There’s no shortage of machines that find it hard work making ridiculously compressed music sound listenable, but the Sony manages it. Internet radio is, of course, a hazardous melting pot of seriously low bitrates (some fall well into double-figures).
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I can then replace a corrupted SD card with the backed up SD image and be up and running again in minutes.A 320kbps AAC rip of Eminem’s Bad Guy obviously lacks the dynamic headroom and outright resolution of the CD original, but the Sony’s forgiving ability to unearth detail and keep the organisation and rhythm of the track intact is a real highlight. 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. (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.
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The HD attached to my Mac is then backed up to the cloud using Carbonite so all my music files are safe. I back up the USB NAS music drive regularly using Chronosync to a HD attached to my Mac. Earlier version of MC26 did have issues with multi-channel audio (dropouts, in particular), but those have been cleared up since at least 103. Where can I get a copy? I'd love to hear that Jazz band!Ībout dropouts: I have not had any dropouts, pops, or other anomalies with the latest release of MC. That audio tuning CD sounds pretty awesome. Quote from: Dennis in FL on September 15, 2020, 04:36:01 am I too have all music on a USB hard drive. You have to buy a $70 adapter which I'm not doing. Update: Just found out that Apple removed Toslink from newer desktops. 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.īut.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? One of the best multi channel tunes I have is from an audio tuning CD. I can also run an optical from my Mac to my Marantz.
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I have to figure out how to transfer the library from the iMac to the Raspi But that's silly, isn't it? But just in case, I have backups of the hard drive and the SD card. And my mind said - maybe it can also wipe a hard drive. My worry in the past was - I read somewhere that a power failure easily corrupts the Raspi SD card. I too have all music on a USB hard drive. It took a couple months, and it was worth it. Quote from: Kimota on July 28, 2020, 11:06:04 pm In this time of the Pandemic, it's nice to FINALLY be able to sit back and enjoy my multi-channel 5.1 DSD music on MediaCenter. Suggestions, anyone? And does someone want to sell me the SACD multi-channel disk of "Romantic Warrior" by Return to Forever? However, the sound quality on my mid-range set-up is good enough for my ears that I'm not going to complain.īig KUDOS to JRiver for getting MediaCenter to this point! I'm happy, and now I'm going full-speed ahead with collecting more multi-channel SACD disks. I haven't done an A/B comparison against the original SACD tracks. The playback is converted to multi-channel PCM on-the-fly. The bad: It's not playing in native DSD due to limitations of the hardware and drivers. Examples: "Levon" and "Razor Face" are excellent! But I was not as impressed with "Tiny Dancer," although it's still good. "Madman Across The Water" by Elton John is also nice, although the surround mix are better on some cuts. My favorite disks so far (and I'm just starting my collection) are "The Nightfly" by Donald Fagen and "Hotel California" by the Eagles. Prior to the latest version, the playback seemed to be 3db or more lower than the original source material. Plus, the sound levels seemed to now be on par with the source disk. No pops or stutters like I was having a few months ago. The playback in Dolby Surround 5.1 sounds FANTASTIC. The good: I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) with Linux, playing back multi-channel DSD files I ripped from the SACD source disks, sending the audio over HDMI to a Marantz SR6013. In this time of the Pandemic, it's nice to FINALLY be able to sit back and enjoy my multi-channel 5.1 DSD music on MediaCenter.
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