I am not very knowledgeable about any sort of computer and am too old now at 73 to learn much more. I have recently bought a Raspberry Pi and the few bits that I need to get it going. I have no problem with getting the NOOBS program to work or the OpenElec XMBC program – I have succeeded in getting FLAC music from both a USB stick and a USB powered exterior HDD to play through my earphones plugged directly into the Pi – but I cannot get the same cooperation from Raspyfi. It goes into the scrolling DOS-like screen with loads of lines of text, lots of green OKs and blue INFOs, then the large 'icon'(?) of the pair of headphones, a few more lines of text and then hangs at 'switching to governor ondemand'. Being interested in hifi my main motivation for buying the Pi was to give RaspyFi a listen .
Can someone advise me what I'm doing wrong and how to proceed, please?
TIA,
Dave.

admin said

Hi David,

So, to control it, just point your browser to
raspyfi.local/
or your raspberry's ip
you'll find the raspyfi Webui which will allow you to configure it and control its playback.
That's it, if you need more help just drop a line here!

Hi admin,
Thanks for your offer and I'm afraid I need to take advantage of it. I have now got to the WebUI and it lists WEBRADIO, ramplay, NAS and USB but when I click or double-click on any of them none of them will open – clocking on 'Browse' has the same, zero, effect. I suspect I am doing something wrong but I cannot think what. I have a USB stick and a external USB hard drive connected into the powered USB hub and I have my display connected by HDMI. I also have the Pi connected into my network using a Cat6 network cable, if any of this is likely to influence the lack of response. I have not yet got it connected to my USB DAC (Amanero) as I thought I would try to take one step at a time but even that cautious approach seems to have confused the Pi and/or me.
BTW, I seem to have filled in my registration page in incorrectly, I much prefer Dave to David – I'm usually in trouble when anyone refers to me as David
TIA,
Dave.

Hi mobey,
Thanks for your input but I'm not sure I have explained my problem accurately' Your reply seems to believe that I can see the music tracks but cannot hear any sound. If so, let me clarify: -
I can see the folders, mainly USB and NAS, but I cannot get them to open and display the tracks on there, no matter how long I wait. Clicking or double clicking on any of the folders displayed gives me a blank screen within the WebUI
FWIW the same set up but using OpenElec XMBC ' sees' the above folders and the tracks within them and also plays them (through earphones – not tried DAC yet).
If your above response still stands please forgive me but I know 'nowt' about how the Pi works.
Thanks again,
Dave .

Hi admin,
"no" to all your questions, sorry
WebRadio is there, as are the other 3 folders, but clicking on any of them leads to a blank page with nothing spinning. Going to 'Database' and then 'Update MPD Database' brings up a little window box advising me that the database is being updated but nothing changes. In short it seems to be seeing the folders but not the FLAC files within them.
Hope my explanation makes sense to you but if not, come back with your questions.
TIA,
Dave

Hi bisc40 and admin,
Thanks for your efforts to help but I'm beginning to return to my theory that I bought a bad 'un. The Pi eventually gets to the headphone icon at the end of the opening page but now pauses for quite a while giving a message "DCHPDiscover on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 'x"' – it repeats this line six or seven times where 'x' is a number varying between 3 and 20, It then reports "No DCHP offers received and then proceeds to the headphone icon as normal but …… the raspyfi.local page cannot be opened and only the ACT and PWR LEDs light up on the Pi. My guess is that the USB crystal isn't oscillating as none of the LEDs on the powered USB light up either. Time to return it to Amazon methinks?
Dave.

Hi Mobey and admin,
Thanks very largely to your help and a decision by the oscillator that tonight it will do what it's supposed to do (and possibly other events of which I'm not aware ) I am now listening to rather nice music through my headphones direct from the Pi. It is surprisingly good to my ears too – I was not sure as to what to expect and I am pleasantly surprised.
Having got this far I'm now going to try to persuade the Pi and my Amanero USB DAC to 'talk' to each other – wish me luck and feel free to offer any advice, nothing is too basic for me and make no assumptions as to what you can take for granted as very little fits into that category as far as my knowledge of audio and/or computers is concerned.
Many thanks,
Dave.

Hi admin,
If you had to guess I'm sure you would have guessed that just plugging in the Amanero and switching everything on just was not going to be that simple and you'd have been right. If you'd be so kind could you walk me through it, basic step by basic step, from listening through headphones directly from the Pi to listening through speakers from the Amanero.
As an example, with the Pi playing through the headphones, plugging the Amanero (already switched on, as are the maps etc.) still leaves the sound through the headphones, unplugging the headphones gives me silence and re-connecting the headphones returns the sound to them. It seems as though either the Amanero is not being recognised, is being recognised but refuses to cooperate, or the sound output is 'locked' onto the headphones.
Nothing is too basic for me to cock up .
FWIW, on Playback the Volume control is locked on 100% (nothing I can do stops it springing back immediately to 100%) which is just a tad too loud to be comfortable.
TIA,
Dave.