11-17-2022, 04:38 PM
I’ve now got my player up and running - a Pi 3B with an IQAudIO DAC+ hat and all music files on an externally powered USB drive. I made a couple of minor changes to config.txt to add support for the gpio_fan overlay and dropped the GPU mem to 16. I’ve turned off a bunch of stuff I don’t need in the MoOde config like turning off WiFi and Bluetooth, and the audio volume is set to hardware. I’m running the 64-bit version, for no particular reason, which I realize is a bit of a squeeze, but my audio collection is about 20K tracks, so I’m not dealing with huge databases.
As a test I’ve just put one title on the drive - I’d ripped it as a single FLAC with CUE but I’ve also tried it with the FLAC transcoded to individual files. The music I’m playing is one of the hi-res audio DVDs from the recent deluxe release of Ultravox’s _Rage In Eden_, so it’s 24/96 stereo.
I’ll leave my confusion re naming and tagging stuff for another time, that’s definitely a problem with me, not the player (although any recommendations for a tagger that works on the Mac and is ideally free are welcome - I’m using Musicbrainz Picard and being driven nuts by certain aspects of it - my preference is still for one FLAC per album, but I’m not entirely clear re file naming and placement for something like the box set I’m testing)
However, every track I play has a clear pop/click right at the beginning and another at the end. This happened both with playing back from the single FLAC, and playing the album as individual FLACs. The audio is being played back over the DAC+ headphone jack connected via cable my Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones. The actual audio is gorgeous, but the clicks are driving me to distraction.
As a test I’ve just put one title on the drive - I’d ripped it as a single FLAC with CUE but I’ve also tried it with the FLAC transcoded to individual files. The music I’m playing is one of the hi-res audio DVDs from the recent deluxe release of Ultravox’s _Rage In Eden_, so it’s 24/96 stereo.
I’ll leave my confusion re naming and tagging stuff for another time, that’s definitely a problem with me, not the player (although any recommendations for a tagger that works on the Mac and is ideally free are welcome - I’m using Musicbrainz Picard and being driven nuts by certain aspects of it - my preference is still for one FLAC per album, but I’m not entirely clear re file naming and placement for something like the box set I’m testing)
However, every track I play has a clear pop/click right at the beginning and another at the end. This happened both with playing back from the single FLAC, and playing the album as individual FLACs. The audio is being played back over the DAC+ headphone jack connected via cable my Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones. The actual audio is gorgeous, but the clicks are driving me to distraction.
