Raspberry PI running MinimServer - YES!

[jvilly]

(20-01-2013 13:12)ReneZ Wrote:  Hi, I have managed to get MinimServer running on a Raspberry PI with the great help of GMeddens (Thanks Mate!!), whilst using a USB harddisk as file repository.

Basically the music sits in a directory on a USB harddrive (Hitachi Touro 2Tb - USB3) and is connected to the RB. MinimServer runs on the RB and has as music directory the mounted USB drive.

It's still early days, but it seems to be running OK with wav24 transcoding from 24/192 flac files where top shows a processor load of about 50%, so it seems to be running without too much of a burden on the RB.

Guy has a guide that helped me a lot (!). I had some issues with permissions etc, but trawling the web helped and it works now. How's that for a cheap and easily transportable set-up? Total cost RB and Hitachi is about £110 (dead quiet too!).

Cheers, Rene

Rene, which version of the RPI did you use the A or the B version? Second are there any skips when transcoding 24/192kHz through ethernet? But I guess there will be a delay if you scrub through a music track as the server needs to rebuffer the transcoded file, or when you select a new track?

I am curious as the RPI is a great silent little solution that might just work for me as well as my NAS which makes more noise. Or a separate solution as the RPI could live next to my player and uses my remote NAS to get the music from wthout skips.