RPI - All lights off

I just thought it would be nice to share with you

how to get a lighthouse tower like the RPI to pretend being dead.

Unfortunately even the most current RPI operating systems 

doesn't offer such a trivial and nice tweak via user interface. 

That leaves us only one option: Commandline intervention!

 

CD - RIP

(Latest Update: Oct-2020)

Anybody out there still ripping CDs? Or is it just me. ;)




Recently I figured that some tracks were missing. No idea when and why this happened. OK. Quick decision taken. Re-Rip the affected CDs. Yep - I still keep my CDs in the attic.

Gee Wiz... Re-Ripping a track "quickly" turned out into a major exercise (nightmare).

This article gives some background info and directions related to CD ripping and CD tagging.

networking - RPI dongle your net

I'd like to share an - IMO - nice alternative network setup solution for the RPI3 (It'll also work on the Pi Zero).

The solution will nicely add to, or you might also call it  - enhance -, earlier described networking solution.  

networking - my audio data highway

Years back I mentioned that the network and associated components do have quite an impact on your audio performance. 
Meanwhile this became common knowledge in - let's call it - audiophile minded circles. 

As usual, I prefer reasonably (priced) highest performance solutions. 
Usually a healthy mix of DIY efforts and commercial stuff gets me there. 

Today I'd like to introduce my "currently" preferred "audio" streaming network solution.

Raspberry PI - I2S-HATs @ 384k

Today I'd like to share how to introduce 352k8/384k upsampling 
by running LogitechMediaServer as server and squeezelite as a client.

This post, from a hardware perspective,  pretty much relates to my 
RPI I2S HAT DAC projects I've been running over at DIY-Audio.

Some DACs (TI PCM51xx family) have shown a slightly improved performance 
while running upsampled material. That's the main reason for writing all this up. 

Linux USB Audio - Trouble Shooting

(Latest update: Mar-6-2022)

USB audio interfaces are pretty much commodity products nowadays. Usually these are plug'n play

on whatever rather recent system.

In the early days people were facing a lot of hiccups with USB audio. This situation has greatly improved over the last 10 years though.

However. From time to time you still see discussions popping up about this or that issue related to USB-audio. 

The silent death...

(Latest Update: Jun/2020)

Does it make U feel uneasy ( once in a while ) of not being in control of something? 

Have you ever experienced that such an uneasy feeling grows on you with time?

OR... 

RU the type of person who takes it easy  -  "What I don't know, I don't care to know..." ?  

Whatever type of person you're considering yourself to be, I'd suggest to spend 10 minutes to find out what the heck this guy is talking about.