01-01-2024, 04:45 PM
(11-28-2023, 08:03 AM)the_bertrum Wrote: Using a DAC should also help with the stuttering, as well as making everything sound loads better.
Well I bought a HiFiBerry DAC+ and mounted it on my RPi4B, running Raspian, and learned how to edit config.txt so the Pi would use it. But the same thing happened, but only with the 19kHz 24bit streams! Any streaming music with a lower frequency worked and sounded very good. So I think it's intrinsic to the Pi's processor not being powerful enough to decode the incoming 192kHz and send it to the DAC. I might experiment with lighter OS. Would a Pi5 be able to do this? Nowhere on the web, or even in the Cambridge Pi shop have I found the answer!
A few days later I discovered that Presto Music have started selling their own dedicated streamer, costing less than RPi + DAC, so I bought one. It's a small black box very neat that joins the home wi-fi and then is controlled from the Presto App on your phone or PC. It has a line-out jack. The sound from that was amazing, so I have a solution now. Albeit it is tied to Presto, but I am very happy with their products.
Happy New Year to all. Best wishes, Matthew
