Raspberry Pi and Rune - HiFi Streamer

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Having finally given up on my Raumfeld connector 2 music streamer, so I started looking up media streamers.

A few minutes later I can across an article telling me about a raspberry pi img and software called rune.

It runs on a stripped down version of arch Linux, it's not very big about 700mb ish.

So far I have it running on my pi, it's scanning my FreeNAS music shares.

And it seems I can also get decent dac boards for the Pi.

Now if I can also get it to play my internet radio stations, I will be very happy with this combination.

 

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it plays my internet radio stations

 

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Rune playing an internet stream



Will try my beloved coco radio soon

 

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Using my iPhone as a web remote :-)

 

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But does it come with an attractive £250+ price tag and fancy box ?

 

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But does it come with an attractive £250+ price tag and fancy box ?

No it's doesn't come with a fancy box, or an expensive price tag. still pricing parts up at the moment as I don't want to keep unplugging my only pi.

I am looking at deals on kits etc, but this definitely seems the way forward

 

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Our local charity shop had a Pi kit 'B'- unwanted Christmas present - for £27. Not sure if it is still there though.

 

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I have finally ordered the parts

Parts list

Raspberry Pi model 3B+ board £28.80 (tatty boxes)

RASPBERRY Pi 3 Model B Wireless Lan 1.2GHz Quad Core 64Bit 1GB RAM (V) | eBay

Raspberry Pi fi digital converter coaxial/spdif board £12.35 (bought mine from amazon)

HIFI DiGi+ Digital Sound Card I2S SPDIF Optical Fiber RCA Raspberry Pi 2/ A+/ B+ | eBay

Raspberry Pi heat sinks £1.57

3pcs Heatsink Aluminium Cooler with 3M Thermal Adhesive Pads for Raspberry Pi | eBay

1.5m raspberry Pi on/off switch £1.38

Micro USB Power Supply Charging Cable With ON/OFF Switch 150CM For Raspberry Pi | eBay

Power supply 4 outputs £13.99 (could have bought cheaper)

Lifetime Warranty Syncwire 4-Port USB Plug Wall Charger US UK EU Travel Adaptor | eBay

Raspberry Pi case £4.99

NEW Acrylic Case&Cooling System External Fan&Screw Driver For Raspberry Pi 3/2 | eBay

Using an old micro sd card setup with rune on it.

Total spend £63.08

 

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I went for the digital out board as I want it to replace my Pioneer N-50 and the Raumfeld connector 2 and plug it in to my maverick D1+.

But you can also swap the digital board for some very good analogue audio outs (for hifi use)

 

[pgh13]

I'm playing with this atm on a Pi model B. I'm impressed with it but find that the volume is too low, whether plugged into the analogue output from the Pi or plugged in to a Fiio USB DAC. Having to have the amp wound up to give a good listening level, I have to remember to turn it down before switching to another source like sat box or CD player (or blow the windows out).
Are you seeing (hearing) the same?

 

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I'm playing with this atm on a Pi model B. I'm impressed with it but find that the volume is too low, whether plugged into the analogue output from the Pi or plugged in to a Fiio USB DAC. Having to have the amp wound up to give a good listening level, I have to remember to turn it down before switching to another source like sat box or CD player (or blow the windows out).
Are you seeing (hearing) the same?

When I tried it, I had it connected via my hdmi output in to my denon av amp and it was fine.

The analogue out via the av cable was very quiet.

The Pi I setup with it is back to normal duties now.

I have ordered another Pi to set up permanently for rune.

Just waiting for the parts to arrive.

 

[pgh13]

It's frustrating. I've been using the Pi with Kodi and found volume to be a problem there too when played through the amplifier and have contemplated building a simple pre-amp to boost the volume.

 

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It's frustrating. I've been using the Pi with Kodi and found volume to be a problem there too when played through the amplifier and have contemplated building a simple pre-amp to boost the volume.

I have always set the amplification to plus 20 db in kodi, and save as the default settings all videos/music.

 

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Got some of the parts I ordered


Raspberry Pi




Heat sinks



Power supply

 

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Still waiting for the dac board, and some usb cables.

 

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@pgh13 try logging in to rune

username: root
password: rune

and use the command

alsamixer

and turn the volume up

 

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Definitely prefer rune now I have the USB volume turned up, and I can hear it properly.

Volume control turned off, it's under mpd.



And the sound signature set to Orion v2

 

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@pgh13 tosort out the volume problem with your usb dac

ssh in to rune
username: root
password: rune

type

alsamixer



press F6 and select the correct name for your usb dac, mine is a mavrick



and use the arrow buttons to adjust the volume to your choice, and press esc.

the type

alsactl store



then every time you reboot or shut it off, it should come back to the same volume.

hope that helps you.