Playing digital music on my 45SE

When moved to the UK 6 years ago faced the challenge that I couldn’t move my personal CD collection. So ripped as many as I could on mp3 / m4a / AIFF with the best quality I could. Didn’t take a hi-fi approach on those days as didn’t have the time nor the knowledge. Just wanted to get my huge CD collection with me and had just a few days to address it. Currently I have a collection of about 100GB of digital music. Can’t fit in an iPod or not very interested in using an iPod for playing a part of it. Problem is that my computer is not in the same room where my 45 SE is 🙁

Looking at how to address this problem, Rob (DHTRob) suggested using voyage linux + mpd as a music server. I was considering a Raspberry Pi, but long lead times at the moment pushed me to look at alternatives.

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So here is the first quick build for this digital music station. A tiny Linux server with WLAN and mpd running on it. My collection is all stored now on an SSD 128GB usb disk. The voyage Linux server is powered by a shunt 18V regulator.

What comes next is the USB DAC, which is on its way 🙂