Linux Music Servers

[Natural Sound]

How's the USB stability on Arch with Raspberry Pi?  I had a heck of a time with Squeezeplug (which is Raspian) at first until I ran an experimental kernel which seems to have fixed the crashes.  My uptime is now weeks.

John

Solid as a rock so far with Arch. Same with Rasbian. Keep in mind I don't use my USB DAC on the Raspberry Pi. My ALIX computer does that duty. Getting a USB DAC to run on the Raspberry Pi has been a nightmare for me. I've tried most of the tricks online and I'm still struggling. That project has been shelved for now.

 

[John EH]

How's the USB stability on Arch with Raspberry Pi?  I had a heck of a time with Squeezeplug (which is Raspian) at first until I ran an experimental kernel which seems to have fixed the crashes.  My uptime is now weeks.

John

Solid as a rock so far with Arch. Same with Rasbian. Keep in mind I don't use my USB DAC on the Raspberry Pi. My ALIX computer does that duty. Getting a USB DAC to run on the Raspberry Pi has been a nightmare for me. I've tried most of the tricks online and I'm still struggling. That project has been shelved for now.

I had the same problem but found an experimental kernel.  Since I installed it my system hasn't crashed once.  I also used a wireless dongle based on the RT2800 chip that I think was problematic.

Towards the bottom of my project page are the 3 commands for the git core kernel.  I've got RPi running rock solid now.  I also wrote a file to check the squeezelite process every 5 minutes and made a cron to restart it if it wasn't running.

http://www.hagensieker.com/styled-9/index.html

 

[Natural Sound]

Oddly enough the [rpi-update] worked by itself. I must have been using an older version of firmware on the SD card. I'm using a VA Labs DAC on the Pi running pianobar for Pandora in my shop. Raspberry Pi > VA Labs DAC > Bottlehead Quickie > Jerry's 15 Watt x 2 Class D Audio Amplifier > Vintage Warfdales. The clicks and pops are gone for now after the upgrade. If I have any other problems in the future I'll try running the experimental firmware. I think I've made a step in the right direction. Thanks.

BTW this PI is running AdaFruit's Raspberry Pi Educational Distro - Occidentalis v0.2. Its basically Rasbian "Weezy" with some extra goodies built in.
http://learn.adafruit.com/pi-wifi-radio

 

[caffeinator]

Hello all,

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but a question from a linux newbie here.  I'd like to set up a linux box for a music server as well as to store other files (pictures, backup from home office computer), and wondered if there's a linux distribution that might be good for that sort of duty?

thanks,

david

 

[2wo]

Vortexbox is free. Vortexbox.org...John

 

[Natural Sound]

As stated above I use Voyage MPD http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-mpd

 

[caffeinator]

Has anyone had any experience running these music servers as VM's as part of a Linux server?

Any issues or considerations?  Better to have a dedicated machine?