Ifi Zen Stream power supply

[SubseaStu]

Good evening everyone. My first post here after finding your forum after a Google search. I'm hoping someone can shead some light on the below for me please.

Basically I'm wanting to alter my home headphone set up from a chord mojo dac, allo digione signature with shanti linear power supply to an ifi stream and chord mojo dac. I would like to keep using the shanti supply for the ifi if possible but as it puts out only 5v / 3a from one of its supplies I'm unsure if this will work.

I'm changing it due to cancelling Roon and now using Symfonium for my flac albums on my nuc and Audials for radio from my android phone. No matter what I do I can't get the apps to see the digione signature to cast to regardless of the software I install on the digione. I've no idea about code etc so think upnp is too complicated for me. I've also tried the digione on ethernet and WiFi with no joy.

Thanks

 

[staticV3]

Hi @SubseaStu! Welcome to ASR.

The Zen Stream is powered by 9-15V DC, so a 5V supply won't work.

No worries though: even if the Shanti Linear supply had the right voltage, it wouldn't do anything that the stock supply can't.

Of course, iFi will happily sell you their own aftermarket power supply with the right supply voltage, which also won't do anything. Perfect for applying weight reduction to your wallet.

 

[SubseaStu]

Hi @staticV3 and thank you for the super quick response. You've essentially confirmed my (worst) thoughts. I was hoping to use the shanti as its a pretty niche item to try to sell on.

 

[linuxfan]

I'm changing it due to cancelling Roon and now using Symfonium for my flac albums on my nuc and Audials for radio from my android phone. No matter what I do I can't get the apps to see the digione signature to cast to regardless of the software I install on the digione.

You should probably have asked for assistance on the ALLO forum -
https://audiophilestyle.com/profile/32849-allosupport/
but OK, I will walk you through a basic analysis: you want to use Symfonium and Audials Play.
Symfonium supports output to DLNA, and Google Cast.
Audials Play supports output to Google Cast, and AirPlay.

Of the different operating systems offered by ALLO for the Digione Player (DietPi, Moode, Volumio, Max2Play) none of these offer Google Cast receiving.
But DietPi can be configured as DLNA renderer (for Symfonium) and also AirPlay renderer (for Audials Play).
So if your smartphone is iOS, not Android, I think DietPi on the Digione Player would be a solution.

 

[linuxfan]

Oops sorry, just noticed your phone is Android.
OK, Volumio might be a good solution for your Digione Player; no, you won't be able to use Symfonium and Audials Play, but the Volumio app will take over the roles of both of those apps (FLAC from local network / internet radio). And from what I've seen, the Volumio user interface is quite good.

 

[SubseaStu]

Oops sorry, just noticed your phone is Android.
OK, Volumio might be a good solution for your Digione Player; no, you won't be able to use Symfonium and Audials Play, but the Volumio app will take over the roles of both of those apps (FLAC from local network / internet radio). And from what I've seen, the Volumio user interface is quite good.

Hi, sorry for the late reply. I've been thinking about this more over the last few days and came to a similar answer, rather than spend more money I'll just have use a different app. But thank you for clarifying things and the volumino tip

 

[linuxfan]

... my flac albums on my nuc ...

I'm guessing this means your NUC is set up as a network share. Out of curiosity I just booted up Volumio on my Raspberry Pi (I normally run piCorePlayer) and I see that Volumio does a reasonably good job of setting up access to network shares as a music source - in the Volumio menu go to -
Sources > Network Drives "+Add New Drive"
this will initiate a scan for network drives ... which in my case failed to detect my Windows share, with this message "No Network Drives Found"
but it's a simple task to fill in the parameters manually:
Alias - call your NUC network share whatever you like - I called mine "Windows10"
NAS IP Address - use the computer's IP address only if it has a fixed IP address, otherwise fill in this field with the computer's hostname - find this in Windows by going to -
Settings > System > About "Device name"
Path - the name of the shared folder, but you can also add sub-folder path, if your music files are located further down the directory path.
File Share Type - cifs (Windows network protocol is SMB/CIFS)
Username - can be any valid username on the Windows installation, but that user must already have access to the music folder.
Password - Windows password of the chosen user
Options - (none necessary)
"Save"
If no error message, you will now see the full network path displayed, and in the "My Music" section at the top of the webpage there will now be values listed for Artists/Albums/Tracks.