Hi Everyone,
Michelangelo from Volumio here, just to announce that finally Volumio is available for Pine64. For those that don't know Volumio yet, here's a brief overview of it:
Volumio is a free and Open Source Linux Distribution, designed and fine-tuned exclusively for music playback. By flashing (installing) Volumio on any of this platforms, it will then become an headless Audiophile Music Player.
Headless means that the only way to control it will be with another Mobile phone, computer or tablet.
This is made possible by Volumio’s UI: a web applications that runs on any device with a browser, and that allows an easy and intuitive control of your playback sessions.
All communications between the webapp and Volumio will happen through your home network.
FEATURES
Minimal operating system, tailored for Bit-Perfect Audio Playback
Works with any USB 2.0 DAC
Supports all filetypes: FLAC, Alac, Aac, Vorbis, Mp3, DSD etc
UPNP Playback
Airplay Playback
DSD Over PCM support, for non Direct-DSD compatible hardware
Integrated WebRadio directories
If a compatible wireless hardware is found, Volumio will create an hotspot network for first configuration
Mount CIFS and NFS Network Attached Storage, with an auto-discovery function
Custom playlist editing and creation
Plugin support with new functions available like Spotify and Digital Room Correction
Seamless update system: no need to reinstall when a new version is available
Multilanguage with a growing number of translations available
Image background support, even your favourite one
Alarm and sleep function
At first boot, it creates an handy hotspot for you to connect to
I'm somewhat familiar with the basic cmake/make/make install recipe for compiling code. The issue is that this usually results in code compiled for the architecture of the host machine (which for me is an Intel Core i7 / x86_64). Compiling code on this machine is lightspeed faster than compiling directly on the Pine.
Are there (I'm sure there are) flags/switches/make-file changes I can make/use when compiling on my desktop so that the resulting binaries will work on the Pine?
I tried this just now "cmake . -DCFLAGS='-maarch64' -DCXXFLAGS='maarch64'" but I didn't see any messages about the architecture changing. I'm waiting for the compile to finish.
How will the selection of boot source be handled on the SOPINE64? I do not see a switch or jumper on the baseboard or module board to switch between a micro SD card and a eMMC card.
I guys,
I use sometimes my Pine A64+ 1GB as a mediacenter.
So I decided to make a nostalgic case, by installing the board inside an original VHS cassette.
I removed the tape, the reels, cutted some plastic inside and on the sides to let cables connect inside to the board.
