yep, only Volumio.
Or a glass of beer… but then it becomes difficult to put it in the rPi 
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Oh becomes easier with beer lol. So what’s the Imager you mentioned?
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with the imager you flash the SD card. I prefer to work with Disk32Imager as it can also backup the card, when fully installed.
Please read this: Guide
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Awesome. Thanks for the info
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Sorry if our support team did not reply fast enough. Do you mind telling how you contacted them? So we can improve it.
I suggest 2 things:
- Make sure you use a very good quality SD Card
- Does your power supply have lot of capacitance? We observed that some PSUs, when power is lost, they gradually decrease their voltage (instead of shutting down abruptly). This is very likely to corrupt the SD Card.
Let us know
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I just downloaded the Pi Imager. What option do I choose for software when using volumio?
huh? Volumio is the software. What do you mean?
When you open up the Pi writer it asks for what software or image I want to use. I think I figured it out. Other image was an option at the bottom of the list.
Missed that this was the question, but you sorted it out.
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So I got it back up. I used Win32 as the Pi one didn’t work. It wrote two separate files. Anyway I want to make sure I did it properly:
1: Reformatted a 32GB drive
2: Wrote volumio to that drive using Win32
3: It took much longer to write than Belena did, however after the write it split the SD card up into multiple drives. Belena did this too. Not sure if that’s normal
4: I inserted the SD then plugged in the Allo Digione Signature side in first followed by the dirty side to power the Pi4.
5: Waited about a minute and Volumio-755 showed up in the wifi. I selected that and it brought me to the volumio setup
6: I selected DAC 12S from the playback menu and picked Digione, rebooted, went back in and de-selected the DAC, exited the playback menu, went back into the playback menu and selected digione signature. That’s the only way I can get it to show up by the way. After all that it’s now working.
Now how do I turn it off and back on properly without unplugging the power? This is where everything usually gets screwed up.
I went to the volumio site and used the support option
via volumios interface “Shutdown” and slect “Restart” or through ssh entering
sudo reboot
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This is another clue to support the thesis that the culprit might be etcher
It reboots after a restart through volumio, but if I power off in volumio it won’t come back. That’s when I need to pull the card and go through the whole process again. I enabled SSH through volumio.local/dev but how do you use it as you’ve suggested? Thanks again for the help and sorry for the questions. This is completely new to me.
If you power off, you need to pull the power source and reconnect it.
Shutting down the rPi, sets the rPi in some kind of standby mode.
If you don’t add a reset switch, removing the power source is the only option to restart. (google for this)
Back again lol. So I shut it off using volumio, then unplugged it. Pwer3d it Back up and it came on. However there’s no radio stations that will play and no sound output for Spotify so I did a reset and it’s gone again. Have to pull the card and start from scratch. I don’t get it. Is there anything else like volumio that works and that’s app based? I know there’s web based options.
Out of ideas on this one.
Yes there are others, use Google. I am not sure if it is appropriate to mention other platforms/applications here. But some of them are pretty complex. Volumio is one of the easiest ones to get going.
maybe @volumio should step in for support.
It’s unfortunate because I really like the format but it’s so unstable. Any power loss or even a shutdown completely wipes it out. It’s pretty inconvenient to have to rewrite software almost every day. But thanks for your help
yeah, but what is happening with your rPi is far from normal. Sometimes rPi’s crashes caused by the SD, but with you its ridiculous.
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