So stay tuned, hope I’ll get it released in a week!

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1- Download latest RaspyFI release here

2- Unpack it with WINRar

3. Write the unpacked SD Image to your SD via Win32diskImager

Select the .img file you previously unpacked and make sure “device” field points to your SD card, then click on Write

4- Connect your Fat32 usb memory or hard disk (must be self-powered) with your music to the Pi.

5. Connect your USB Dac (the Pi has enough power output to feed it, don’t worry) to the Pi

6- Power up your Pi

7- From your browser type http://raspyfi/ to access the WEBUI

Configure it and you’re ready to go. If your music sits on USB Drive, just plug it and you’ll listen to them immediatly. If you need to configure a NAS, just go to settings -> Database

Alternatively you can  Get and install your favourite Remote Client

Windows\Mac\Linux

Gmpc . Nice and easy client, it offers several functionalities, few hanging issues, but it is my favourite

Ario. Lot of options, poor gui. It has Internet Radio enabled out of the Box

Android

Mpdroid, fantastic app. Available free from PlayStore

IOs

Mpod, for iphone\ipod touch. Free on Ios Market.

Mpad, for Ipad.

10-Enjoy!!!

SSH

User: pi

Password: raspberry

If you wish to use your RaspyFi’s powered Pi via W-Fi check the WI-FI Configuration Guide

6- Done!

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-512 mb model b support (but 256 models should work as well)
-based on latest raspbian image (2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian)
-XMOS Native support (Hiface 2 is reported to be working)
-less space used and less processes active (shrinked to minimum requirements to get mpd running)
-fits on 2gb sd carD
-fat32 disk ready out of the boX
-volume can be set from client (Erik, this is for you!!)
-usb tweakings
-general quality improvements
-hdmi & analog audio disabled (no bcm2835 kernel module loaded at boot)
-mpd has higher priority set

known issues:
-resampling always enabled to 44100 htrz

SSH

User: pi
password: raspberry

Download RaspyFi RC1

UPDATE YOUR DATABASE FOR FIRST USE!

It Works out of the box with most of USB Dacs! (supported natively by linux) It works also with XMOS Transports (Hiface 2 is reported to be working!)

This is no more based on moebius linux, it is instead based on latest raspbian (updated at 12\1\13). It is definetely sounding better and it features some under the hood tweaking that proved to be effective. It is ready out of the box to play your library from a FAT32 usb stick or self powered hard disk. (IF you need ntfs support you should mount it and then edit /etc/mpd.conf).
You can also play your music from a Nas, you should have a samba share called nas and edit /etc/fstab and change the ip with you’r nas ip:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

//192.168.1.YOURIPHERE/nas /mnt/nas cifs username=pi,password= 0 0

reboot and edit /etc/mpd.conf , removing the comment from nas and commenting Music

music_directory “/mnt/nas”
#music_directory “/media/Music”

(Quality-wise, the nas option is strongly suggested)

To enjoy the best quality your RaspyFi powered Pi can give you please use a quality psu, I found out that Xperia phones chargers are pretty well made and stable, if you have an Ipod\Ipad\Iphone charger this could be good as well!

And you’re ready to go! I’m already working on a Real Time version of RaspyFi, stay tuned!

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First update:

apt-get update
apt-get updgrade

Y, then Y again

When updating process is over:

reboot

Let’s disable Ipv6, that Raspberry Pi

Just add this line at the end of l file /etc/hosts

::1 localhost.localdomain localhost

Now we can install mpd

apt-get install mpd

Y

On the Pi it usually gives some error messages, we can safely ignore them.

reboot

Le’ts create our playlist folder:

mkdir -p ~/.mpd/playlists

Now let’s edit our mpd.conf file:

nano /etc/mpd.conf
And modify the string:

bind_to_address “localhost”

in

bind_to_address “127.0.0.1″

Ctrl + x ,then Y.

If we want to store our music library on a usb storage:

Let’s see how Debian calls our drive: (formatted in fat32):

fdisk -l

Specifically for me: /dev/sda1

Let’s create the  Music folder and chmod it :

mkdir /media/Music
chmod -R 777 /media/Music
mount /dev/sda1 /media/Music

Modify the fstab file with our partitions :

nano /etc/fstab
just add this line:

/dev/sda1 /media/Music vfat defaults 0 0

Ctrl+x then Y

Let’s check if everything is ok:

mount -a

If we don’t get any error message, we’re ready to go.

reboot

If we want to use a nas as storage (SAMBA)

Install samba client

apt-get install smbclient

Creating  mount directory:

mkdir /mnt/nas
chmod 777 /mnt/nas

Mount the nas

mount -w -t cifs -o username=,password= //192.168.1.nasip/sharename /mnt/nas
If you’ve protected your share with password, insert them. If none password or user has been set, just leave this field empty

Check with:

ls /mnt/nas

If everything is ok, you should see your directories.

Let’s set the automount

nano /etc/fstab

Add this line in the end

//192.168.1.ipnas/sharename /mnt/nas cifs username=,password= 0 0

Check with:

mount -a

If no error appears, again, we’re ready to go

reboot

Ok, last entries in our configuration file:

nano /etc/mpd.conf

Let’s tell mpd where our music is stored:

Usb storage:

music_directory “/media”

Nas storage:
music_directory “/mnt/nas”

If you have a usb dac, let’s tell mpd to use this instead of the shitty analog out:

audio_output {
type “alsa”
name “USB Dac”
device “hw:1,0″ # optional
format “44100:16:2″ # optional
mixer_device “default” # optional
# mixer_control “PCM” # optional
# mixer_index “0″ # optional

These options can be quite different depending how debian calls your dac, but i always used that with different usb dacs and it always worked. You can try by changing in 1,0 instead of 0,1 but this is up to you. As you can see, I din’t changed everything from resampling to buffer size etc etc. This will be done in future tweaking tutorials. Anyway the quality of music reproduction with these settings is pretty awesome, so expect some minor improvements with further tweakings.

Some examples:

If you wish to enable audio buffering (and so ram reading). Uncomment these strings.

#audio_buffer_size “2048″
#buffer_before_play “10%”

If you want to send the audio stream directly to the usb dac, bypassing any software\hardware mixer. Change the string

mixer_device “default”

in

mixer_device “none”

ctrl+ x e Y

reboot

Now You should choose a client in order to control your mpd box. The best available is GMPC for Windows\Linux. Pretty simple and straightforwarding (sometimes it freezes, hope this will get solved) you can find it here. Then you can use Mpdroid or Mpod to control mpd via smartphone. These 2 clients are really good and goodlooking.

Happy music, folks!

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You can find it here

This really comes ready-to-play out of the box. Just copy it on your SD card via Win32diskimager (you can grab it here) and you’re ready to go. Then you only need to connect trough SSH and edit your mpd.conf file.

If you don’t have any SSH client, I strongly suggest to use putty (available here)

you can do it by tiping on your ssh terminal :

User: root
Password: raspi

nano /etc/mpd.conf

It’s configured to find your music on usb or on a nas. If you prefere to read your music on a usb key (or hard disk, but you should use a self-powered hard disk to do so) just modify your file as follows

#music_directory “/mnt/nas”
music_directory “/media/Music”

and then ctrl+ x, then y

Otherwise, store your music on a samba share called Nas and modify as:

music_directory “/mnt/nas”
#music_directory “/media/Music”

and then ctrl+ x, then y.

then reboot

reboot

And you’re ready! Just play your library with your favourite client and enjoy!

Known issues:

-no 512mb support
-flac over 96khrz need to be resampled

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