My own setup is a raspberry pi in the cupboard under the telly, with the audio running into the stereo system line-in and an external powered usb drive for my music collection. I have a few sd cards with different distros on them for different purposes, simply plugging the card in to the pi for the job at hand.
For my mp3/ogg playing I have a card with raspbian installed, set to boot to command line only, with mpd, ssh and samba running. I rip my music from my desktop, editing metadata with picard if necessary, and copy them over to the samba share. I ssh into the pi if I need to change anything.
For playing the music I use an mpd client on my android phone (there are various ones). The electricity supply for pi and the usb drive are connected to a single power supply remote control. So to play my music there is a bit of remote control juggling hell, but it can all be done from the horizontal position on the sofa; power on the pi & usb drive, power on the stereo & open up the mpd client on my phone and press play.
If I remember when setting it up months ago, I had to play with alsamixer after ssh'ing into the pi to get the sound right, but once done I haven't touched it. The only thing I have to remember is, if I was using a different distro previously that needed a gui, is to unplug the hdmi cable first - otherwise the sound goes to the telly and not to the stereo through the audio out jack-plug.
Obviously not everyone's idea of a music system but it suits me OK.
Regards,
Martin
On 10/09/13 09:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
but all I can say is, this is not really working for me. Time to look for something else!
Al
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