Feedback on Tinker Board @ 2.387

Volumio Development Bug reports
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Hi,

I replaced my rpi3 with a Tinker Board to finally banish the occasional (but annoying) pops and clicks that come from having a USB DAC.

Volumio install on the Tinker was an absolute piece of the proverbial cake, UI is definitely snappier when navigating about and I had music playing within a few minutes of booting up.

It sounds better than the rpi3. The Tinker Board must be feeding those zeroes/ones a little nicer into the DAC than the rpi3 could manage, bearing in mind I play music in from a USB thumbstick and out through a USB DAC.

So, super happy until…

I tried playing a few mp3’s but they all came out interspersed with white noise.
I tried FLACs which were 88k and the same happened, music but with white noise intermixed.
Basically anything other than 16b/44k FLACs would have this extra distortion thrown in for good measure.

I switched Audio Resampling on and set the Target Bit/Sample to 16/44.1, Quality to Very High and bingo, they all play nicely.

If I set the Resampling to any other bit rate or sample rate it re-introduces the white noise to all formats, except the FLACs which are already encoded @ 16b/44k.

I’m not sure if it could be my DAC, or an issue with the Tinker Board build (some kernel level nonsense perhaps?), but I didn’t get this issue on the rpi3 at all.

Overall the switch to the Tinker Board has been totally worth it, the system sings beautifully. Just as long as it’s @ 44.1k :smiley:

Volumio 2.387
Asus Tinker Board
HRT Music Streamer II+
iPurifier2

Thanks for Volumio@MichelAngelo

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There have been reports of “white noise” for 24 bit tracks on the RPi (thought to be a problem with the current RPi kernel), which can be avoided by resampling to 32 bits. I haven’t seen it reported for any other devices, until yours. Not a help, but something that is being looked into.

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Yeah, no problem - just wanted to give some feedback for the Tinker platform, because I couldn’t find much info before I took the plunge and bought one…!

I’ll wait for the next build and see how it fares, but I can’t complain with what I have! :slight_smile: