I saw a offer for a small N3350 6GB 64GB Disk Mini PC for 55€ incl. shipping, i thought i give it a try for a small spotify streamer.
Its quite a bit faster then a Raspi 4 using about the same power from the wall and comes complete with powersupply case and all.
Installed Ubuntu on it which worked after some Bios adustments, its probably sensefull to set all power features to power saving as otherwise this lil thing runs quite warm, TLP and else in Ubuntu doesnt hurt, as also removing all uneeded services etc, its not a fast computer.
most of the software installed flawless, it even runs hifiscan and rew directly on it.
took a bit to find a good working EQ for it which is easy to install and use, in the end it was simple, easy effects with pipewire installed from the ubuntu repository did it for me.
CamillaDSP i couldnt get to work properly, user error from my side as its not trivial on X86 it seems.
JamesDSP installed easy but i it wasnt 100% stable, prob could be tweaked out but easy effects runs better on this box.
I needed to make a small script to force pipe wire / easy effects to 44.1khz when spotify delivers the music.
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the script checks if spotify is running and forces the sample rate switch forth and back, there are other ways, config files, but none worked, this did.
Atm am quite happy with the box, its feeding the DAC well, easyeffects is quite capable and intuitive, need to play more with it.
All in all not bad for what you get for the money.
Its quite a bit faster then a Raspi 4 using about the same power from the wall and comes complete with powersupply case and all.
Installed Ubuntu on it which worked after some Bios adustments, its probably sensefull to set all power features to power saving as otherwise this lil thing runs quite warm, TLP and else in Ubuntu doesnt hurt, as also removing all uneeded services etc, its not a fast computer.
most of the software installed flawless, it even runs hifiscan and rew directly on it.
took a bit to find a good working EQ for it which is easy to install and use, in the end it was simple, easy effects with pipewire installed from the ubuntu repository did it for me.
CamillaDSP i couldnt get to work properly, user error from my side as its not trivial on X86 it seems.
JamesDSP installed easy but i it wasnt 100% stable, prob could be tweaked out but easy effects runs better on this box.
I needed to make a small script to force pipe wire / easy effects to 44.1khz when spotify delivers the music.
pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-rate 44100or
pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-rate 48000the script checks if spotify is running and forces the sample rate switch forth and back, there are other ways, config files, but none worked, this did.
Atm am quite happy with the box, its feeding the DAC well, easyeffects is quite capable and intuitive, need to play more with it.
All in all not bad for what you get for the money.
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