According to this website, there are already compiled, working versions of Volumio supporting SACD Iso playback.
Not owning a Baidu account myself, i haven’t been able to download and try them.
If anyone has a Baidu account or is fluent enough in Chinese to contact the blog owner and ask him if he could upload a copy on Mega or other websites, please be my guest.
Latest version seems to be volumio-2.457-2018-09-17-sacd-q2m-pi.rar
I believe it is using manisiutkin’s mpd fork.
As expected, it plays SACD Isos just fine.
I think DSD playback maybe buggy. Feel free to check and confirm.
It’s in Chinese, you’ll have to change preferences to your prefered language (unless you read Chinese of course).
As i understand it, updating Volumio to the latest version may make you lose Iso playback functionality (by reverting to the defaut packages).
When installing plugins, it points to Chinese mirrors. You may have to alter some config files to optimize it.
I will not leave this link active forever, so i suggest you upload it to google drive or the likes if you wish to share it.
We don’t use the MPD patches for DSD because we found the resulting binary very unstable. I am not suggesting this binary is per se, just sharing my experience.
Another point of consideration: I would be very cautious to install modified ISOs without knowing exactly who made them and what’s inside…
Actually, ISO support is available on Volumio, but I’ve hidden it since it was quite unstable.
If that’s interesting for the community I can enable it, with all the “warnings” needed.
If it is something that can be switched on and off at the first sight of trouble, like those options of the ‘dev’ sections, then yes, i think it would definitely make a lot of people happy ! ^^
As long as everyone understands that this is an experimental feature.
Thanks for working on this, and yes, if it’s buggy better wait, but it would be great as an experimental function to be turned off/on. Very interested.
