{"id":3309,"date":"2017-04-27T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2017-04-27T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:04:25","slug":"runeaudio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"Runeaudio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a Volumio music player for a while: pretty good overall, but sometimes a bit prone to corrupt filesystems<\/a>. Checking the website, there was a new version, so I thought I’d try it. It was….interesting. Cleverly done, with squashfs<\/a> filesystem images and a data partition to save data, but using it gave me a few issues. First of all, the original Raspberry Pi model B I was using turned out to be too slow: the initial setup took 20 min to complete, and playing audio was glitchy as it couldn’t shift data down the USB fast enough. Changing to a Raspberry Pi2 fixed that, but then it dropped off the network. With no HDMI monitor nearby, this was impossible to troubleshoot, so I tried an alternative: I had a HP thin client<\/a> lying about, and Volumio has a x86 experimental version, so with a CF-IDE converter and a CF card to replace the tiny flash disk in the HP, off I went. Working out a few bugs in the BIOS that make booting the CF and not trying to boot the external USB drives that just contain music took a while, but it worked, quite well, with 2 problems- firstly, the web interface and the view through Cantata didn’t agree, and secondly…
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It dropped off the network. The interfaces were there, just unconfigured. Being as this was a PC, I could get a monitor on it to show that. I wasn’t in the mood for digging though, and started looking about for an alternative, considering maybe building something, and came across various options: the music player Linux distribution thing seems to have sufferred\/benefited from forks and options aplenty, just like the firewall ones did. There’s Volumio<\/a>, Archphile<\/a> (which now seems to be unmaintained), Audiophile Linux<\/a>, and others<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I settled on Runeaudio<\/a>, which, it seems<\/a> shares a lot with Volumio, both coming from Raspify<\/a>. I’ve got a lot of admiration for what had been done with Volumio 2, with some very, very clever features (like enabling a self-configuring wifi hotspot if no Ethernet is connected at first boot, for instance, which is impressive) and a beautiful web interface, but RuneAudio does what I need, and does it very well and very slickly: I did think it had failed the other day, with MPD not running, but it turned out a power failure had turned the DAC off, so it couldn’t start without an output device. Turning on the DAC fixed it staright away. <\/p>\n

Whether I stay with this depends on reliability going forward- watah this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a Volumio music player for a while: pretty good overall, but sometimes a bit prone to corrupt filesystems. Checking the website, there was a new version, so I thought I’d try it. It was….interesting. Cleverly done, with squashfs filesystem images and a data partition to save data, but using it gave me a … Continue reading Runeaudio<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-computers","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}