voyage-mpd

[francois]

I was curious about voyage-mpd and have installed it (last 0.7 version, with Halide Bridge)

 

Really disappointed with sound quality even after tried some tweaks found here:

 

http://sites.google.com/site/computeraudioorg/linux-for-audio

 

This PC have 1.5 GB RAM, one IDE hard drive for system/audio files (also tried to put audio files on RAM disk) , no wireless, no graphic card, all unused peripheric disabled, used with J.River-Foobar-Cplay on XP/7 with better experience. Network file transfers is OK, MPD client is located on another PC

 

CPU is 2% while playing a song and not swapping. Audio files are flac 44.1 Khz

 

Sound is like touched by congestion and too much grain, in comparison with my favorite Mac or Windows players

 

Anybody with a positive experience with MPD ?

 

Best

François

 

[ninekit]

I am also curious and keen on voyage MPD, just wonder if there are any more comments?

 

As a Linux newbie, its quite a steep curve for me to learn and up this for a trial, thats why I would like to hear more user comments before diving in.

 

Thanks

 

[realmassy]

I'm actually a very happy MPD user.

I'm not using any USB/SPDIF converter (yet), my MPD server is a fanless Dell Mini, my music is stored on a NAS in FLAC and WAV format, my dac is Havana.

I'm not using version 0.70, but I'm still on an old snapshot release, I recompiled ALSA drivers 1.0.24 and MPD disabling everything but FLAC and WAV support.

Sound coming from this setup is way better, to my humble ears, than Foobar on XP, or my previous Sonos Zone Player connected to the SPDIF input.

 

[vortecjr]

send me via e-mail your mpd config file to [email protected]

 

Jesus R

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