Cheapish streamer with USB out.

[StereoSimon]

Evening all,

 

I’m looking for a little advice from your collective wisdom.  I’m at the end of the process of moving from the Moon ACE to separates.  The last stop is the streamer.

 

I have a Chord 2qute going into a Linn Klimax Control and Twin Power.  The CD player and TV are taking to optical and coaxial inputs on the 2qute leaving only the USB.

 

I don’t stream that much just radio, podcasts and checking out an album before buying the CD or vinyl.  So it doesn’t need to be anything flash and I don’t want to use very many hifi buying brownie points.

 

So I’m looking for options.  Anyone any ideas?

 

Thanks very much.

[aussievintage]

moOde running on a raspberry pi

[zeffy]

+1 for moOde on the pi... can get any Pi off gumtree and do it relatively cheap. Suggest you look for 3b and above, gives you the flexibility to use wifi if you dont have ethernet cable near your set up.

[StereoSimon]

Thanks.
Raspberry Pi.  I don’t know anything about these.  I’ll do some research.  

[zeffy]

Try this youtube link - shows a step by step to set up moOde on a Raspberry Pi 4. You don't need anything more than the Pi, power adapter and a USB cable.

 

 

[avian]

Also if you are researching the Raspberry Pi's and think the thing looks like a horrible science project, or hacky DIY solution, there are a bunch of cases you can get from approx  $10 to $30 that will finish it off and make it easier to handle both physically and visually.  Heaps of options on ebay and such.

[StereoSimon]

Thanks again guys.  Looking into these I see why the recommendation.  One thing I can’t quite understand is how you control it.  Does it have a iOS/android app or do you need to use something else?

[aussievintage]

37 minutes ago, StereoSimon said:

Thanks again guys.  Looking into these I see why the recommendation.  One thing I can’t quite understand is how you control it.  Does it have a iOS/android app or do you need to use something else?

 

You simply use any computing device (laptop, phone, tablet) to view the web page (at the ip address of the reaspberry pi) that it generates and publishes.

 

You can also run any mpd control app (I use M.A.L.P.) to access the mpd process that is at the heart of the moOde system, but start out with the above web page - much more featured and friendly.

[Luc]

1 hour ago, aussievintage said:

but start out with the above web page

The YT link?

[aussievintage]

3 minutes ago, Luc said:

The YT link?

 

No I meant, start out by using the raspberry pi web page at the ip address of your pi,  to control it.

[Luc]

Just now, aussievintage said:

 

No I meant, start out by using the raspberry pi web page at the ip address of your pi,  to control it.

Ah I see. I didn't see you mention that.

[aussievintage]

Just now, Luc said:

Ah I see. I didn't see you mention that.

 

The paragraph above where I wrote "the above web page"  

[warweary]

Another option is to use a smartphone or tablet or pc.

 

One way would be 3.5 mm out of an iphone into dual rca cable.

audioquest cable linky

 

Other phones with the 3.5 mm will do that too, as would a pc motherboard or idevice.

 

Another cheap option is a bluetooth receiver to stream from a smartphone/device.  I've not used these so can't recommend a particular one but they're pretty cheap.

 

[Noypi888]

Hi,

 

For the moOde, does it have to be Raspberry Pi 4? or it will work with Raspberry Pi 3B+ ?

 

Thanks

[aussievintage]

25 minutes ago, Noypi888 said:

Hi,

 

For the moOde, does it have to be Raspberry Pi 4? or it will work with Raspberry Pi 3B+ ?

 

Thanks

 

Mine is currently running on a 3B+.  I also have a 4 that I have used.   Both work well.   

[Noypi888]

25 minutes ago, aussievintage said:

 

Mine is currently running on a 3B+.  I also have a 4 that I have used.   Both work well.   

Thank you Sir..

[a.dent]

If the OP hasn’t already made a purchase, these https://www.allo.com/sparky/boss2-player.html are a great cheap streamer.

You can buy preloaded with your choice of OS, including Moode or Diet Pi.

I bought one for my shed system and it works flawlessly and sounds great.

 

[aussievintage]

35 minutes ago, Noypi888 said:

Thank you Sir..

 

Most recommend a 4 only because they improved the USB implementation.  In practice I have never heard any problems with the older one.

[Herbs]

With that boss2 can it do USB audio out into a DAC?

[a.dent]

17 hours ago, Herbs said:

With that boss2 can it do USB audio out into a DAC?

It has a dac hat. Analog out from that.

If you just want usb out you only need the Raspberry Pi so save money.

[Guest dr_carl]

Another option i found is an nvidia shield,  usb output to 192 kHz. A few music streaming apps such as Spotify, Tidal and Deezer...no qobuz...approx $300.

[Noypi888]

On 6/23/2021 at 7:13 AM, aussievintage said:

 

Mine is currently running on a 3B+.  I also have a 4 that I have used.   Both work well.   

hi, may i ask what version of moode you used with the 3B+ ?

I downloaded the latest one and boot it but i got empty screen

 

cheers

[aussievintage]

1 hour ago, Noypi888 said:

hi, may i ask what version of moode you used with the 3B+ ?

I downloaded the latest one and boot it but i got empty screen

 

cheers

 

The latest.  I always update it when a new version comes along.  Not sure what screen you mean.  Mine runs headless.  The interface is via a web page.

 

The moode forum can be helpful with problems like this.

[Noypi888]

15 hours ago, aussievintage said:

 

The latest.  I always update it when a new version comes along.  Not sure what screen you mean.  Mine runs headless.  The interface is via a web page.

 

The moode forum can be helpful with problems like this.

Thank you ...

[Noypi888]

On 7/12/2021 at 4:32 PM, aussievintage said:

 

The latest.  I always update it when a new version comes along.  Not sure what screen you mean.  Mine runs headless.  The interface is via a web page.

 

The moode forum can be helpful with problems like this.

 

It is working now with 3B+ 

just need to use Alt-F2 to get the login prompt