Should i try volumio again?

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Hi guys.

I once had a volumio setup, on a raspberry pi and an hifiberry with digital outputs. This was connected to a yamaha amp with decent dac’s and the sound was superb. The sound source back then was all on a 2.5" disc, full of flac’s which i ripped from my cd collection.

I was thinking of going the volumio route again, but this time i want to stream from spotify, in the most lossless way possible (bluetooth or via wifi somehow).

Is this possible with a free account, of would i need to pay for a volumio premium account? I dont want to pay a subscription for enabling a feature on hardware that i own.

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For Spotify you just need a free account to install the Spotify plugin.
You can play Spotify native within Volumio or use connect.

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Nice, then i have a new hobby project.

I still have the original hardware i installed this on the last time. It is a raspberry pi model B. Is it still sufficient for spotify streaming, or should i upgrade to 4 or 5? It ran volumio smoothly the last time i used it, but that was over 10 years ago.

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if you only are using Spotify a rPi3 will do.
a rPi4 or 5 will run smoother, but not mandatory.

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I think ill buy a new pi4 then, and hope and pray that the hifiberry i have is still compatible.

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go for the 2 or 4 GB.
Hifiberry is still compatible.

But try first with the rPI3, if you like it, but the rPi4.

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Its actually not an rpi3 i currently have, its a raspberry 1 model b

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in priciple it might still run, but veeeeeryyyyyy sloooooooow.
I don’t think the DAC is compatibel, as the rPi1 model B has 26 pins instead of 40 (unless it’s a modelB +). If i recall correctly.

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damn it, 26 pins indeed

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Ok, i am going to shell out the money for new raspberry and spdif hat. A raspberry 5 with 4Gb doesnt cost much more than a rpi 5 with 4Gb. Is there any reason not to buy the 5? (compatibility?)

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No there is no reason to avoid it. i guess the 2nd rPi5 (in your reply) should have been the rPi4 :rofl:

On thing to consider, you also need a DAC-Hat or USB DAC. For the latter Topping has some great ones (D10s) arround 100 Euro.

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Wont be using dac. Want to feed digital signal into marantz 6007 which has decent dac.

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Euh, the PM6007 has Analog, OPT and Coax as input. How are you going to transfer the audio from the rPi to the PM6007.
You need a HAT, like the Hifiberry Digi+

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Didnt i mention that i want to use a hifiberry hat in my first post? Are you confusing dac with hat? There are hifiberry hats with dacs, but also without a dac, and just 2 digital outputs.

So for the sake of clarity, yes, i want to use rpi + hat with digital outputs into amp with dac.

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you mentioned it for the rPi1, which doesn’t fit on a rPi5.
So I guess my crystal ball is cloudy, as you didn’t mention to get a new DAC (or HAT) board for the rPi5.

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Ok, i am going to shell out the money for new raspberry and spdif hat.

:innocent:

I am actually still going back and forth between buying a Wiim product and going this route …

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I can’t help you in this choice.
Guess I don’t need to tell what my choosing will be. (Starts with a V and ends with olumio) :rofl:

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We are on a volumio forum, not much guessing involved :wink: