Moode Audio Player for Raspberry Pi

Hi TIM,
thank you for you work.

I have purchased a dac board based on Sabre ES9038.
The dac board is connected to the raspberry PI 3 GPIO (i2S).
I tried various settings (Audiophonics ES9018, Audiophonics ES9028, Generic-1 I2S, Generic-2 I2S, Buffalo, HiFiBerry DAC+) but I always have the same behavior.
If I play files with output rate less than 4,000mbps, playback is perfect.
If I play files with speeds greather than 4,000mbps, playback is affected of glitch or backgroud noise.

can you help me?
 
Hi TIM,
How do I add webradio in moode?
What files should I edit?
What kind of webradio does moode support?

Click on Microphone icon on the left of each station, then select add. AFAIK, you have to put link to file, which is little uncomfortable, when your station publish M3U link. I found the solution to download the M3U link, open in notepad and copy link to mp3 file from it.
 
Hello Tim,

Yesterday I've testet you new Moodeaudio ver 4.0

Automatic building process works great, so after one hour a coyld tried ypu noew 'child'

I luckily tried web radio as well as USB device, but still got the same issue like I had testing your beta version. Can't connect to my both NAS storage( old Shuttle and brand new QNAP).
As a Volumio user I can say that NAS mounting process in Volumio is much easier . And both my NAS works fine - just after one click.

print screens below.
Moodeaudio - Google Photos

br.
Zefiryn
 
I've fixed it and have a working install. The solution to get it working was to pop the microsd card out after the first power down and edited mosbuild.properties so it didn't update the kernel as part of the build.

It is now rock solid. I think there is an issue in the latest kernel which conflicts with something which is turned on when the touchscreen is activated.

I assume it is not affecting everyone as people who installed earlier in the week got an older kernel.

Hi

My Pi Touch working fine with all the kernels up to and including latest 4.9.79

-Tim
 
On a PiB ? even more of a hit on system resources, lol.

Nope, I don't want french-fried salad dressing... just a simple temp cpu % and perspex lid....;)
YouTube

You can get the CPU load and temperature there but it is a lot harder to access.

I would really like the CPU load and temperature readings to come back to the bottom of the audio info page where it used to be in prior versions of Moode.

Hi,

Adding them back delays the display of the Audio Info screen and just having them there suggests that they should for some reason be monitored.

I'm just not seeing any common usage scenarios where its necessary to monitor CPU temp or util. If there are then I can add the code back in.

-Tim
 
When loading the ui on Android in portrait mode, the library doesn't work the same in all browsers.

In Google Chrome it's very messy and I can't even tap on anything - see first screenshot. It looks almost the same in Samsung Internet browser.

But it looks very good in Firefox and I can even click on any item and start playing music - see second screenshot.

Hi,

Your first screen shot is showing the old moOde UI :-0 This suggests stale Browser cache.

-Tim
 
Hi. Not having its own forum is really a problem for moode audio. But the developper (Tim) once said he does not have time to manage a dedicated forum in addition to coding for the software. I don't know what exactly is wrong in your case. I don't have the same problem. But it seems that sometime people end up with a broken image that misses some modules. I would suggest that you build another image and see if you still have the same problem.
Remy

Hi Remy,

If a dedicated Forum for moOde is something that would generally be desirable then I'll see what i can do :)

You folks want a dedicated forum?

-Tim
 
Hi TIM,
thank you for you work.

I have purchased a dac board based on Sabre ES9038.
The dac board is connected to the raspberry PI 3 GPIO (i2S).
I tried various settings (Audiophonics ES9018, Audiophonics ES9028, Generic-1 I2S, Generic-2 I2S, Buffalo, HiFiBerry DAC+) but I always have the same behavior.
If I play files with output rate less than 4,000mbps, playback is perfect.
If I play files with speeds greather than 4,000mbps, playback is affected of glitch or backgroud noise.

can you help me?

What format are the audio files?

I don't understand 4,000mbps rate

-Tim
 
On a more relaxed listening, using headphones, I can tell a background noise when playing 16/44.1 or 16/48 FLAC files. That noise disappears when playing 24/96 or 24/192 FLAC files. I am using an IQaudIO DAC+

Hi,

Are u using MPD Software or Hardware volume?

I've observed what appears to be a 16-bit dither issue in MPD Software volume routine. Fix is to switch to Hardware volume if your DAC supports it or if not then set SoX resampling to 24 bit / * kHz.

-Tim
 
Great, it works! However, when I control playback from Linn Kazoo, I see only few icons of Radio stations there. Not the the complete list from Radio browser in moode. Any idea how to get there all stations?

Hi,

Moode Radio Station feature is not accessible from UPnP.

The only way I know of to add radio stations to the UPnP renderer is to manually edit /etc/upmpdcli-radio.conf

-Tim
 
Hello Tim,

Yesterday I've testet you new Moodeaudio ver 4.0

Automatic building process works great, so after one hour a coyld tried ypu noew 'child'

I luckily tried web radio as well as USB device, but still got the same issue like I had testing your beta version. Can't connect to my both NAS storage( old Shuttle and brand new QNAP).
As a Volumio user I can say that NAS mounting process in Volumio is much easier . And both my NAS works fine - just after one click.

print screens below.
Moodeaudio - Google Photos

br.
Zefiryn

Hi Zefiryn,

I don't quite understand the /mnt/NAS/q4 ... q7 mounts that show up in the screen shot of moode.log

-Tim
 
Hi Remy,

If a dedicated Forum for moOde is something that would generally be desirable then I'll see what i can do :)

You folks want a dedicated forum?

-Tim

My experience with other project-related forums is that entropy comes into play over time as people post willy-nilly to the various subforums. I usually end up reading all the messages in all the subforums, just as I read all the messages on this thread.

That said, having our own forum would allow us to post sticky notes that are easily found or have a "How To" subforum (both moderated perhaps?).

Just my 2-cents worth.

Regards,
Kent
 
well i just did that and nearly become deaf, still dont know if my headphones survived either

@zgtc

Some time ago, I explored some setting or another while wearing headphones and accidentally drove volume to 100 percent. I yanked the headphones off immediately but it took me a week to stop feeling like I was underwater.

Life's lesson #982342340 - don't muck with system settings while using headphones (or with your amp turned up, if using speakers).

Hope you and your headphones, but especially you, survived.

Regards,
Kent

PS - Some may already know this, but I just discovered and Tim confirmed the volume slider that appears when viewing the moOde UI on small-screen devices is not yet hooked to the volume-limit warning code (it's on the ToDo list). Beware of accidentally driving volume to 100 percent.