yes, pretty sure. the artefacts are bearely audible (win foobar) and I don't hear them in my system. I still have the modded PS3 and iso's. 😉
In the end I started Daphile from USB on my Win7_foobar music laptop..
Works better than any distribution on toy computer like RPi..
Works better than any distribution on toy computer like RPi..
For me it's faster and easier to mantain, sounds good, and works flawlessly with this DAC.
Definitely worth a try.
Rapberry Pi has distorsion playing 24bit 48/96/192kHz PCM and DSD files, more or less with any distribution which I try.. don't have support for cue image files, settings are complicated and unstable..
Using built-in audio output, or external DAC?
OK, cue files are a pretty rare thing these days, why do you want to use them?
What settings do you find complicated and unstable?
How do you think the computer can cause "distortion" in an external DAC? By changing the data somehow?
I have heard arguments about jitter and noise, but distortion...
As to the cue files, do you have the hundreds of cue files just because that's how you ripped them originally? Would it make sense to batch convert them to individual FLAC files?
I have heard arguments about jitter and noise, but distortion...
As to the cue files, do you have the hundreds of cue files just because that's how you ripped them originally? Would it make sense to batch convert them to individual FLAC files?
Pops and clicks are distorsion too, and I have lot of them with RPi.. with foobar or Daphile they are gone..
Much more it makes sense to use player that plays them..
OK, I was assuming the formal use of distortion to mean non-linearity (harmonic and intermodulation distortion). All I can say is that it is pretty easy to configure a RPI to work without glitches too.
Sure - it is just that cue files might have made sense back in the days when players didn't do gapless properly, but there is no real reason to use them these days.
How?!
Of course, it's easier to delete hundreds of albums, and to lose days of re-ripping .. and that just because someone does not know how to add support for cue..
I am running RPI with squeezeplug at default settings - and have no dropouts.
You are assuming "someone" doesn't know how to do it - instead of realizing that it doesn't make sense to support every obscure, obsolete format.
From what I understand, it is easy to make it use LMS 7.9 that supports DSD - haven't tried it myself, as I don't have any need for DSD. It might have been a good format for archiving analog master tapes in the 90's, but considering all studio processing is done in PCM these days, I see no need to convert the stuff to DSD.
Personally, I don't know anyone who uses it, and as I wrote, there might have been a reason to use it 5 years ago, but these days there is absolutely no need to.
I said that RPi have distorsion when playing hires and DSD files.. first you tell me that the is no dropouts with squeezeplug, after that you say that you don't even try..
And I pointed out that you don't have distortion, but dropouts.
I have no dropouts with PCM hi-res files - don't see why there should be with DSD either. All the RPI does is shift bits, it doesn't care if they are DSD, PCM or whatever.
I will try it later.. every distribution that I try on RPi is based on MPD, maybe that is problem..
Maybe, yes. Squeezeplug is based on the squeezeplayer/squeezeserver architecture. The RPI is great as a player, but a bit overworked as a server.