Runeaudio still broken :-( Volumio 1.55 still works - sorry.

piercer

Hi,

A while ago I tried to use Runeaudio but found that both bonjour and airplay did not work on it.

The Raspberry Pi cannot be found by bonjour and airplay is really bad with incredible electronic distortion.

I switched to volumio and it worked perfectly out of the box.

Recently I got a Raspberry Pi 2 and thought I would try the Runeaudio image for it.

Amazingly it still won't work for me with exactly the same problems.

So with Raspberry Pi A, Raspberry Pi 2, Chord Hugo DAC and Chord 2Qute DAC Runeaudio is essentially usueless, but volumio works out the box.

Can anybody help getting runaudio working for me?

hondagx35

Hi piercer,

The Raspberry Pi cannot be found by bonjour

With the RP2 image this should work out of the box.
The url is http://runeaudio (Windows) or http://runeaudio.local (OSX / Linux / Android).

and airplay is really bad with incredible electronic distortion.

Please read this.
For me it solved the problems with the distorted sound on airplay.

Frank

J@r0d

I have test your link and this is no functionnaly, the sound is distorded before and after modification

Aquarius

Bonjour and Airplay are "sound system" protocols. Designed to get you to stream music and downmixing everything to a fixed sampling rate, lowering the sound quality in the process.
While it's probably nice to have those around, I beleive the stated goal of RuneAudio is hifi. This means bit perfect as far as possible. So I understand if those "lesser" means of use are not as polished as the rest of the system. (yes, having both work well would be even better

)

hondagx35

Hi,

Bonjour and Airplay are "sound system" protocols.

Bonjour has nothing to do with sound.
Bonjour locates devices such as printers, other computers, and the services that those devices offer on a local network using multicast Domain Name System (mDNS) service records.

For me this works perfect on all RuneAudio platforms:

+   eth0 IPv4 E3CA3693F4EB@RuneAudio                        AirTunes Remote Audio local
+   eth0 IPv4 RuneAudio                                     Music Player Daemon  local
+   eth0 IPv4 RUNEAUDIO                                     Microsoft Windows Network local
+   eth0 IPv4 runeaudio                                     SSH-Fernzugriff      local
+   eth0 IPv4 runeaudio                                     SFTP File Transfer   local

and downmixing everything to a fixed sampling rate

In case of Airplay / Shairport this sampling rate is cd quality (16-Bit/44.1 kHz),
so it's not that bad and better than most streaming services.

With the above mentioned changes sound is perfect with Hifiberry+ and also with a cheap USB-DAC it is acceptable.

If there are users with problems, so please report and do not forget to provide us all possible debug infos you have available.
- debug info via pastebin
- hardware (RP, RP2, Cubietruck ......)
- DAC (I2S, USB, brand)
- streaming source (iPhone, Windows PC with Allstream, .....)
- updates installed?

Frank

Aquarius

Thanks for the clarification, Frank!
Downmixing is supposed to be bad, whatever the rate, but I see your point.

Cheers!

J@r0d

hondagx35 wrote
If there are users with problems, so please report and do not forget to provide us all possible debug infos you have available.
- debug info via pastebin
- hardware (RP, RP2, Cubietruck ......)
- DAC (I2S, USB, brand)
- streaming source (iPhone, Windows PC with Allstream, .....)
- updates installed?

Frank

#10498

- hardware (RP, RP2, Cubietruck ......)>>>> RP and RP2
- DAC (I2S, USB, brand)>>>> I not use DAC I use interface USB>>>>SPDIF and insert spdif in DCX2496: Ok with Hibiberry digi , not ok with musical fidelity chip Xmos, not ok with AK4399, not ok with Crative EMU0404
- streaming source (iPhone, Windows PC with Allstream, .....) Streaming with Ipad ios 8, ipad IOS 7.2.1, iphone IOS8.2
- updates installed? not for the first test ( sound is distorded) yes 0.4 for the second test ( sound is distroded)

When i use hifibbery digi i never problem, i have copy/paste repertory ALSA off volumio in runeaudio and same problem, i use same version of shairport of volumio and same problem, i tested all kernel present in distrib runeaudio and same problem

Da Alchemist

I think it is a bad Idea to copy Files from "Raspbian/Volumio to ARCH/RuneAudio, instead try the following:

Log into your pi and Install:

sudo pacman -S alsa-firmware

If this does not help, check the Settings in your alsamixer. Perhaps there is something, that causes clipping.

Regards

J@r0d

Da Alchemist wroteILog into your pi and Install:

sudo pacman -S alsa-firmware

I have tested and i have same problem