So I have come very late to the party , I love all music and music media , my main system is my 90’s hifi separates system including Radio, MD player, CD player ,Turntable, Cassette deck and Amplifier. But whilst I love physical media and playing albums as they were intended I also embrace technology and ripped all my CD’s to a hard drive many years ago I have been looking unsuccessfully for a way to integrate this into my HIFI (for those times you just want to play something without thumbing through CD etc) , without spending a lot of money.
I tried Plexamp but it wasn’t exactly what I was after so by chance last week I came across Volumio. Being a fairly ‘early adopter’ of tech I had a Rasp 400 sitting unused so i installed Volumio , attached my powered USB external hard drive , connected an RCA to HDMI converter and plugged it all into my Amplifier. I have repurposed an Apple Ipad 3 as a display to s whats playing , although I have mostly been controlling via my mobile.
So whilst its no where near as fancy as some of the home built systems I have seen on here (well done all) it currently doing exactly what I wanted - Think I will add a DAC soon.
So I wanted to register here basically to say thanks and well done on a great product and useful resource.
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Hello @rwilts and welcome!
Do not hesitate to ask and share here.
Hello and welcome!
I am just up the road from you in Newport.
I have sent you a PM:
Steve