Total newbie, totally lost

[TheOldPresbyope]

Good evening,

I'd like to jump in here on behalf of @01 svtL as I've tried in vain to help him today and it appears he has a corrupt Moode Player. I say that because after an exhaustive check of all relevant settings, he simply gets strange freeze-ups when trying to play a track.

He is using MPD in local playback mode, with a thumb drive attached and scanned in, but attempting to play a track from that library causes a crash and what I consider a tell-tale sign of a corrupted image, a white UI screen.

He can only recover from the white screen with a full power cycle reboot.

So, assuming I'm right and he needs to start with a fresh image, is there anything else anyone can contribute with regard specifically to the Allo DigiOne Signature? Is the driver known to be functioning right in Moode, and are there any other concerns or known issues? I know someone else that uses the non-Signature version of that unit and Moode with zero problems, he loves it.

The other unknown for me is what does Allo ship in terms of microSD card, is it a known quality brand such as SanDisk?

Thanks in advance and please don't shoot the messenger, I'm trying to help a very frustrated newcomer and he either has a corrupt image, or defective hardware, or both.

I should certainly add that all previous replies to the OP here were perfectly reasonable and helpful, but he is a complete newcomer to Raspberry Pi.

Mike

Hi, Mike.

Good of you to step up.

If MPD stops for some reason, you'll get a white screen. From your description, moOde boots up and runs. If MPD is stopping when it tries to play a track, then I'd first suspect the Allo subsystem. Is the Allo driver selected, is it the correct version for the kernel installed with moOde, etc.

A quick test of the install is to go back to the default configuration. In the Audio config panel, set the I2S device to "None" and in the MPD Config panel, be sure the Device type is set to "On-board audio device" (remembering to "Save" if you change it). Then reboot. It should be possible to select and play tracks from the playlist even if there is no physical output device connected to the RPi. If this works, then the problem is the Allo subsystem and/or its configuration. If it doesn't then I'd say, yeah, reinstall.

I have no knowledge of the Allo products and drivers so can't comment further.

Regards,
Kent