03-29-2019, 10:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2019, 10:36 AM by peredovitch.)
Hello,
First of all thanks Tim for the amazing work on MoodeAudio! Very satisfied user here!
I have a very small issue. One of my Moode setups is fairly crude - 1st-gen Raspberry Pi (the one with only 256mb of RAM), no DAC, just the Pi's regular audio output... Not in audiophile territory for sure, but it's in a peripheral room and it works for me - and it puts my first "historical" Pi to good use. I use zram to make the tiny RAM more usable, and a low-priority swapfile as a last-resort measure to avoid fatal OOMs...
Now with Moode 4.4, SQ was surprisingly good for such a shamelessly basic setup - MoodeAudio was doing an *amazing* job of making the best of that crappy output.
I'm testing MoodeAudio 5 RC0 and it's not really working anymore - SQ went down the drain, lots of creaking/cracking/clipping - not really listenable. A shame since the UI improvements are fantastic!
I switched back to 4.4 and I'm perfectly happy with it of course... I guess I might have to stick with it for this one setup - the hardware is probably a notch below what Moode 5 would need. Unless someone has ideas to optimize the Pi's analog output? Some arcane ALSA settings maybe?
I might also try a cheap USB DAC and see how it goes...
Anyway just wanted to report a setup where 4.4 works great and 5 doesn't - I don't expect it to be supported as it is really "archaic"
First of all thanks Tim for the amazing work on MoodeAudio! Very satisfied user here!
I have a very small issue. One of my Moode setups is fairly crude - 1st-gen Raspberry Pi (the one with only 256mb of RAM), no DAC, just the Pi's regular audio output... Not in audiophile territory for sure, but it's in a peripheral room and it works for me - and it puts my first "historical" Pi to good use. I use zram to make the tiny RAM more usable, and a low-priority swapfile as a last-resort measure to avoid fatal OOMs...
Now with Moode 4.4, SQ was surprisingly good for such a shamelessly basic setup - MoodeAudio was doing an *amazing* job of making the best of that crappy output.
I'm testing MoodeAudio 5 RC0 and it's not really working anymore - SQ went down the drain, lots of creaking/cracking/clipping - not really listenable. A shame since the UI improvements are fantastic!
I switched back to 4.4 and I'm perfectly happy with it of course... I guess I might have to stick with it for this one setup - the hardware is probably a notch below what Moode 5 would need. Unless someone has ideas to optimize the Pi's analog output? Some arcane ALSA settings maybe?
I might also try a cheap USB DAC and see how it goes...
Anyway just wanted to report a setup where 4.4 works great and 5 doesn't - I don't expect it to be supported as it is really "archaic"
