Barrelhouse Solly
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I like to try different Raspberry Pi audio software. I'm retired and it keeps me off the street. Recently I've been playing with rAudio. I just got a Pi 4B from a local store at list price. The drought is ending. I couldn't help myself even though I have what some people would call a fleet of Pis.
The Pi is the 4 GB model. rAudio is a fork of Rune. It's an MPD front end like Volumio and Moode. Unlike Moode and Volumio I haven't been able to get rAudio to work. When the MPD database builds it fails with an "output buffer overflow." You can tweak the buffer size in the config. Default is 8K. At 64K the MPD build completes normally but after a few minutes of use MPD crashes repeatedly and eventually won't restart. Since this is strictly fooling around I won't be heart broken if there's no fix. I have stable Moode and LMS installations. Moode runs flawlessly on this Pi. I've also tried rAudio on a Pi 3A+ with similar results so I'm pretty sure it's not a defective hardware problem. My music library has about 90 K files. I've used Moode, Volumio. LMS, and vanilla MPD with my library with no problems. I'm using the current version of rAudio, 20230828 and have tried the two previous versions as well.
If anyone has had success with rAudio I'd like to hear about it. Years of IT experience has led me to believe that I'm far from infallible with hardware and software.
The Pi is the 4 GB model. rAudio is a fork of Rune. It's an MPD front end like Volumio and Moode. Unlike Moode and Volumio I haven't been able to get rAudio to work. When the MPD database builds it fails with an "output buffer overflow." You can tweak the buffer size in the config. Default is 8K. At 64K the MPD build completes normally but after a few minutes of use MPD crashes repeatedly and eventually won't restart. Since this is strictly fooling around I won't be heart broken if there's no fix. I have stable Moode and LMS installations. Moode runs flawlessly on this Pi. I've also tried rAudio on a Pi 3A+ with similar results so I'm pretty sure it's not a defective hardware problem. My music library has about 90 K files. I've used Moode, Volumio. LMS, and vanilla MPD with my library with no problems. I'm using the current version of rAudio, 20230828 and have tried the two previous versions as well.
If anyone has had success with rAudio I'd like to hear about it. Years of IT experience has led me to believe that I'm far from infallible with hardware and software.