What if any, Raspberrypi players are people using with Minimserver

[mightyoakbob]

Title says it all.
To use with Minimserver, what Pi based players are worth a look?

Thanks.

Bob.

[Steveh100]

Good question

[stefano_mbp]

Ropieee is a very good one and very easy to setup
Just flash the RoPieee image on a microSD card (chose the right image for your rpi), enable usb output in the UPNP/DLNA service (in Services tab), connect a dac to usb and you’re ready to play music using a control app like Bubbleupnp on Android or MConnect Player on Android/iOS on your smartphone/tablet

[mminga]

IMHO, it is a perfect player you could do it better than the most other, because you can adjust your player with your needs.
You can adapt minimserver to your needs.

I use it on in two RPI and on one tinkerboard systems:
Player is gmrender-resurrect:
https://github.com/hzeller/gmrender-resu...INSTALL.md
You can adapt the player to your needs, e.g. replay gain:
https://github.com/hzeller/gmrender-resurrect/issues/37
https://github.com/hzeller/gmrender-resu...issues/268

You can use very good DAC for small money compared to other solutions.

Convolution is also possible, either by MinimStreamer or in your player (I did it not yet):
https://github.com/hzeller/gmrender-resu...issues/275

The only thing, you need time and be familiar with Linux and technic.

[mightyoakbob]

(24-08-2024 12:00)mminga Wrote:  IMHO, it is a perfect player you could do it better than the most other, because you can adjust your player with your needs.
You can adapt minimserver to your needs.

I use it on in two RPI and on one tinkerboard systems:
Player is gmrender-resurrect:
https://github.com/hzeller/gmrender-resu...INSTALL.md
You can adapt the player to your needs, e.g. replay gain:
https://github.com/hzeller/gmrender-resurrect/issues/37
https://github.com/hzeller/gmrender-resu...issues/268

You can use very good DAC for small money compared to other solutions.

Convolution is also possible, either by MinimStreamer or in your player (I did it not yet):
https://github.com/hzeller/gmrender-resu...issues/275

The only thing, you need time and be familiar with Linux and technic.

Wow, that looks awsome but very complecated. I'm not confident I can understand that enough to get it going. Thanks very much for pointing it out, I'll have an in depth look at that a bit later.

Thanks.

Bob.

[mightyoakbob]

(24-08-2024 10:51)stefano_mbp Wrote:  Ropieee is a very good one and very easy to setup
Just flash the RoPieee image on a microSD card (chose the right image for your rpi), enable usb output in the UPNP/DLNA service (in Services tab), connect a dac to usb and you’re ready to play music using a control app like Bubbleupnp on Android or MConnect Player on Android/iOS on your smartphone/tablet

I gave this a shot this afternoon and had it working in less than half an hour. The big surprise for me with this is that it supports Open Home protocols. Just tucked away half hidden a nice little switch and it turns into a Linn player or very nearly.

More than I could even hope for, shocked I am.

The only snag I find is that it will play all the radio streams I have urls for except the BBC, it will not play any of those HLS streams. Ironic that I forced to pay for those.

Thanks ever so much, given me a lot to play with. Brilliant.

Thanks

Bob.

[mightyoakbob]

(24-08-2024 21:00)mightyoakbob Wrote:  The only snag I find is that it will play all the radio streams I have urls for except the BBC, it will not play any of those HLS streams. Ironic that I forced to pay for those.

After trying everything I can think of and every BBC stream I can find, it's not going well. I've asked on the Roon/RoPieee forum but no help there either. It looks like it is not possible to listen to BBC radio at any quality level on RoPieee.

I can't help but think that if the BBC's revenue depended on audience figures they would not be using hard to use streams but of course it doesn't.

Both ironic and disappointing.

Bob.

[stefano_mbp]

It’s not RoPieee … BBC changed a lot of things (it discriminates between UK based and outside UK … ) and it’s very hard to find something working with it … before their changes I was able to play all BBC stations …

[simoncn]

How have you been listening to BBC radio streams on other players?

[mightyoakbob]

(25-08-2024 18:47)simoncn Wrote:  How have you been listening to BBC radio streams on other players?

Looks like I've got to confess.

The pi based player I've been using for years is based on mpd plus Pete Manchester's mediaplayer which adds OpenHome features.
https://github.com/PeteManchester/MediaPlayer

It turns out that the mpd system is far more tolerant of incorrect syntax and information in the m3u playlist links to radio stations.

I noticed quite quickly that if [;mp3] was missing, it would play on the mpd system but not on the RoPieee system but those were easy to fix.

Last night I found that the BBC streams problems mwere the same.
I had [;mp4a] in the brackets for the HLS streams. No idea where I got that from but it worked with the mpd system.

Then looking at exaples last night I thought I should just try [;aac]. It worked.

#EXTINF:-1, [;aac] BBC Radio 3 320K Stereo
http://as-hls-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool...ewind.m3u8

So just a foolish mistake on my part.

Thanks.

Bob.