New Volumio user from Australia

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Hey guys,

My name is Mike. I’ve always enjoyed tinkering and got volumio up and running pretty quickly on my Raspberry Pi. Having Volumio connected to a NAS share will replace a computer I’ve been using to play back my music.

I have a HiFimeDIY Sabre USB DAC on the way which I hope will work with the Rpi/Volumio. I am also dipping my feet into NAS territory for the first time, I’m awaiting delivery of a HP Proliant N54L MicroServer to run FreeNas to serve files for the audio player and a Plex client (Jailbroken AppleTV)

Some ideas I have for projects:

  1. A relay to switch powered speakers on or off at the outlet depending on whether music is playing back. (Triggered via GPIO)

  2. I collect live music torrents, I considered making an interface that pulls images and memorabilia of shows from a database to display on a screen while the show (FLAC) is playing.

  3. In-car Pi to airplay and/or load tracks from a USB.

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Hi Mike,
think we share the same approach on life… The Hifimediy is an excellent choice, very high price\quality ratio.
And for your project, really eager to see them deployed! I also like the idea of a relays controlled turn on\off mechanism for my system. As a couch potato this will be a great joy.
As for the second, I want to look how to retrieve and fetch album arts and informations. I was very happy with songbird, that made this stuff… I’ll really like to have your contribution on that!
As for the car, there were a similar project on RaspyFi , and aht961 made an excellent tutorial you could take as inspiration:

http://www.raspyfi.com/forum/your-setup-your-sound-your-place-on-hearth/my-humble-wifi-car-music-streamer/

Let me know!