Rasptouch Pi

[manniraj]

A new kickstarter campaign has been launched for a player based on the Pi. Looks very interesting and a all-in-one solution with a Rasptouch screen on a CNC machined chassis.

Rasptouch – The ultimate Open Source Player

 

[rikhav]

Interesting but not cheap
Even if we make a cabinet and attach dac card , add a lpsu and it won't be so expensive
Good option for a ready product though

 

[manniraj]

Yes I agree, but the chassis alone looks great for Euro 89 + shipping. Additional costs of Pi $40 and official 7" touchscreen from Rasp another $78 and a good LPS will end up on the costlier side I think.

 

[rikhav]

Does the most costliest version include a lpsu?

If yes, then it's really good

My major complaint with raspberry is shared bus for usb and Ethernet
That means I can't take files from nas and play via USB to dac. Even if it does not stutter there is bound to be some jiiter unless we have some player which can load the whole track to RAM and then play
I know raspberry is build to a cost but the shared bus restricta its use as a serious streamer

 

[Appys]

It seems way over priced to me, esp if this is the price for a mass produced model

 

[sam9s]

unless we have some player which can load the whole track to RAM and then play

Jriver does that daphile does that as well. Moode does not AFAIK ...

 

[rikhav]

Jriver does that daphile does that as well. Moode does not AFAIK ...

That's what Sam
All famous arm distros don't and that's the biggest handicap for raspberry pi

By the way jriver has also released a special linux version which supports arm cpu boards I.e. raspberry pi

Maybe one of these days will try it. But the thing is I am so impressed by the new daphile (which supports upsampling with custom noise shaping and ram disk) that I don't feel like trying any other software

 

[regeHA]

My major complaint with raspberry is shared bus for usb and Ethernet
That means I can't take files from nas and play via USB to dac. Even if it does not stutter there is bound to be some jiiter unless we have some player which can load the whole track to RAM and then play
I know raspberry is build to a cost but the shared bus restricta its use as a serious streamer

Have you actually ever tested this? Takes all of 5 mins to setup Samba and a NAS on the Pi.

I've even streamed over 1 GB video files on the network.... to tablets, smartphones, and even Windows PC running PotPlayer and madVR.

Never had any stuttering, dropped frames, or jitter.

The only folks I know who keep parroting this shared BUS issue with the Pi are the folks at CA. You really cannot go by them. That's a crazy lot and filled with sellers, sponsors, etc. For them it has to be DSD only, upsampling player like HQP, expensive streamers like Auralic or Aurender, LPS only for power, and the only music worth listening to is western classical, etc. Don't start drinking that Kool-Aid my friend and take everything shared at CA with a pinch of salt.

Even folks using Kodi on the Pi will tell you it never stutters or hangs... the shared BUS is not an issue.

 

[rikhav]

Have you actually ever tested this? Takes all of 5 mins to setup Samba and a NAS on the Pi.

I've even streamed over 1 GB video files on the network.... to tablets, smartphones, and even Windows PC running PotPlayer and madVR.

Never had any stuttering, dropped frames, or jitter.

The only folks I know who keep parroting this shared BUS issue with the Pi are the folks at CA. You really cannot go by them. That's a crazy lot and filled with sellers, sponsors, etc. For them it has to be DSD only, upsampling player like HQP, expensive streamers like Auralic or Aurender, LPS only for power, and the only music worth listening to is western classical, etc. Don't start drinking that Kool-Aid my friend and take everything shared at CA with a pinch of salt.

Even folks using Kodi on the Pi will tell you it never stutters or hangs... the shared BUS is not an issue.

Hi regeha
Even if I believed in what CA members say, I don't have the moolah to take their advise seriosuly

I think I need to do 2 things
Get a 300 mbps capable wifi adapter and WiFi router to work with raspberry

I may have over exaggerated the shared bus issue, but I personally have not tried samba for long as whenever I try to stream data wirelessly to my raspberry pi, it shutters badly
In my case the biggest issue is my wifi router is just 56 Mbps

 

[sam9s]

By the way jriver has also released a special linux version which supports arm cpu boards I.e. raspberry pi

wow thats good news, googling it as I type here will checkout

 

[Appys]

@Sam do tell me post your trials if its still better sounding than moode I will also take the plunge