Brand:MSI
Model: MSI MS-163C (VR601) Laptop(Pentium Dualcore)
Booting From: HDD
Sound Card: Creative x-fi usb 5.1(Optical out → DAC) and My DAC’s USB input (PCM2704)
Volumio 2.916
I’m using Volumio 2.916, running verry well. Specially Creative x-fi USB’s sound is good.
I tried Volumio 3.179. When I’im using My Dac’s USB input sound is same with 2.916. but When using Creative x-fi usb 5.1, the sound is worse than before.
Another Question,
I keep my media files on my computer’s hard drive(INTERNAL). Can I install the new version without deleting these files? (Booting from HDD)
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Wow, great, thank you. It worked like a charm. One tip to others attempting this, they’ll have to allow the device to boot from a memory stick in the bios. It’s disabled by default. This is on top of the boot order.
It works great with the internal sound card. Using a Usb Hidisz 9 dac it has occasional drops. I’m wondering if it’s due to power not being adequate or something with volumio. The same dac works flawlessly with volumio 2.9 on an old 32bit laptop.
Not when the unit has been reset to factory defaults, that is what I would advice anyway.
Just finished setting up 10 of them following the procedure above, works perfectly.
Try another usb cable, usb port or a powered usb hub, that may help. Hidizs seems to be picky on usb3.0 ports, just google a little (e.g. audio science review). I tested with 3 different USB audio DACs, none of them gave any issue, playing upto DSD128.
I have searched a lot for this and have tried several ways, but nothing worked. The most recent tips were from 2018 and for v2. The official guide mention a mac once and then only for running from the USB. I want to install on the hard drive, having the laptop as a standalone Volumio server.
I have linux laptops, created the bootable USB. Volumio runs from the USB, but that is not what I want.
I tried the Oracle Virtual Box but that uses a Windows machine to build stuff.
Any information on how to do this with v3 and using only Ubuntu machines would be highly appreciated.
Volumio is an OS not an application .
If you download the x86 version, boot from USB, run the setup, you can navigate to: System settings and there is an option at the bottom to put it on a HDD/SSD.
Be aware it will overwrite your disk.
I noticed that some of the onboard wireless chips/ drivers with the x86 platform will do hotspot but can’t scan for wireless networks in parallel.
So in some cases the hotspot will be active but you will not be able to connect to a wireless network. This is ok with notebooks, or for pc’s with monitor/ keyboard connected, because you can switch off the hotspot, wait a few seconds and the pick from the freshly scanned list.
However it is a nuisance when you have a headless setup.
I am using latest volumio x86 3.251 on my Intel NUC 11gen machine (model name is nuc11tnki5). NUC Specs Link
It works best on my NUC except one thing, Onboard ethernet controller which is “Intel® Ethernet Controller i225-LM”
I couldn’t make it to work with volumio, so I am using external USB Ethernet Adapter now.
If you could support to volumio work with Intel NUC 11gen machines with ethernet support, It would be very helpful for all NUC users.
Thanks.
Hi, I am posting this along another reply for Intel NUC 11gen.
When I used 2.5gb ethernet adapter by replacing gigabit ethernet, I felt that audio quality much improved.
It could be the the reason for this that 2.5gb controllers handling common mode noise better than gigabit ethernet controllers. Please google it if you curious about common mode noise and how could it affect audio qualify.
Anyway I bought an 10gb ethernet adapter using aQuantia AQtion NIC. (AQC107)
But I couldn’t make it to work with volumio.
If you provide support for that ethernet controller, I could test the audio quality with 10gb ethernet adapter.
Thanks.
Tinker S installed the latest official version 3.251 on the board… In the settings I do not see how to set I2S or select a DAC. How to do it? In the Audio selection menu - HDMI, HDMI, SPDIF, CONNECTOR.
Volumio3 X86 GUI not responding on assigned IP (VERSION: 3.251).
Once boot ends up, I try to reach volumio gui from any another devices on showed IP at login without success.
NOTE that everything is ok following the same steps using raspberry pi (same version) instead of X86.
Current configuration: boot from internal HDD; nothing changes booting from USB.
I tried with both ethernet cable connected and wi-fi on and with ethernet only or wi-fi only: the only way to reach configuration wizard is via hotspot (tried static IP or using DHCP) but at the end no way to reach the gui on the desired IP leaving hotspot (timeout, server unreachable). Ping correctly responding on assigned Volumio IP (via ethernet and via wi-fi) from any devices and viceversa (so no network connection issue).
I’d like to share output file from lspci and inxi -Fxxxz command uploading them but got message: “Sorry, new users can not upload attachments.”.
So I paste them below:
lspci-output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 04)
01:00.1 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5288 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
Intel Broadwell.
I have trouble making audio over HDMI work.
In Settings → playback options → output device there are two option, “HDA Intel HDMI” and “Analog Out”.
I want HDMI audio playback, so I select the first option, but no sound comes out.
Your HDMI sound interface is called “HDA Intel HDMI”, which is missing from the list of card profiles (so far nobody asked for it).
This will need a patch in the Volumio backend.
Meanwhile, if you know how to use an editor in a terminal session,
modify “/volumio/app/plugins/audio_interface/alsa_controller/cards.json”
copy the line with “Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio”
in the copied line, replace “Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio” by “HDA Intel HDMI”
