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Shairport Crashing When Using USB DAC with Raspberry Pi

March 26, 2019 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

I’ve moved over from Squeezebox server to Roon as my multi-room music playback system. The new system works wonderfully, and I love it. However, there’s one thing that I’ve had a problem with, and that’s getting Apples AirPlay to work reliably with my Roon Raspberry Pi endpoints running Diet-Pi Linux. The Shairport-sync constantly crashed. After searching around the net, I found a solution to my problem.

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Filed Under: Raspberry Pi Tagged With: AirPlay, Apple, DAC, Raspberry Pi, Roon

HifiBerry DAC+ Click When Changing Song

April 6, 2018 by Jack Zimmermann 6 Comments

My current music setup is a Raspberry Pi 3 with a HifiBerry DAC+ audio card as my music player. It works perfectly, except for one annoying thing. The new HifiBerry DAC+ makes an audible click or poping sound when changing the sampling rate. I have a lot of recordings in higher resolution than CD-quality of 16-bit 44kHz, so it’s jarring when it happens. I like to play my music loud which exacerbates the problem. But there’s an easy solution, and at the same time, you can get better sound quality overall. Here’s how to fix the problem.

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Filed Under: Electronics, Raspberry Pi Tagged With: DAC, Electronics, Music, Raspberry Pi, Upsampling

Apple Music Streaming – It’s a No Go For Me

August 11, 2015 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

iTunes Application logo

Apple Music

So I gave Apple Music streaming a try. Being able to just search for music and add it to my playlists sounded like a good idea. After a while the recommendations becomes rather good as well, giving me some tips of other bands I might like. But here’s the problem I have with Apple Music. When you sync your music via iCloud, you can no longer sync music via iTunes! And to be able to download music locally from Apple Music to your phone, you must use the “in the iCloud” solution. Catch–22 anyone?

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Filed Under: Apple Tagged With: Apple, Apple Music, Audio, DAC, High Res, iPhone, Music, Streaming

Mods and upgrades on a Pioneer PD S-505 for better audio quality part 1

March 28, 2009 by Jack Zimmermann 5 Comments

Pioneer PD-S505

Part two of this series is now up. Read on how to install a better clock in your Pioneer PD S-505 CD player.

Mods your Pioneer PD S-505 CD Player for better sound quality

So I bought this Pioneer PD S-505 for $40 to test how good audio quality I’m able to squeeze out by modifying it. But It will not be just the standard subjective judgment of improvement but also measurements. Back in 2000, you had to pay about $400 for it. It uses the stable platter which means you have to put the CD in upside down. So let’s get going.

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Filed Under: Electronics, Hifi, Music Tagged With: Audio, DAC, Hifi, Modding

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