On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punky...@punknix.com> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > > >> Punky - How is the testing of the XMOS Development Kit going? It looks >> like that kit is the most economical solution for playing 24 bit @ 192 kHz >> FLAC files. >> >> If you have tested it, how well does it work on ALIX boards? >> > It works very well. My test bed is now repetitively playing music with it > for 28 days without problem: > > root@voyage:~# uptime > 05:19:47 up 28 days, 14:18, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.05, 0.05 > root@voyage:~# cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [X20 ]: USB-Audio - XMOS USB Audio 2.0 > XMOS XMOS USB Audio 2.0 at usb-0000:00:0f.5-1, high > speed > root@voyage:~# ps -lef|grep mpd > 1 S mpd 2822 1 7 80 0 - 18160 schedu Nov22 ? 2-00:54:34 > /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf > > One drawback is that you can't use another USB port for external storage of > music files.
Punky, Why not use mini-PCI SATA card with SATA to eSATA cable? The MPD database updates would probably be a lot faster was well. _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
