Audio in

[CallMeMike]

Hello everyone,

I want to stream audio from my cassette deck or record-player via my old 
stereo gear to active speakers. They are already connected to my homenet.

Is there a way to add an audio in option to my pi? I use moodeaudio 
with an hifiberry dac+ but that has (of course) no audio in.

Thx 

mf-2hd

The 'Line Out' ports on your cassette deck and the record-player are pumping out analogue signal while the Raspberry Pi works in the digital domain. 

I am not aware of any hardware (RPi HAT cards or USB devices) which can be used IN REAL TIME with the original RPi or a different RPi or computer to carry out the task to convert analogue to digital signal which in turn would be 'offered' to Moode Audio. The only straightforward (kind of) way is to convert firstly your tapes and records collection into digital domain using a  Capture card (Line In-to-USB), a computer and digital files convertion software. The end files will be stored on your network or on a external storage device and Moode Audio will need to be pointed towards the location of the newly converted music files.

It took me almost a year to convert around a thousand CDs into digital files but that was happening ten years ago with a much slower computer and the a poorer choice of convertion software. This experience has taught me to leave the tapes and the records alone... On the other hand if one has a great collection of tapes (cassette or reels) one should consider saving such a collection into the digital domain as the tapes are perishable in time.