Hello everyone !
I’m a satisfied user of Volumio for about a year. I set up Volumio on an old (2008 !) netbook powered by an Intel Atom cpu. I did have quite a few things to tweak at first but now it works. I used to have the entire music library on the internal hard drive but I decided to put it on a NAS recently.
There is one thing that annoys me a little bit : the computer is not really responsive. Sometimes the entire interface lags a little bit, be it because of the slow harddrive or the network access to files (flac for example) so I was wondering if using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ would work better ?
I have read some benchmarks here and there but could not get an answer so I’m asking here. Does anyone has ever tried switching form an old netbook to a Rpi3 and noticed improved performance ? My music library is quite big (20 000+ songs) so performance is a little bit of a concern to me.
Thanks for your help !
Ed
I haven’t switched from an old notebook but I’m pretty sure you’ll see an improvement in performance. Presuming the pi will be used just for your music then that’s its sole job, your notebook would have hundreds of processes running.
I have 3TB if music attached via usb and see little or no lag with display nor calling up the music.
Plus footprint is smaller, neater and silent.
Thanks Anglepen for your answer !
Actually my netbook is running volumio at full time thanks to a x86 image of the OS so there is no other process taking some CPU or memory from the computer but you are right, it is a little bit noisy (fans…). The reason I asked about the capacity of the Rasberry to handle my music collection is that I thought a RPI had less computing power than a x86 computer. But if your RPi can handle à 3To music collection, I guess there is enough computing power ! My music collection is much less important : only 200 Gb and 21000 songs.
My goal then is to get a RPi 3b+ and the official touchscreen to make a small but nice device on top of my HiFi setup.