![]() ![]() My one wish would be that the opening around the SD card be a little larger to make it easier to remove (to back it up). The case didn't come with instructions but it was pretty easy to figure out. Pressing the 502DAC card down onto the 40-pin connector on the Raspberry Pi and assembling the 502DAC Acrylic case around the two. ![]() It sounds great on my sister's modest system (an older Harman/Kardon receiver and a pair of old Bose 201 series speakers.) All of the above hardware came to just under $300 and the software ran an additional $60 or so. I use this to create both FLAC output for the music server and MP3 output for portable devices (each in their own directory tree) during a single rip pass. You can configure the software to generate files in multiple formats (in different directory trees) automatically as you rip a CD.This greatly reduces the amount of time it takes to get a good rip of a CD. If it matches then dbPoweramp stops and doesn't continue to exhaustively verify that it has a bit-perfect rip of that track. The software generates a hash or digital fingerprint based on what results from the rip and compares that to an online database of hashes generated by other users of dbPoweramp that have ripped the same CD.It has some features I find very useful, namely: They have versions for Macs or PCs and it is $39 for a single license and $68 for the ability to install it on up to 5 computers. dbPowerAmp is the software that I use to rip CDs into the music server.For Android users, Orange Squeeze is a decent app. iPeng 9 is the software my sister uses to control the Logitech Music Server.Using this will not only made it easier to set up the music server, but will also make it easier for the technically nervous to maintain and update it going down the road. Max2Play is a software package put together by a company in Germany that bundles the Linux operating system that you will need to run the Raspberry Pi along with drivers for various expansion cards (Hats) and various options for music servers into an easy to manage package.You can also use Wifi, but I have had superior results using Ethernet. An inexpensive Ethernet cable to connect the Raspberry Pi to your home network.The Blue Jeans LC-1 cable is a decent RCA cable that you would use to connect the DAC to your stereo receiver.The Pi 2 Design 502DAC Acrylic case is a case specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi and the 502DAC cards.Pi 2 Design also makes a better and more expensive version of this card (the 502DAC Pro), but this lesser card emulates the HifiBerry cards, so it would be easier to use with the Max2Play operating system (which supports the HifiBerry cards already, but doesn't yet support the newer 502DAC cards natively). This is a card that provides a lot of flexibility because you can start out using it as a DAC in its own right, but can easily add on an external DAC later if you want to improve your system even further. The Pi 2 Design 502DAC is both a DAC, and an S/PDIF + AES transport (so it does both what the DAC+ and the Digi+/DigiOne cards do).The Samsung card we bought is a pretty fast one with ample space for the software needed to run the Pi. You will need a memory card to install in the Raspberry Pi which will be used to run the operating system for the Pi.The one I got my sister was a Seagate drive that happened to be on sale for ~$80 at the time. An external hard drive to store the music.There are various vendors that resell the base Raspberry Pi with the various parts you need to get it to work (such as a power supply, etc.) I've used CanaKit in the past and they have a decent base kit which includes a modest power supply and a pair of heat sinks for the processors on the boards. The parts list for what I built was as follows: The base of the system is also a Raspberry Pi, but using a Pi2Design 502DAC hat and running Max2Play for the operating system/management system and Logitech Media Server (LMS)/Squeezelite for the music server/player. My sister is not inclined to have to fiddle too much with technology so I wanted to get her set up with something that would be fairly easy to maintain. I recently built a similar system for my sister, but took a slightly different route. Thanks for this write up! It is great documentation on how to perform one of these builds and helpful to those who are initially nervous about undertaking something like this. ![]()
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