An external USB DVD is always possible as provided by the customer for use with programs like Exact Audio Copy. This system is for folks that do not need a built-in DVD drive for ripping CD collections. “The latest HAL Music Server the MS-6 design is complete and running Windows 10 Home 64bit OS. The HAL MS-6 music server is “open the box, plug it up, and your playing music in a few miniutes”.įrom his thread at AudioCircle Introducing the HAL MS-6 Music Server/Streamer () I settled on PiCore because getting Qobuz access was not difficult and did not require additional software or a fee other than the Qobuz subscription. The software for the Pi has matured and is simpler to configure but still, there is no concise “how-to”, and it still is a challenge for the timid. I revisited the Pi as a server and found what I think is a better software package and discovered things have changed quite a bit. ![]() When I purchased my Innous Zenith last year, which took more time to unpack than it took to get the music flowing, I moved my little Pi server to the living room with a couple of Vanatoo active speakers for background music. I persevered and got a server up and running. The learning curve was steep and fraught with one disaster after another. This is the route I took a couple of years ago when I wanted to get off a computer running JRiver. If you Google “Raspberry Pi as a music server” you will get pages and pages of online videos and white papers at least as high as halfway up Mt. If you are computer savvy and do not mind challenges that will send you screaming into the wild, one of the best bets is the Raspberry Pi. If you are curious and want to take the plunge without dropping a few mortgage payments there are some alternatives. A quick look on the net and a complete package that works with minimal setup out of the box is priced around $2k and I feel you hit the area of diminishing returns around $6k with the uber bunch going out to $30k and beyond. How the manufacturer lessens and isolates the noisy environment from the data signal is where the quality of the final sound comes from. Computers by their very nature are inherently noisy. The quality/price of the server is due to a couple of areas. ![]() This is what separated the men from the boys. ![]() If you ever hooked up your system to the headphone outputs of a laptop you will quickly hear the problem. A music server is a computer attached to the network and has software to serve up your music files to either an internal DAC or an external DAC via USB. And depending on your sound system this might be all you need. It can be as simple as a laptop connected to the network for your music files on a USB drive or a NAS (Network Attached Storage), USB out to your DAC and your system. Or you may only be interested in streaming from Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon Music, etc. How you serve up your files depends on personal tastes and the size of your library. When I want to seriously listen, I sit down to my LPs and turntable. I can select a playlist and let the music flow uninterrupted for hours. I listen to digital music while I am working.
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