Article: Allo USBridge Sig Review

[Richard Dale]

I use Rigelian on an iPad in conjunction with moOde running on Rasperry Pis in my systems and it is a really nice combination. I haven’t found anything as good as BubbleUPnP on Android to use with a DLNA backend on my iPad. The advantage of Rigelian is that it uses the native MPD protocol and has canned configurations for moOde, Volumio and Rune to handle the cover art (you need a file called ‘folder.jpg’ in each album folder with cover art picture). You need to be able to mount the files on your NAS with SMB or NFS.

[Richard Dale]

4 hours ago, Gavin1977 said:

My USBridge sig arrives today - I went for the eMMC version as this frees up the SDcard slot.  I'm wondering if payback direct from SDcard is possible and if it also sound better than a network source.  I look forward to testing!

Does the eMMC version sound any better than the SD card version. Are the any advantages with having the OS run off eMMC?

[Richard Dale]

5 minutes ago, Gavin1977 said:

I don't know - but I intend to find out over the weekend!

 

eMMC should be lower latency as it's located on the Raspberry Pi compute module.

I’m thinking of ordering a Allo Sig as a result of this review, but haven’t decided to go for eMMC version. I read somewhere that Allo had optimised the power supply for the SD card, and I assume they couldn’t do that if the eMMC is on the compute module board. So that may or may not be an issue - if the eMMC is getting the same cleaned power as the rest of the compute module it won’t be. That and as long as you can run off both eMMC or SD card with a different boot setting I think I’ll go for eMMC.

[Richard Dale]

1 hour ago, allo.com said:

Hi

 

 please note we are not using eMMC on RPI CM. Instead we made a eMMC that plugs into the SD card with an adapter . The advantage is not faster speed ,but we are observing less corruptions happening on the eMMC compared with SD cards.

Interesting, thanks for that

[Richard Dale]

17 hours ago, Casper said:

 

I looked at Rigelian, and see that it’s a subscription model software; but I can’t find any information about the pricing - what does it cost?

 

Cheers,

I paid 3.49 euros for a year's subscription.

[Richard Dale]

1 hour ago, Gavin1977 said:

As soon as they add in streaming services then I'm in!

Rigelian is an MPD client and so it isn't its job to implement streaming services. That would be done by the server end software running MPD, such as moOde.