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  1. Hi mike, Installing Mpd is simple. You do need access to the terminal though. You can use something like putty or webssh on an iPad. Log on as root user then use this command: yum install mpd that's it using it is trickier though. By default you're using Squeezelite and you need to swap that out and run mpd. I'd did this by creating two script files. A lot of commands seem to run from the /etc directory so put them there. Use : cd /etc to move to that directory Create a file for mpd commands: vi runmpd.sh press i and paste up to the blank line. Then save the file with ZZ (that's 2 uppercase z's) systemctl stop squeezelite0 systemctl disable squeezelite0 systemctl start mpd systemctl enable mpd alsactl restore Change permissions with: chmod u+x runmpd.sh repeat the above process to create a file called squeeze.sh with the commands below systemctl stop mpd systemctl disable mpd systemctl start squeezelite0 systemctl enable squeezelite0 alsactl restore Now you can run either one like so from /etc ./runmpd.sh this will swap out the current running app, ie Squeezelite in this case, for mpd. Likewise, run ./squeeze.sh to active Squeezelite. i went one step further and hacked the vortexbox gui to add menu options to run the script files. But I haven't had time to document the changes I made to accomplish that yet. hope that helps anyway.....
  2. Hi magchiel. This is interesting to hear. I agree. i use a vortexbox source where MPD was the default player on version 2.1. I upgraded to version 2.3 which installs only Squeezelite as the default player. Initially I wasn't concerned as I like the Squeezelite apps better than mpad on the iPad. But like you I found it very fatiguing. initially I thought it was down to the fact I'd upgraded. After all that's a kernel change etc. I posted about it on the VB forum but I think they thought I was crazy. I then installed MPD on the same system. In A-B comparisons with same hardware and same files I detected just a little extra brightness or harshness at the top end with Squeezelite which I attributed to the fatigue. Conversely, MPD was a little warmer and natural sounding. i spent ages going through settings but couldn't fix it. I only use MPD now.
  3. i got my regen last week and I wasn't impressed either. But I left it burbling away in the background for 20 hours or so and it definitely improved. I'm not blown away but it's an improvement, so stick with it. that said I just realised its broken my playback of 24bit 96hz flac files. I now get crackles and pops that I never got before. I'm on an old version of the Linux kernel with some known issues though so an upgrade of the OS beckons this weekend which had better fix it....
  4. ok, left my system playing for most of yesterday so it's had about 15 -20 hours now and the difference has become much more evident. I can easily detect more natural vocals, better sound staging and deeper bass. it's not a night and day difference. Depends on the recording quality I guess but I'm happy. my advice to anyone who was also initially disappointed with the Regen is to give it 20 hours or so of continuous play then have another listen.
  5. Already posted on the listening impressions thread so I'm won't repeat everything here, however vortexbox appliance - ifi Mercury - regen - hard adaptor - Audiolab Mdac I'm powering the vortexbox and Regen from an hdplex lpsu, using the 9v output for the regen. Difference the regen makes is for the better but in my system is subtle at best.
  6. Well I got my regen yesterday. vortexbox appliance - ifi Mercury - regen - hard adaptor - audiolab mdac I'm powering the vortexbox and Regen from an hdplex lpsu, using the 9v output for the regen. initially, I was completely underwhelmed. I really couldn't tell the difference with or without. I left it playing for a few hours and came back. Still not much. Now after quite a number of with/without comparisons I would say it does make a difference. Slightly more controlled bass. Vocals seem a little more natural, a slightly bright edge to the sound has gone. so it's a subtle but welcome improvement for me. Maybe it will continue to improve with a few more hours of play. If it does I'll report back
  7. Thanks, always like to have options. Order placed....
  8. I've been following this thread with interest and am ready to buy one of these. What did cause me to hesitate a bit was cable availability. It's not a problem today, but if I ever wanted an extra gx16-2 to dc jack cable where would I source one? These things seem impossible to buy online (I've spent ages looking). Is it a case that you would need to request from Larry or does anyone know of other sources?
  9. Hi guys, My first post and glad to be part of the community. Been lurking here a while now. Some advice would be great. Currently I use a vortexbox appliance to serve music and also the vb mpd player connected via USB to my audiolab mdac. It's all good but I kind of feel that the server and player should be separate boxes based on the assumption that the less the player has to do the better for sound quality? so I was contemplating one of the following: 1) mini itx based player - Linux based using mpd 2) raspberry pi using volumio, but concerned by the USB/Ethernet shared bus 3) beaglebone black with volumio which gets around the rpi bus issue but I understand the clock cannot natively handle 44.1kbps since it works in multiples of 48kbps only Questions 1) am I wasting my time? Is my vb combined server/player going to be as good as separating the functions into different boxes? 2) is the bbb considered a better option than rpi? 3) most of my music collection is 44.1kbps (cd rips) so I expect that the bbb would upsample to 48k and thus present a non bit perfect stream? But if I'm outputting to an async USB dac, is this relevant? Thanks Edit Should have posted this under 'music servers'... Sorry
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