How have you been coping during the Covid Lockdown? Lots of people have been been undertaking various projects and this is something that has been on my list for a long time.
I have been using the Logitech Media Server software for a long time. I currently have my music library running on a Lubuntu micro PC that I bought for £20 used. The music library is stored on a NAS device.
Up until now, I have been using a phone app or Apple TV app called SlimLibrary but I have always wanted a physical device to connect to one of my Hi-Fi and/or surround amplifier so this has prompted me to kill two birds with one stone and work on a Rasberry Pi computer that I’ve always wanted to play with, and also with some software called piCorePlayer to receive the streamed music from the server software.
I am looking to HiFiBerry to buy one of their bundles, including a bolt on DAC (no soldering required). This coupled with some RCA cables to the amp should provide the solution.
I look to be posting more here on that, and also some videos on YouTube so watch this space.
Read about the build here