More > JRiver Media Center 26 for Linux
MC 26.0.103 (32-bit) FINALLY playing DSD multichannel files properly!
Kimota:
--- Quote from: Dennis in FL on September 15, 2020, 04:36:01 am ---I too have all music on a USB hard drive.
My worry in the past was ---- I read somewhere that a power failure easily corrupts the Raspi SD card. And my mind said -- maybe it can also wipe a hard drive. But that's silly, isn't it? But just in case, I have backups of the hard drive and the SD card. So maybe I'll give it a shot today. I have to figure out how to transfer the library from the iMac to the Raspi
I can also run an optical from my Mac to my Marantz. I was thinking of trying that as well.
One of the best multi channel tunes I have is from an audio tuning CD. When you get finished setting up your speakers, they had a Jazz band playing "Struttin' with some BBQ" in 5.1 and I can't get the darn thing out of 2.1 no matter what I do.
But...one question....have you had any audio dropouts with the Raspi playing hi res music? Maybe two questions....do you leave it on 24/7?
Update: Just found out that Apple removed Toslink from newer desktops. You have to buy a $70 adapter which I'm not doing.
--- End quote ---
Wow. That audio tuning CD sounds pretty awesome. Where can I get a copy? I'd love to hear that Jazz band!
About dropouts: I have not had any dropouts, pops, or other anomalies with the latest release of MC. Earlier version of MC26 did have issues with multi-channel audio (dropouts, in particular), but those have been cleared up since at least 103.
I leave the RPi4 on 24/7. I back up the USB NAS music drive regularly using Chronosync to a HD attached to my Mac. The HD attached to my Mac is then backed up to the cloud using Carbonite so all my music files are safe. (This really works: I recently had to restore my external HD by getting a disk sent from Carbonite to my home - and thankfully all my critical files were there!) I also make an image copy of the RPi4 SD card using a known-good version of MC. Once I've been using a version of MC for a while without any problems (about 2 or 3 weeks), I'll then make an image copy of the RPi4 SD card. I can then replace a corrupted SD card with the backed up SD image and be up and running again in minutes.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version