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Nah, just malware.
Yeah balena etcher worked great and the instructions on the volumio website were excellent. I got it all set up but haven't been able to get any sound from the pi running volumio or to get the pi running volumio to play files off the hard drive. May be a power problem, do people here use a powered USB hub to run their hard drive with rpi? May be a formatting problem, I'm new to setting up a hard drive from scratch, I'll try a different drive, reformatting this drive and getting a powered hub, though I'd rather not add another power source into the mix, this is getting kinda clumsy. Also when setting up volumio the only option for output was hdmi, this seemed wrong to me, I was planning on going from the pi's USB to my smsl Sanskrit input, but so far no sound that way even with volumio radio so somethings wrong, pi recognizes the songs on the drive but cannot play them properly, again no sound.
Can anyone on here who runs a pi from a hard drive to a dac to a stereo tell me how they are set up including cables, connectors and which specific ports they are using from the pi. So far aside from the fan problem it seams like a mini pc run headless would be a much more functional way to go, and would offer all the benefits of being able to access the web and using different apps.
Assuming I figure everything out I'd like to post a walkthrough explaining specifically everything that you need to do to setup the pi as a server. The answers I've gotten here are already more helpful than anything I've found so far online. I've looked at the above posted thread and others , certainly alot of good information but too many different ideas and irrelevant information for someone that doesn't already know what they are doing and no way for someone who doesn't already know to be able to tell what will work and what won't aside from trying it out, and there is just too much to try. Something as simple as not knowing what cable you need for output can mean the difference between setup taking an hour or a week.
Thanks alot for any help you all can give, and I appreciate you getting me started down the right track.
Yeah balena etcher worked great and the instructions on the volumio website were excellent. I got it all set up but haven't been able to get any sound from the pi running volumio or to get the pi running volumio to play files off the hard drive. May be a power problem, do people here use a powered USB hub to run their hard drive with rpi? May be a formatting problem, I'm new to setting up a hard drive from scratch, I'll try a different drive, reformatting this drive and getting a powered hub, though I'd rather not add another power source into the mix, this is getting kinda clumsy. Also when setting up volumio the only option for output was hdmi, this seemed wrong to me, I was planning on going from the pi's USB to my smsl Sanskrit input, but so far no sound that way even with volumio radio so somethings wrong, pi recognizes the songs on the drive but cannot play them properly, again no sound.
Can anyone on here who runs a pi from a hard drive to a dac to a stereo tell me how they are set up including cables, connectors and which specific ports they are using from the pi. So far aside from the fan problem it seams like a mini pc run headless would be a much more functional way to go, and would offer all the benefits of being able to access the web and using different apps.
Assuming I figure everything out I'd like to post a walkthrough explaining specifically everything that you need to do to setup the pi as a server. The answers I've gotten here are already more helpful than anything I've found so far online. I've looked at the above posted thread and others , certainly alot of good information but too many different ideas and irrelevant information for someone that doesn't already know what they are doing and no way for someone who doesn't already know to be able to tell what will work and what won't aside from trying it out, and there is just too much to try. Something as simple as not knowing what cable you need for output can mean the difference between setup taking an hour or a week.
Thanks alot for any help you all can give, and I appreciate you getting me started down the right track.