moOde audio player for Raspberry Pi

[Tim Curtis]

Thanks Tim. Coming back to using Moode again now that it is on bookworm. Great os. Setup on a usb boot disk was a breeze!!!

I do have a question on radio streaming. Many radio station has a “HD” logo and specifically I thought naimradio advertised on its website being “cd quality” but streaming with moode shows its AAC320k.

Is it something to do with the radio stations or perhaps there is a setting within moode on resolution?

Cheers

Yes, the 320K AAC Naim streams are used in moode because they include injected metadata (Artist, Track Title, etc) that we can display in the WebUI. The FLAC streams from Naim don't contain injected metadata. It's prolly only provided in an App they want u use. Something like that.

In any case I think the URL's below are the playable FLAC streams.
http://129.146.133.23:9000/naim_classical
http://129.146.133.23:9000/naim_jazz
http://129.146.133.23:9000/naim_radio

 

[Tim Curtis]

Hi,

FYI - A new company named RABAS Technologies https://rabas.in/ was formed by a former Allo employee and has started manufacturing and selling the very nice Allo product line including the Kali Reclocker which is expected to be in stock sometime in December 2024. There are also some new products in the pipeline according to the company.

-Tim

 

[Falco]

Hi,

FYI - A new company named RABAS Technologies https://rabas.in/ was formed by a former Allo employee and has started manufacturing and selling the very nice Allo product line including the Kali Reclocker which is expected to be in stock sometime in December 2024. There are also some new products in the pipeline according to the company.

-Tim

Thanks for the heads-up Tim. Unfortunately I get a notification that a connection cannot be established. Is that the same for any of you?

 

[Tim Curtis]

The link works ok at my end.

 

[Falco]

Weird, i get this notification in Firefox but the link works in Chrome.

Still quite some items sold out i see, like it was on allo.com

 

[dlovesmusic]

@Tim Curtis
I know moode includes minidlna as an option. I wonder if I can simply install minimserver in the background and use that instead?

 

[Tim Curtis]

@Tim Curtis
I know moode includes minidlna as an option. I wonder if I can simply install minimserver in the background and use that instead?

I don't know but give it a try and post back the results.

 

[dlovesmusic]

I don't know but give it a try and post back the results.

I suppose I need to know the media directory location is for my external hdd in Moode.

Is there a way to find out?

 

[Tim Curtis]

Weird, i get this notification in Firefox but the link works in Chrome.

Still quite some items sold out i see, like it was on allo.com

That is odd.

An email from RABAS mentioned that initially Boss DAC, MiniBoss, DigiOne and DigiOne Signature would be available followed by Kali in December and some others including new products down the road.

I'd say just hang back and hope for their success because having more choice in this product space benefits everyone.

 

[dlovesmusic]

Does anyone know if moode support usb cdrom connected to the rpi4?

 

[Falco]

That is odd.

An email from RABAS mentioned that initially Boss DAC, MiniBoss, DigiOne and DigiOne Signature would be available followed by Kali in December and some others including new products down the road.

I'd say just hang back and hope for their success because having more choice in this product space benefits everyone.

Yes, I'll revisit their site every now and then. Would be interested in either a Boss2 or maybe the USBridge Signature Player from them.

Installing moOde should be feasible on both of them I believe?

 

[Nutul]

Does anyone know if moode support usb cdrom connected to the rpi4?

It can be done... it may be slow at initializing tha CD, but nevertheless it can be done - with a trick.
Search the forum for moodecdplayer, long story short: it is about a script that creates a play queue of all the tracks in the CD (and no, no metadata / album art fancy...)

 

[dlovesmusic]

It can be done... it may be slow at initializing tha CD, but nevertheless it can be done - with a trick.
Search the forum for moodecdplayer, long story short: it is about a script that creates a play queue of all the tracks in the CD (and no, no metadata / album art fancy...)

Thanks I wonder if this is it, which seem like a third party add on that has not been updated after version 1?

GitHub - TheOldPresbyope/moOdeCDPlay: add a CD playback function to the moOde music player

add a CD playback function to the moOde music player - TheOldPresbyope/moOdeCDPlay

github.com

 

[EJ3]

Maybe you could try Daphile?

Daphile – Digital Music Convenience for Audiophiles

Daphile is an audiophile class music server & player OS – targeted to dedicated headless PC. It manages the bitperfect and gapless playback of common audio formats including the high resolution files.

www.daphile.com

Daphile – Digital Music Convenience for Audiophiles​

Daphile is an audiophile class music server & player OS – targeted to dedicated headless PC. It manages the bitperfect and gapless playback of common audio formats including the high resolution files.

www.daphile.com
Ahmmm? What is a headless PC?

 

[Falco]

Daphile – Digital Music Convenience for Audiophiles​

Daphile is an audiophile class music server & player OS – targeted to dedicated headless PC. It manages the bitperfect and gapless playback of common audio formats including the high resolution files.

www.daphile.com
Ahmmm? What is a headless PC?

A headless pc is a pc without monitor and other peripherals. You operate remotely like a server. A music server in the case of daphile.

 

[somebodyelse]

Daphile – Digital Music Convenience for Audiophiles​

Daphile is an audiophile class music server & player OS – targeted to dedicated headless PC. It manages the bitperfect and gapless playback of common audio formats including the high resolution files.

www.daphile.com
Ahmmm? What is a headless PC?

As @Falco said - think of something like the Innuos streamer/servers. Note that it doesn't have to be headless - if you have a monitor etc. connected then it can use that for control too. It just shows the same web interface in a fullscreen browser. I haven't tried it with a touchscreen, but it would probably work.

 

[EJ3]

A headless pc is a pc without monitor and other peripherals. You operate remotely like a server. A music server in the case of daphile.

Thank You very much!

 

[EJ3]

As @Falco said - think of something like the Innuos streamer/servers. Note that it doesn't have to be headless - if you have a monitor etc. connected then it can use that for control too. It just shows the same web interface in a fullscreen browser. I haven't tried it with a touchscreen, but it would probably work.

Yes, thank you also (and for the additional information)!

 

[Falco]

Daphile is targeted at regular PC's (x86) whereas moOde is targeted at raspberry pi's (arm based).
Personally I prefer raspberry pi based as they are generally smaller and consume much less power.
But regular PC can be nice as well as you can for instance use thin clients and have music storage inside. These tiny computers like a nuc or from Dell, Lenovo or HP are very suitable and energy efficient as well.

 

[somebodyelse]

piCorePlayer with the LMS option is broadly equivalent to daphile if you prefer a Pi.
Thin clients can be good, but need a bit of research on what internal storage they support, plus any quirks they may have (like refusing to boot without a keyboard if your BIOS is the wrong version, or production variants with the same model name). https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml has a lot of info. See this post for a bit about the Wyse R90L for example.