@multiblitz : Glad that it works for you after several difficulties you had. Do you think your new Alix board (is that Alix 1D ?) with standard USB sounds better than 3D2 ? Which one is better : your new Alix setup or your old Win + Jriver setup ? I've been eyeing that Alix 1D, but the shipping to m...

I would never use software volume control , that's why I build my DAC with 12 steps passive attenuator (only costs about 25$) on the output. That SOTM card is sooo expensive. Add Lucien's famous XMOS kit, all will cost about 500$ just for the USB connection only. Lot more expensive than the whole PC...

Bothe have no mods on the PSU...the Alix is powered with a small switching PSU and the Biostar with a Silverstone fanless. Alix as well ist just playing now 2 hours, not burned in at all so far...I guess I will give it some Oscons and a large filtering bank... I read somewhere on diyaudio forum tha...

For your reference, the boards I've tested : Intel D410 MSI E350IA-E45 JW 2500 Issues discovered : Graphic driver problem on the JW as mentioned by Idolse, not an issue for me as mostly I use CLI. On one of them I had a problem with DHCP (between the Intel & MSI, I don't remember which one) and ...

@multiblitz So now you're sure that your mpd is properly conencted to LAN. I suspect that WHS share is not properly mounted to "/mnt/music" directory, so mpd failed to start as it cannot find the music directory. First, check if mpd started and load it's library with your songs. Type "...

After all this bad luck I tried now to connect via Gnome from a Windows PC. error code 13 or error code 12. No connection poosible. So, I GUESS...I need to do something about the IP-Adress and / or the Router-setting. Any hints are highly welcome. On The IP...I believe that it should got its IP fro...

Idolse, the behaviour was observed with both FLAC & MP3. The increase seems to be correspond to the file size. If I play a song which has been previously played, nothing happens to the RAM usage.

I notice strange RAM behaviour where the RAM usage increases whenever a new song is played until a point where it is stabilized (in my case it is 1.4GB out of 2GB total RAM). It seems that mpd just "stack" new songs without flush the previous songs from the RAM. My system RAM usage starts ...

@Toine : you're lucky, my wife wouldn't even bother about my music :oops: the only think she bothers is my spending for audio stuffs. I think the best donation could be given to mpdpup is to spread the word. I've tried on some audio forum in my country, but not easy as majority of people are still a...

The boot speed also depends on the system where the boot device is attached. On my AMD E350 based system, new USB stick is significantly faster than CF with CF-SATA adapter. But on my Intel D2500 system, they're equally fast, less than 30s to boot. I don't have any fancy CF card, the one I use is 10...

Toine, You can use about any type / brand of USB stick. The only difference will be the boot up speed. After boot, everything is loaded to RAM, so the speed of the stick won't be important anymore. I've tested mpdpup on a very old 128MB stick I had from 2005 as well as new 4GB Toshiba stick. New sti...

Hi Idolse, Is it possible to have FTP server integrated on your next release ? It will be useful to copy files to the server for someone who store the music collection on internal disk. It doesn't have to be on all the time, just fired it up when necessary. And a package manager will be a very nice ...

So I decide to get serious on this. My plan : STEP 1 Somehow my Intel D410 board is now RIP (currently uses my MSI E-350 board previously uses as Win music server) so I ordered a J&W Minix D2500 which supposedly consume less power & produces less heat than D410. It is powered from external 1...

Glad to hear it's working. Are you sure MPD is actually playing 50% lower? i.e. when you fix it with alsamixer it gets dramatically louder? With those settings it should be bypassing the volume altogether based on my understanding - either it's a bug in mpd or it's impossible to disable the hardwar...

I confirm that mpdpup works with Tenor TE7022 USB chip. In my case, it always reset to 50% volume after boot although I already put following lines on the mpd.conf : mixer_type "none" mixer_device "disabled" auto_resample "no" auto_format "no" Question : What ...

Hi Idolse,
Now I run mpdpup from CF with CF-SATA adapter. I don't see any message that indicates that the OS is copied to RAM during the boot. It was there when I boot from USB disk. Does it mean that the OS now runs from the CF ?

Thanks in advance

@Douwe, My Atom board is Intel D410 which is very very basic (single core, no hdmi, usb3, etc), most of unnecessary devices has been disabled from the BIOS. I don't know about the power management as I only find 2 or 3 chokes on the board. But I'm curious how do you extend the heatshink ? I'll get t...

@idolse : thanks for the confirmation that mpdpup is bitperfect, I can sleep well now. @Douwe : I use similar setup as yours (Atom + picopsu). Currently the picopsu connects to an external 12v SMPS. Would you mind to share the schematic of your linear PSU ? And do you think that Atom is sounds bette...

@Idolse : My primary reason to get the Alix board is because it will be easier to implement a linear power supply due to its' significantly lower power consumption. And my fanless Atom board is warm even though I already disable the CPU hyperthreading from the BIOS. I found used Alix 3d2 complete wi...

I found a local seller for Alix 3D2 (about 100$) and 3C1 (about 70$). Is it a good idea to grab one of them ? My only concern is how to do the initial setup as they don't have any video out ? Can I simply boot mpdpup and done everything else from ssh ?