Sonos connect or DAC?

[nickc]

(14-11-2014 14:56)mccormw Wrote:  

(23-10-2014 18:56)nickc Wrote:  I'd love to buy a NAIM Uniti, but it's way beyond my budget! Thanks for pitching in though. The idea of a Pi is actually growing on me: a fun project and a much cheaper way of achieving the sort of quality I'm aiming for, given my limited budget.

Yup agreed, that is why I am messing with one. But I have yet to find any decent software to make it function as a streamer. Volumio/mpd just about works but it is a bit of fudge and you end up re-scanning all the time. The only reasonable option is to go to folder mode and forget upnp.

Well it's early days so far but I'm pleased with Volumio on the RpiB+. I'm puzzled by your reference to scanning, and wonder if in setting up Volumio you pointed it at your music library. I was confused about this for a while until I discovered Volumio doesn't need a library if it's simply acting as a renderer for MinimServer (and MinimServer is brilliantly fast in scanning). Your setup may be completely different to mine, and I have a relatively small music collection, still with a lot of tagging to sort out, but with the music on an NAS running MinimServer and the Rpi running Volumio attached to my amplifier, I can control it using BubbleUPnP on my (Android) tablet and/or phone and it all works very smoothly. I'm so pleased with it I'm about to buy another RpiB+ to service another living room.