>
> I'm going to try something else instead, but I don't think the other
> options are significantly better.
>
> The Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen in hopeless. When you wake it from
> sleep, it registers the touch that wakes it as a command, so inevitably
> you skip a track or worse. It's slow and unresponsive, and has no scroll
> momentum behaviour, so it's clumsy to use (that's mostly the Raspberry
> Pi's fault though). And the pixels aren't square, which is aesthetically
> displeasing.
>
> I mostly found myself controlling it via a web browser, which was not
> nearly as irritating as I expected. Still, I think I will find some way
> of setting up proper hardware controls on it, because jabbing at a phone
> or having to go to my MacBook is no way to control what's playing.
>

I don't mind using a smartphone to control things. App permitting, I use
a simple 'what's playing' interface - VLC works pretty well on Android
and iOS. But horses/courses etc.

I've asked for one for as a collective xmas present from the rellies -
expect a report back :-)


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Cheers, Rob

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