Hi Tom,
Sounds like the display for your PC is connected to an HDMI output on your AVR and not directly to the PC.
If you want to use your AVR to switch between PC audio and Moode audio output and still have PC display active, one option is to connect PC directly to your display via HDMI and then use something other than HDMI on PC to connect to AVR for example most PC's also have a S/PDIF output. See attached diagram.
There may be other ways.
-Tim
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Hi Giorgino,
What do you mean by "broken"?
Reboot then post contents of moode log so I can see your configuration.
cat /var/log/moode.log
-Tim
Now I see, you use one monitor via the AVR as your PC screen, but also use the AVR to listen to the Pi output.
As Tim suggests could you feed your monitor direct from your PC, bypassing the AVR, then the AVR can be used to listen. Most monitors have several inputs, you could use one for the PC and one for the AVR.
Hope you can find a permutation of connections that allows both sound and PC vision.
Ian
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Moode 3.1 does not support 0W.
Upcoming Moode 3.5 release supports 0W and will be released after I finish stress testing it.
-Tim
Stress? Surely not?
Stress = less bugs (another of Einsteins lesser known equations)
Hi,
Would it be possible to add album shuffle option to 3.5? It is the thing I miss the most.
something like https://github.com/f0rki/mpd-album-shuffle
Would probably be better if it works like ashuffle and pick and album from the repository in random and add it to the playlist and remove it when done and load another.
The current shuffle modes are not great for classical music or if you want to hear the albums in the order the musician dictates. Obvious examples are "the wall". You get the whole introduction "when we grew up..." and the song changes just before "we don't need no education"
Hope this is clear
Regards,
Moshe
Would it be possible to add album shuffle option to 3.5? It is the thing I miss the most.
something like https://github.com/f0rki/mpd-album-shuffle
Would probably be better if it works like ashuffle and pick and album from the repository in random and add it to the playlist and remove it when done and load another.
The current shuffle modes are not great for classical music or if you want to hear the albums in the order the musician dictates. Obvious examples are "the wall". You get the whole introduction "when we grew up..." and the song changes just before "we don't need no education"
Hope this is clear
Regards,
Moshe
I was intrigued by your question. I know I had a rotary encoder around here somewhere but it took me a few days to find it. It seems that most rotary encoders have a built in switch which I was not aware of. So once I found mine I soldered up some wires a gave it a try.
To answer your question about GPIO 23 and 24, the rotary encoder will only work properly if it is connected correctly. Since mine does not have a circuit board, I didn't know which pin was which. I put the ground wire on the center pin and connected the outside pins to GPIO 23 and 24. However, when I first hooked up my encoder it was working backwards. Turning it clockwise made the volume go down. I reversed the wires on GPIO 23 and 24 and it worked correctly.
While I was wiring up the encoder I also wired up the switch. One side to ground and the other side I connected to GPIO 25. Then I followed the instructions found on the following page for making the switch work with play/pause in MPD.
Hardware Play/Pause Button : Raspberry Pi - Page 2 • RuneAudio Forum
I changed the hw_pause_play.py script to use GPIO 25: InputPin = 22
Once I had tested the script I also commented out the print statement.
I did not have a "system" directory in /usr/lib/systemd so I created one.
I also made one change to the systemd unit file hw_pause_play.service: Description=Moode Audio Pause/Play
I like this little mod as it only takes two files, and one additional wire. You can use four pins in a row (16, 18, 20 & 22) on the GPIO connector so it is a compact installation.
This works for me, but there may be better and simpler ways to do this. There are a number of forum members with a lot more experience with this sort of thing than I have. I hope they will check this out and let us know if we can make any improvements.
Cheers, Bryce.
Excellent, Bryce. Hard to get much more simple than what you have done. Thanks.
Hi,
I'm very much a 'noob' here and also pretty ignorant about this digital format - I've read/reread the first couple hundred posts here but, unfortunately, not much wiser.
However, I'm told that I don't really have to understand how it all works before putting it into service just the same as I do with the jRiver program on my laptop.
A question ...
Will the RPi3 function with my Ayre Acoustic QB-9dsd DAC? Apparently, this uses Gordon Rankin's 'Streamlength Asynchronous usb' system where the dac 'talks back' (?) to the computer
2nd Question ... Is it possible to insert a dsp crossover program into the RPi3 so that there is 2 separate usb outputs that can feed 2 discrete dacs (for a high pass signal and a low pass signal)?
Or, if not, is it possible to 'piggy-back' another RPi3 on top to achieve a similar result?
I'm very much a 'noob' here and also pretty ignorant about this digital format - I've read/reread the first couple hundred posts here but, unfortunately, not much wiser.
However, I'm told that I don't really have to understand how it all works before putting it into service just the same as I do with the jRiver program on my laptop.
A question ...
Will the RPi3 function with my Ayre Acoustic QB-9dsd DAC? Apparently, this uses Gordon Rankin's 'Streamlength Asynchronous usb' system where the dac 'talks back' (?) to the computer
2nd Question ... Is it possible to insert a dsp crossover program into the RPi3 so that there is 2 separate usb outputs that can feed 2 discrete dacs (for a high pass signal and a low pass signal)?
Or, if not, is it possible to 'piggy-back' another RPi3 on top to achieve a similar result?
It worked! Sorry it took so long to check. I am not keen on stopping the music so waited for the next album...
Thanks again!
Moshe
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nOOb - selected I2S, removed all cards and rebooted system. I could the select "USB device"..... RTFM...
**not relevant** started off afresh and moving from volumio to moode (to give it a try). I'm having trouble connecting my usb diyinhk xmos es9023 dac.
aplay give card 1 but mpd want's to play card 0
under configuration audio, a cannot select generic card 4 (es92023) but under customize audio device description i can select this device. Neither way will give me working audio.
What can I do to make my usb dac work (on aply shown as D20). I'm using the latest software.
Ralph
nOOb - selected I2S, removed all cards and rebooted system. I could the select "USB device"..... RTFM...
**not relevant** started off afresh and moving from volumio to moode (to give it a try). I'm having trouble connecting my usb diyinhk xmos es9023 dac.
aplay give card 1 but mpd want's to play card 0
under configuration audio, a cannot select generic card 4 (es92023) but under customize audio device description i can select this device. Neither way will give me working audio.
What can I do to make my usb dac work (on aply shown as D20). I'm using the latest software.
Ralph
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oops, just saw where I earnt the honor of being a Doh-nut. I didn't realize that there was a link on this post?? Again forgive me
regards
Tom
Hi Tim,
Thanks very much. That's a lot of stuff that appeared on the screen as a result of those commands. I'm not sure what I should be looking for. At the moment, the RPi seems to be behaving itself. I will wait until it freezes again to test.
best regards,
Chi