building a linux stereo receiver?

[Matt Price]

Yes, I was thinking along htose lines, Tyler.  But maybe it's not
worth it -- better to make a tiny raspberry pi-based box w/ a decent
sound card, a medium-sized hard drive, & a wireless connection, onnect
to an amp, and drive the audio player via some remote software -- shiv
had an idea for that but I can't remember what it was...

m

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Something that's mostly amp, with a DC conversion for the computer portion (
> and a raspberri pi for the brains) might work nicely
>
> On Jan 23, 2013 1:55 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 01:54:25PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>> > Hey folks,
>> >
>> > My stereo receiver just blew (wrong fuse!).  I am thinking about
>> > replacing it with a simple embedded linux system that can
>> > - play digital soundfiles stored on some kind of local hard drive
>> > - be controlled from other computers in the house, and preferably also
>> > from our android tablet
>> > - access files on shared disk drives that live on other computers on the
>> > LAN
>> > - switch inputs so e.g. it's possible to play records from the turntable
>> >
>> > Has anyone ever done anything like that?  Any suggestions?
>>
>> What will amplify for the speakers?  After all if you have 150W speakers
>> and want to drive 5 of those, that's up to 750W.  What part of your PC
>> is going to drive that?
>>
>> Most PCs also only have 1 or 2 line ins for audio.  Not that helpful
>> in general.
>>
>> Also do you actually want to pass your sound through such a noisy
>> environment as your PC case if you don't have to?
>>
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