#RASPBERRY PI PLEXAMP HOW TO#

I got myself a HiFiBerry DAC2 Pro which does provide pretty good sound quality and made the music streams sound great on my Pioneer HiFi system from 1978. HiFiBerry is a manufacturer specialized in producing Audio extensions for the Raspberry Pi. Fortunately, there is an easy solution to this problem using a HiFiBerry hat. I would even say you can play music with it but it does sound terrible. While the hardware of the Pi is totally capable of handling the music transcoding its line-out connector isn’t really top-notch. If you aren’t convinced that the Raspberry Pi is a good fit to stream high-quality music, you are partly right. We can still use the Pi for something else if we don’t need it as a streaming device anymore. Using a Raspberry Pi for this purpose can cheaper and also more future proof.

Therefore we lock ourselves into the ecosystem of a big company. Pretty much as it was years back with Tapes, Vinyl, CD, or MiniDisc (right what the heck is MiniDisc =). Since the technology decision is nowadays a commitment to a certain manufacturer or streaming provider.

I personally already browsed for a well-suited device but didn’t buy it in the end, cause of the high price or maybe also because I didn’t really know what technology to go for. Surely, one could also just buy a streaming device that supports all the technologies necessary. What if I told you there is an easy way to give your HiFi system an upgrade by reusing that Raspberry pi which is getting dusty somewhere between your other tech gadgets. So many of us still have this old HiFi system, that did cost a fortune back in the time but isn’t used so often anymore since we mostly stream music from Spotify, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Youtube, and other streaming platforms.

#RASPBERRY PI PLEXAMP HOW TO#

This post shows how to use a Raspberry Pi to build an audio receiver supporting Bluetooth streaming, AirPlay, Spotify Connect and, UPnP.

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