Don’t listen to the Windows fools, you are on the right track. Volumio and Raspbian on the same RPi SD Card? Surely, you already have it. Volumio is based on Raspbian and you only have to
apt update
apt install abcde
and you are done.
I wanted to turn Volumio into a CD Ripper myself, but still had not the time for this. It would be nice to have a ripper which stores the flac files on the same storage device where mpd will immediately find them. The only problem would be the hardware. You will need an external DVD/CD drive with its own power supply or - even better! - an internal DVD drive and a SATA-to-USB-Adapter which can power the device, something like this
but I have not tested this on a Raspberry PI.
I wanted to use my old Plextor drive from an old pc tower which is better than everything you can buy today.
If you try this, I would really like to know how it worked.
I have a USB DVD Drive (Samsung) which is very low power and easily runs off a USB 2.0 Port. I also have a USB connected 2.5" Disk and can connect both of these to te RPi USB Ports (via a powered USB Hub if necessary. I think that this would be all the hardware I need as long as the Power Supplies were capable of supplying the current and would be a really elegant solution if I can get it to work.
I am less clear on how I would run abcde from the Volumio headless App over the network to my Phone or Tablet. Can you share with me how you do this? … or am I breaking new ground here?
Specifically:
How do I get to a Terminal Screen under Volumio?
Once I have installed abcde, How do I open the App? Do I need to use a Keyboard, Mouse and a HDMI attached Monitor?
whatever works with the machinery and software we have available. I’m getting high quality results with this system so there’s no need for disparaging comments.
@robcee I think you may be waiting even longer for your correction than I will for an explanation from hli: of his proposition to run abcde under Volumio, headless and without access to a remote terminal session on the network interface! It sounds like a half baked idea to me.
Anyway, I have solved my need by installing Fre:ac on my Windows PC and configuring it to rip directly from the Optical Drive to FLAC Albums on my 128GB MicroSD Cards.
Thanks to dvo for the pointer to Fre:ac which I selected for the ease of installation without the need for additional codecs or plug-ins.
Yes, I just checked and all of the Fre:ac ripped FLAC files are 16 bit/ 44.1kHz. It’s odd that the MP3s ripped with Windows Media Player can be as high as 192kHz! This must be done by interpolation and is akin to attempting to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear!
and not by interpolation but by compression and you can set it as high as you can with it mp3 can go to 320 bit rate and flac works with compression max 8 that is what know of it and sounds good
I think there is a confusion between sample rate and bitrate…
sample rate in Hz
bitrate in bit/s
A CD quality is 16b 44.1Khz with a bitrate(1,411 kbit/s cd. A lossless (FLAC) is identical.
A good mp3 192kbit/s, with data destruction…
@dvo and @balbuze , Thank you for that clarification. I was indeed confused!
While I have your attention, could you explain why most DACs are spec’ed as:
Sampling Frequency: 384KHz
Resolution (Bits): 16-32
I understand the need for the sampling rate to be at least 10 x the highest analogue frequency being encoded but if the CD Redbook spec is 16bit, what would be the need for 24 or 32 bit resolution … and is there an application that can utilise these resolutions?
Spec for a Dac are the maximum values it can use. Let’s compare with a car, it is not because the max speed is 300km/h that you need to drive that speed to enjoy your travel…
There is no need to over sample a cd (my point of view) because you won’t add information that are not here…
You can get high Res files though, Qobuz, tidal or other, but not sure you can hear the difference, because of your Dac, amp, speakers, room, and your ears! For me most of High Res is marketing, even if thecnically it is better. A lot of users buy high Res music to listen on a low end system or even via Bluetooth and claim it is fantastic
OK, I think I understand how to do this with SSH and I will probably do this as another project.
For now, I a doing my ripping to FLAC with Fre:ac on my Windows PC as it is easier to do this at a desk and a Computer equipped with a CD Drive and lots of USB Ports … rather than on the RPi which is currently installed as a “Player” at my Quad Amplifier on my Music rack.
