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Here's my recent blog post on this very subject: http://www.undr.com/understatement/2024/replacing_sonos_due_to_enshittification/index.html http://www.undr.com/

• palata 2y ago
  Sweet! Though I know nothing about sound hardware. Do you just buy "dumb" speakers and connect them all to the RPi "somehow" (with this soundcard hat, I assume)? I wonder how hard it would be for me to just open the Marshall, remove the "electronics", put an RPi there and connect the speaker/buttons... Also I spent a few minutes reading the volumio website and I still don't really get what they bring. How is volumioOS better than just having a Debian on my RPi and playing sound files?
  • lurn_mor 2y ago
    To be clear, it'a probably Debian underneath the VolumioOS: They offer good web and mobile integration, including album art and searches, with a responsive UI. Doing that by hand or CLI might be a challenge, but certainly not impossible. Considering you can install and run VolumioOS for free (avoiding all subscription/upgrades) solves most of the 'network' and 'audio' part of your player, gratis. You can use the default headphone audio output on the Raspi - my solution might be overkill. Yes, I have dumb speakers attached to a dumb amplifier which has one input for the Raspi's RCA outputs. (I do modify the stereo output to mono however)