Blu99Zoomer

Thanks Chris for the review. But also for the nice link to the Bandcamp copy of Jack Johnson. I have gratefully used BC before for Roosevelt Dime. Just downloaded the complete Brushfire Fairytales album and am enjoying the rim shots and cymbal rides by his drummer. I only played the album from the website player last night three times in a row!! That and the dancing around the house kept me up later than I intended. On my main rig through speakers I was in the studio while they recorded. Nice job of remastering!! Makes me want to listen to the vinyl and cd formats for comparison. Thanks again. Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

Hi dennis_k85, I am running JRiver on my music PC as a player. I use my BBB as a renderer only, as Chris' article describes. I use JRemote on my iPhone 5 as a control point. It works nicely. Hope this helps. Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

dennis_k85, Which player software are you using on the PC? Or is the PC acting as a NAS library only? Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

Hi dennis_85, What kind of equipment are you using and in what order do you turn on the pieces? Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

Hi gabeg, I went to a Head-Fi meet over the weekend in NYC. One of the attendees mentioned a "Botic driver" with regards getting BBB to operate its sound smoothly. Don't know if that will help you. I am still looking into it. Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

Were you able to determine if increasing the buffer size of alsa would cure your "gurgles"? I will occasionally have to restart JRiver when I hear just garbled noise on start up. Same thing maybe? Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

Cheers again to Chris for another of his thoughtfully put together articles on this fun hobby!! Nice work Chris! Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

Hi gabeg, I am new to the bb and Raspberry Pi platforms. I am also not sure how JRiver reads the information on the bbb. Does the bbb hide the signal from the dac that JRiver would normally receive? I am familiar with how JRiver plays into my DAC2 HGC through a usb cable. I am able to see a bit perfect indicator. So the dac and JRiver must have a handshake, no? Shouldn't the bbb, as a dlna device, also handshake with the computer and thus JRiver? Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

P.P.P.S.S.(I didn't do well in English in 9th grade so I don't get the order of the P's and S's correctly. Sorry.) Hi All, I had a chance to put the DAC2 HGC back into the chain with the BBB between the computer outputting the music files and my dac. The BBB is fed from my router via ethernet cable into the BBB. I am using the usb output from the BBB into my DAC2 HGC. What I hadn't done was as Chris noted, tick all the DSD boxes. But I also hadn't specified "NetAudio" as the extra zone player, as Chris did with his "Cortes" in his example. (This is the name JRiver is calling the BBB so I kept the name for now.) So I changed those last night. This morning, I did notice a click once on music start up. JRiver 20 did stop working once and I had to reboot it. I still don't get a blue lit audio path button. I note a "Not using JRiver audio engine" message on both input and output when I mouse over that button to check. But at the moment, the DAC2 HGC front lights indicate I am playing the dsd format for my Abraxas DSD download. I have heard several other clicks, too. The blue usb light on the front of the DAC2 HGC flickers and music is interrupted momentarily with the click. Hmmmm. I am tempted to reformat the micro usb card and reload the BBB's instructions, reboot the system and try again. The music I am hearing for now, coming out of the DAC2 HGC into my Mr. Speakers Alpha Primes has my toes a tappin' and the rest of my day is on hold while I am enjoying Mr. Carlos Santana's fine work!! More on this story later... Best, Blu99Zoomer

P.P.S. After making the changes you suggested Chris for DSD playback, I am still not getting bit perfect playback through the BBB even when playing 16/44.1 files, which the Emotiva XDA-1 can play. I am able to play files, except for DSD. They sound fine to my untrained ear. But I am not getting a bit perfect blue highlighted Audio Path button. (I have a "not using JRiver engine" warning for both input and output.) I went back to the computer sound card and checked sound devices. The BBB(Which JRiver called NetAudio) doesn't show up there but it does on network devices screen, nor does the Emotiva dac for that matter. I am also not able to play a system test sound via the BBB. I can through the "local player", my DAC2 HGC though. I knew I should have studied those computer books instead of using them to start up the wood stove... Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer

HI Chris, I tried those changes tonight, but I will have to move the DAC2 HGC back to the living room set up this weekend when I have more time to find out for sure if it works. The Emotiva dac can not play DSD. So I get a fault indicator in JRiver and music won't play through the BBB at all. Thanks though. Best, Blu99Zoomer

HI Chris, I am new to this site as a poster. I have been avidly reading CA for years! Great work Chris, and many others. I have had lots of fun and educational reading. Thanks to all for sharing your experiences here. Your recent article on assembling a BeagleBone Black seemed easy enough for me to try the project. I have wanted to take my music storage out of the listening room to hear the advantages for myself. So this past weekend I put a BBB together and placed it into my system. I am listening to my music played by JRiver on the living room system. The music and JRiver are stored on a Windows computer in the office and play via an ethernet wired BBB into an older Emotiva XDA-1. It sounds pretty good. But I am using my older and simpler dac because when I tried to play DSD files through the BBB into my DAC2 HGC, they was down sampled to PCM 24/176. I pulled the DAC2 HGC out of the chain and it plays DSD bit perfect direct from the computer via usb. I did try restarting all pieces without change noted. When I looked at JRiver to be sure I had that set correctly it said I was not using JRiver's engine to play the music. Fiddling with JRiver settings yielded some of the stuttering that's mentioned above. But only when I forgot to stop playback while making the changes. Otherwise the system has played flawlessly, but not bit perfectly. I wonder if there are any suggestions from the very knowledgeable CA readers that I might try to get my DAC2 HGC back in the main listening system and playing bit perfectly? Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Thanks again for a wonderful site!!!!! Best Regards, Blu99Zoomer