What do members of diyAudio use as music players?

[edbarx]

It is interesting to know what members of this forum use as music players.

I use a Raspberry Pi with a monitor and keyboard. The music is played through an IQAudIO card. I should think there are better options than this and sharing such knowledge should be beneficial to all forum members.

 

[A Jedi]

Audirvana on Mac streaming to RasPi with Pi2AES hat and off to external DAC.

 

[haiqu]

Oppo UDP-203 and local network streaming.

 

[bobbyprajan]

Allo Boss 2 with moode audio

 

[PRR]

LG Premier™ Pro LTE​

$39 if you pick refurb and get lucky.
Altho my ancient iPod is really a better jukebox, it lacks other frills.

 

[MarcelvdG]

Raspberry Pi running Volumio and a home-made DAC, Marantz TT4000 turntable, Pioneer DV-575A-K CD/SACD/DVD-Audio and -Video player, Sony ST-SB920 tuner, I don't remember the model number of the cassette recorder.

 

[ColinA123]

Windows media player into Marantz NA6005 music server.
It works well enough for me!

 

[Juhazi]

Music player? Hard or soft or both? Obviously "digital" sources? Network or/and locally saved files?

Hard - desktop PC/HDD and laptop pc/SSD onboard dac or USB to outboard dac, mobile phones, DAPs, Yamaha AVR, Yamaha WXD-50
Soft - Tidal, Spotify, Youtube, Amazon HD, Foobar2000, Yamaha Music Cast etc.

I prefer "HD" formats, but compressed+normalized goes for casual car and at-work listening. FM radio and Tidal most of the time.

 

[Johno]

My music players are Cassette tape deck (awful I admit), VHS deck, Record Player (MM tweaked to have differential outputs into a diff pre-amp) , CD/DVD and the TV sound plays thru my stereo too.

 

[Bas Horneman]

Raspberry Pi with HifyBerry Digi Pro -> I2s -> DDDAC1794. Picoreplayer is the OS (lms client) So my server is LMS with flacs. And I have spotify connected through that.

 

[edbarx]

I would like to get hold of a reliable music/audio player which supports various digital formats. My Raspberry Pi setup is not satisfactory. It needs a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and other similar music players need another device like a cell phone or another computer. I would like to have a standalone player with a screen and keyboard built in. The Raspberry Pi is becoming combersome as modern monitors are too big for such a purpose. A 10 inch screen is enough, but I found only 24 inch monitors.

 

[Bas Horneman]

My raspberry pi is inside the dac. No keyboard, mouse or screen. Almost all os's have apps to control them.

 

[Bas Horneman]

But ofcourse...if you want a screen and keyboard built in...I have no experience with that.

 

[gpauk]

Cocktail X10 with re-written software, Wiim mini, P30 pro phone!

 

[Kay Pirinha]

Yamaha NP-S2000, Yamaha CD-S300, Panasonic DMP-UB900, VideoLAN VLC media player.

Best regards!

 

[soundchaser]

When playing “files” an Oppo 103 with attached SSD (USB). I use the cell phone app.
From there SPDIF out to my pre-amp.

 

[chip_mk]

Volumio running on Raspberry Pi B with HifyBerry Digi+ connected via SPDIF to a Chinese DAC module. A local disk drive with audio files connected through USB to RaspPi. Almost 10 years.

 

[kodabmx]

Audacious on Manjaro
TOSlink out to DEQ2496 and into the tube chain.

 

[von Ah]

I have used Logitech Media Server (LMS) and a turntable for nearly 20 years for my music listening. For the last several, I’ve had LMS running on a Raspberry Pi using piCorePlayer as the OS. The playback includes a mix of Logitech (formerly Slim Devices) Squeezebox players and a few other piCorePlayer RPi’s just running as Squeezelite player clients. All the players are synced perfectly. Control of the playback and clients is done from any device on the network. For a while I had the turntable piping into LMS through an ADC, but have gone back to direct all analog for vinyl listening isolated to my main stereo system. This setup has been exceptionally reliable and stable. piCorePlayer is great. https://www.picoreplayer.org/

 

[stellavox]

Cocktail X12