Hi folks
I have a slightly flakey from age Mac Mini (2009) that I am using with Puremusic as a music source to a USB DAC. I really don’t need a new dedicated Mac mini computer for this application. I want to try getting away with a RPI4 with Volumio or perhaps some other player software. I would like to add streaming to the mix as well. I currently have Amazon Prime music as a starting point. Is it possible for the RPI to access files from the mini? I have about 1000cd’s ripped in AIFF on a pair of FireWire 800 drives. One drive is for time machine backup. The drives also have a USB interface. I don’t want to start over ripping discs. The overall plan is to have a NAS to serve all our data needs in the house. We need to replace all our old hardware at this point. If we can replace a mini with an RPI then that would help the bottom line a bit.
Thank You
Brian
I have a slightly flakey from age Mac Mini (2009) that I am using with Puremusic as a music source to a USB DAC. I really don’t need a new dedicated Mac mini computer for this application. I want to try getting away with a RPI4 with Volumio or perhaps some other player software. I would like to add streaming to the mix as well. I currently have Amazon Prime music as a starting point. Is it possible for the RPI to access files from the mini? I have about 1000cd’s ripped in AIFF on a pair of FireWire 800 drives. One drive is for time machine backup. The drives also have a USB interface. I don’t want to start over ripping discs. The overall plan is to have a NAS to serve all our data needs in the house. We need to replace all our old hardware at this point. If we can replace a mini with an RPI then that would help the bottom line a bit.
Thank You
Brian
I’ll answer my own question. RPi would not access music on the mac formatted drive. What I ended up doing is taking a spare USB HD and reformatting it using the disk utility in OSX to FAT32 and then copied music files from the mac drive to it. This worked perfectly and Volumio recognized the music library with no issues. Easy fix if you have a spare drive to format and copy to.