TheLastMan wrote: > Yes, I had looked at the NUC, and other similar mini-computers - but > dismissed them mainly thanks to Steen and his brilliant (and free!) > piCorePlayer Linux distro for Squeezebox. > > I have just built a complete Squeezebox "Player" from a Raspberry Pi > based on this for £60 ($90) including case, SD card, wi-fi dongle, power > supply and audio cables. One major advantage of this setup is that > piCorePlayer is pre-configured to get audio out of a Raspberry Pi - and > nothing else. This means that it took about 10 minutes to build and 10 > minutes to set up. An absolute doddle. If I want to make it "hi-fi" > there are now supported I2S DACs and digital out cards (to supply an > external DAC) that can be attached for another $50 or so. You can also > go down the slightly more fiddly route of a USB DAC but support for that > is rather more hit and miss. > > Once you have it running, it is quite possible to adopt the "if it ain't > broke don't fix it" maxim and just leave it to play the music. I find > that if I don't fiddle with stuff that I rarely need to "troubleshoot". > > Remember a NUC does not come with memory, storage or an operating > system. I am assuming you are not au-faix with setting up your own > Linux installations and will therefore need to buy a copy of Windows. > That, of course, will need a sizeable hard drive for the OS > (piCorePlayer fits on a single 1GB SD card!). I reckon, with Windows, > you will not get much change from $400. Of course the resulting > computer will be capable of very much more than piCorePlayer on a RPi. > You could use it as an LMS server and/or the hub of a complete media > center if you wanted, so it really does depend on what you need it for. > > With the other options made available at the moment, a NUC is complete > over-kill for a simple player. If, like me, you just need a couple more > "headless" players like the Receiver then the RPi running piCorePlayer > is just the job.
All very good points! I was thinking I could get into a NUC (incl memory, small SSD, Linux etc.) for under $250. But, as you stated, it borders on overkill. I am still very much interested in a Hifiberry + SPDIF card + proper case + piCorePlayer, however I am in the US, so I couldn't find any easy/cheap way to get all three shipped to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SamS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881
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