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Building an open embedded audio applicance.

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#801
miero said:
Today, I've received a gift from a Premier Farnell's manager I never heard about. He sent me a brand new element14 BeagleBone Black, as a replacement for a board I've damaged lately and he included also handwritten message with compliments. Thanks a very much!

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I use too Farnell quite much, and I`m very happy with their services.

Now just playing Sherlock Holmes in a OT post: I just wonder how the Farnell manager you never heard about before, knew already who you really are, where is your address, and knowing that you do this very appreciated job for the community here, and you Miero (a Farnell customer or not) needed a new BBB...
Far from me to be tendentious, but I just found all about this the same interesting as the project itself... 🙂
 
#805
#813
Russ White said:
Miero and I are deciding on a couple of details around power sequencing and clock selection (where to use I/Os rather that passive activation) The board is really done except for these small details.
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Many thanks Russ & Miero for your excellent works/contribution to diy community! :worship:

The whole community is in waiting, hopefully isn't much longer... 😛😉

Thanks again Gents!
Chanh
 
#815
How should I rip my CD collection for this? I have not used lossless formats to date and was completely happy with my CD player.

I don't care about space, only sound quality. I do want to be able to have the metadata for each track so it's easy to manage but if it sacrifices quality I can compromise.
 
#816
sbelyo said:
How should I rip my CD collection for this? I have not used lossless formats to date and was completely happy with my CD player.

I don't care about space, only sound quality. I do want to be able to have the metadata for each track so it's easy to manage but if it sacrifices quality I can compromise.
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You could use Download Exact Audio Copy and rip it as a flac file or if your apple mad as an Apple Lossless file. metedata's a given
 
#817
sbelyo: It should be possible to connect portable CD/DVD drive via USB and play CDs without ripping.

Variants for connection the USB device:
- (obvious) connected directly
- (advanced transport) connected indirectly via secondary BBB and stream data to the primary BBB via Ethernet -- this could result in even higher sound quality

The CD would be "ripped" each time when you play it.
 
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#818
sbelyo,
I have tried EAC recommended by DQ and found it less than satisfactory. It did work, but tended to 'go off in the weeds' ripping and re-ripping sectors on too many occasions. After reading a number of recommendations, I tried dB PowerAmp and found the modest investment well worth it. The user interface is odd but once you figure it out, it's just fine -- and most of the oddity of the interface is only for settings that require occasional access. Most ripping was done on my trusty older Plextor CDR drive. I also have an ASUS DVD burner. Occasionally there would be a disc that gave the Plextor fits, but would rip just fine with the ASUS. I also had a Samsung, but it worked more poorly than the other two at CD ripping and was relegated to another computer in the house.

I'd rip files to a lossless format -- FLAC is my choice. Once everything is ripped with acceptable metadata to FLAC, you can always transcode to any other format or reconstruct the original uncompressed CD bits.

If you're going to networked/computer-based playback I see no reason to continue to try to play discs via a player; just rip once and be done.
 
#819
sbelyo said:
How should I rip my CD collection for this?
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I suggest lossless wav. That's how I've been building up my digital collection for the last few years.

FLAC provides a modest filesize saving, but the playback computer must then do some processing to decompress the FLAC. Arguments can rage endlessly about whether this is significant and/or audible, but as hard drives get larger and larger over time, my attitude is that I don't care about the arguments - I will just go with wav.

The downside of using wav is that there's no official tag specification, but of all the unofficial tag methods, there's now a de facto standard, at least on audiophile forums - ID3v2.3 as implemented by the Tag&Rename application -
Mp3 tag editor Tag&Rename - edit tag in mp3, wma, mp4 files, automatic discogs and freedb import
This application costs US$30, and IMO it's worth it.
Most major media player applications will recognise these wav tags. Any which don't, quite frankly, should be avoided.
MPD and foobar2000 definitely read these tags.

Beware - I've read that JRiver reads these tags just fine, but JRiver actually writes wav tags in a slightly different manner.
Bottom line; for a standardised approach - use Tag&Rename.

I have an older version of Tag&Rename, and I just read now that the latest version can read/write tags of dsf (DSD) files. This is great. I must investigate.
 
#820
sbelyo said:
How should I rip my CD collection for this? I have not used lossless formats to date and was completely happy with my CD player.

I don't care about space, only sound quality. I do want to be able to have the metadata for each track so it's easy to manage but if it sacrifices quality I can compromise.
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Probably not the best place for this topic, however, there's some useful information on the Computer Audiophile site that should point you in the right direction;

Computer Audiophile - Computer Audiophile CD Ripping Strategy and Methodology

Computer Audiophile - In What Format Should I Rip My Music?

Ray
 
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