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Gribbly Grobbly Mar 2016 12:57pm, 23 Mar 2016 12 posts	0 Gribbly Grobbly Shanksi and Chrisull, are you using a stereo 3.5mm plug into the Pi and are you having any problems with noisy connections due to the audio/video jack?
shanksi Mar 2016 1:39pm, 23 Mar 2016 1,367 posts	0 shanksi I am currently using a stereo 3.5mm plug and it seems to be ok - mind you I'm no audiophile and I live with 3 children so I reckon it would have to be pretty noisy before I started to notice.
Chrisull Mar 2016 2:52pm, 23 Mar 2016 8,636 posts	0 Chrisull Yes I am using a stereo 3.5mm plug, and again I'm also no audiophile and have 3 children too, however I do play it over my floor speakers from richer sounds and don't notice any problems due to the jack.
Gribbly Grobbly Mar 2016 12:54pm, 24 Mar 2016 13 posts	0 Gribbly Grobbly Are you both using pre B+ Pis (before the separate composite video connection was removed and combined with the audio jack?) The B+, 2 and 3 all have this four pole connection.
shanksi Mar 2016 1:20pm, 24 Mar 2016 1,368 posts	0 shanksi Yes, GG, my Pi is "nonplussed" - pretty sure it's a Pi 1 Model B.
AngusClydesdale Mar 2016 11:29pm, 28 Mar 2016 10,737 posts	0 AngusClydesdale Have received Pi3 and Pi0 in the post, accompanied by assorted exciting extras. Have to admit to being a wee bit petrified about the next step. Project Biff_to_Boffin may have refused at the first fence..........
shanksi Mar 2016 9:59am, 29 Mar 2016 1,369 posts	0 shanksi Good luck AC, it'll be fun. Quick update on my RuneAudio set up - reading music directly from a USB flash drive and/or a USB portable HDD seemed to get rid of the choppiness, but then something happened (possibly device falling off the arm of a chair and jolting power and/or SD card) and there's no response. Red power LED comes on, green "I'm alive" LED flickers ever so briefly, but no sign of it on the network. Will have to investigate. But at least it looks like I can get rid of the choppiness by using a HDD (new WD PiDrive maybe ) which suggests the problem was to do with the WiFi. Probably
Gribbly Grobbly Mar 2016 11:49am, 29 Mar 2016 14 posts	0 Gribbly Grobbly shanksi did you try a network cable before the Pi wobbled? The wifi transfer rate is quite slow (I haven't quanitfied it since it wasn't sufficient for what I was doing) and that would definitely explain choppy playback. My solution for cabling out-of-the-way Pis is powerline networking with mains pass-through. Since the Pi is usually plugged-in, the installation is quite neat. It sounds like your Pi isn't booting. It's usually the SD card. I had no bother until the Pi 2 and micro SDs and I then had regular trauma rebooting with a batch of pukka San Disks. I'm now using Samsung and happy again, although I had a slight concern that it was a previous incarnation of Raspbian. Perhaps I was just unlucky. One other thing, if you've recently made a change to your wireless network and prevented the SSID from being broadcast then the Pi won't connect to the wifi without a change to the /etc/network/interfaces file. thehecklers.org WD's Pi drive has a 2-3 week lead time at the moment - it's popular.
Gribbly Grobbly Mar 2016 6:22pm, 31 Mar 2016 15 posts	0 Gribbly Grobbly I mentioned Pi drives by WD in the previous post. I've learned a little more through experience and it's good to share since it had been troubling me for a while. I was pondering the need for the octopus-like cable of the WD Pi cable and having to specify a a more powerful PSU than their version which was designed for Pi 1 and 2. I realised that the reason for the officially recommended 2.5A specification for the Pi 3 was partly due to the idea that it would likely be used with an external USB drive. I was wondering about enclosures for the HDD and Pi as well. So, I bought a WD 'My Passport Ultra' USB HDD and with the recommended Pi 3 PSU of 2.5A the HDD is performing beautifully with only a single USB3 to USB cable without any fancy extra bits, additional cables or extra power supplies. The HDD footprint is marginally larger than the official Pi case and thinner (thinner still if you go for the 500GB / 1TB version). The Pi is USB 2 only but the USB 3 compatibility of the HDD allows for faster file transfer from a pc or mac.
Gribbly Grobbly Mar 2016 7:27pm, 31 Mar 2016 16 posts	0 Gribbly Grobbly