Streaming Amazon Music in HD

[Ray P]

I had a look at Daphile today - I installed it on a low power Intel NUC and hooked it up to my NAS music library, which was all pretty simple.

I've just connected it to the RTZ DAC (which has a JLSounds USB module - no problem connecting!) and it does a nice job of playing DSD recordings . It stutters when I try to resample PCM to DSD (at DSD64), which I was half-expecting as the processor is a really lighweight Intel Atom. That said, Daphile is doing a full scan of the library so I'll try again when its finished doing it stuff.

Daphile is a free Linux-based derivative of Squeezebox-server an squeezelite.

[simon]

I've been in communication with Lyuben for a while and he's been helpful confirming I've set it up okay. (What all the stuff in the manual about config with different dacs is about I've no idea, it just confuses things.)

It's odd why the NUC isn't fully playing with the I2Sover USB board. I'm wondering if I might need a full rebuild of the NUC, which I really don't want to do.

[Ray P]

It's odd why the NUC isn't fully playing with the I2Sover USB board. I'm wondering if I might need a full rebuild of the NUC, which I really don't want to do.

You can boot Daphile from an iso image on a USB memory stick without changing your Win10 install on the NUC - it would be very quick and eay to do that and see if your JLSounds board works with it.

[simon]

Good point Ray, something for me to think about.

I do wonder if there's something crucial missing in the cut-down Windows install on the NUC, assuming it is cut-down of course.

[Ray P]

Have you cracked it yet Simon?

[simon]

I've been messing with other things Ray. I've got a workaround with my phone at the moment but will get back to this when I've had a play with the op amp gain stage for the MoFo.