Daphile - Audiophile Music Server & Player OS

[troystg]

I gave my unit to an older audiophile friend. He absolutely loves it. It really sounds great and is so easy to use!

The old unit had a Xonar sound card and connected via toslink optical. Going into a Bryston SP-3 so any interface(XLR, RCA, Optical, USB) is available.

I would like to make another for myself, what is the suggested latest HW recommended? I didn't see any of the fan less micro PC's with an optical option.

 

[August]

I think any NUC/mini PC would do, although if you like to use upsampling to high sample rate DSD or use other DSP things like REW that might require a somewhat better processor. I have an older Intel I5 which is running at a low clockspeed chugging along very easily. It was an older mini-PC but serves this purpose very well and was a steal when I bought it secondhand. If you compare any reasonable modern NUC it is easily much more powerful than a RPI.

 

[rif]

I've used Qotom devices. They are tiny, fanless, and run at room temp. But I'm running a low power cpu.

If you order directly from them, you can customize which case you want, processor, and other items.

 

[troystg]

Thank you both for the reply, but how are you connecting them to the stereo? Again, I had a sound card with optical out to the Bryston, these don't appear to have an optical out. Does Daphile recognize the USB as an audio out? I certainly don't want to use the headphone out.

 

[rif]

I use usb, no problem for daphile.

 

[bhjazz]

Does Daphile recognize the USB as an audio out? I certainly don't want to use the headphone out.

If you are sending the audio to a compatible DAC, then yes.

 

[canvas]

Is there anyone able to convert DSD to 384Khz PCM in Daphile? I usually convert everything to 192Khz/24, but it seems the 384Khz option will produce some background noise on SACD source. PCM up-conversion is fine, but DSD-to-384Khz will have problem. Switch back to 192Khz, the faint noise went away. Any idea? BTW, the conversion is set at server side.

 

[Tarasque]

I'm using the LKS DAC with Singxster via USB and that is working VERY well. Have no issues using 384K/24 or DSD.

 

[merlin el mago]

Could I use Dirac Live room correction with Daphile?

 

[troystg]

I was looking for an adapter in the closet and I came across my wife's old Chromebook. Dell Chromebook 13-7310 which has 8gig of RAM and an i5 CPU.. SDmicro slot for storage. Could I build a Daphile server with that?

EDIT: 8 gigs of ram, not 16..

 

[canvas]

I'm using the LKS DAC with Singxster via USB and that is working VERY well. Have no issues using 384K/24 or DSD.

Did you turn ok DSD-to-PCM conversion? Your DAC may support DoP or DSD direct.

 

[Boxi80]

Dear all, I have a problem with my installation of Daphile on a Zotac miniPC, reading files from my QNAP NAS.
I'm using it since years, but I have the problem that sometimes it does not recognise the drives and I have to manually push on the "Retry" button, or restart the PC. It's only happening sometimes, not always, and it's driving me crazy!
Any suggestion? Drive is connected as CIFS

 

[AudioS]

Hi,
Is there any way to make Tidal connect available in Daphile?
Since Tidal plugin is there and working good, why Tidal connect isn't supported for using Daphile from native Tidal apps?

 

[troystg]

In the FAQ, question 11 asks about a wireless hotspot but I haven't seen anything in the installation documentation about setting up a stand alone system. Would ANYONE have any information about that?

 

[Robbodan]

Thanks, I've put a request in

I did some digging on the musicbrainz integration, it looks like gracenote (and freedb) use a discID calculated from the cd details to provide a strong one to one match, this isn't a mandatory field on musicbrainz so its likely CDs that daphile can't find are in musicbrainz however there isn't a direct match

I tried ripping this album in daphile last night and no match, yet is in musicbrainz - with no discID populated and 3 options for the 16 track album it can't return the tags

https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/bbf0d104-5965-44bf-81d2-d163612086a2
my specific version is the UK one (no discID)

https://musicbrainz.org/release/500a8d75-36c3-4a94-9845-ca464b1d85a2
I suspect @DRONE7 if you have a look in music brainz for some of the CDs you couldn't get the tags for in daphile they will be present in musicbrainz

Hi all,
Sorry for quoting this pretty old thread. Just wanted to ask if anyone know if the latest versions of Daphile made any progress on the metadata/tagging question? I'm still on a pretty old version and thought I just ask before trying, e.g if there is any point of upgrading.

 

[michelf]

The Daphile CD ripping works most of the time, but if the online recognition failed, you could now edit directly the metadata manually,
Personally, I add the artist name and album and use Mp3Tag to complete the metadata.

 

[SRMcGee]

michelf:

How do you access the metadata through Daphile?

Regards,
Scott

 

[michelf]

Here's some screen grab.
The editor is available in the CD Ripping section

 

[KeLLoGsX]

Hey,
I've been using Daphile for many years now and it has always worked perfectly. I updated to the latest firmware a couple of weeks ago and also started to use Spotify connect instead of Spotty app (in iPeng). Now... everytime i have used the server one day, the next day it wont play. It says it's playing but it's not, and I can't stop the music (although it's not really playing) it just restarts the song but still no audio. Everytime I have to restart the server and then it works again. I'm using the server on a headless pc so it's hard to follow what might be happening. I thought it might have to do with Spotify so I disabled the option but to no avail. Really annoying, anyone know why this happens.
//KeLLoGsX

 

[Sangram]

You shouldn't upgrade Daphile unless you really need one of the newer features. I thankfully have a bunch of older versions that I need to go back to, lesson learnt, run with the oldest possible version that your hardware supports. Upgrading isn't worth it, and if you do you're on your own.