because 1) picore is superlight and better to handle for the raspberry system.2) runs on ram, so there's should not be any risk to face a system file corruption if you suddenly shut down the system.3) great support from the community, thet are literally surfing the wave.4)customization: there's a plenty of additional features you can obtain playing with the raspberry gpio. they just work. plug-ins work, everything! i can't tell the same for the moode and volumio user.5) it seems to me that the fatter the system is, the more the issues are.6) by paying a software does not mean a user can't get problems. there are a lot of talented programmers around the world that just make it for passion, and they make it even better.( and deserve a donation i think)

@@nickburak7518 with picore and the extension “Material skin”you can simply point from any browser to your picore mac address followed by :9000 and you’re in! No app needed

@@nickburak7518 generaly 192.168.WHATEVER.WHATEVER:9000

@@nickburak7518 you’re welcome, i like to share the few things i understood

Why both? I'm thinking about Roon it a bit expensive but soooo convenient.

Thanks, glad it was useful, re the audio, I will definitely improve it in the future videos.

I use a cheap USB mic "CAD U1" with no equalization, using ALSA in Linux...check out some of my videos for the audio. Cheers!

And maybe cut a little 7k

Good headphones, and I have no problems with audio.

Yeah and too many annoying "ssss", it's literally hurting

Why is he whispering

Oh, the irony…

Thanks a lot for your comment. Glad it was helpful. Yes, I agree piCore and tidal hifi, I mean the limitation there is disappointing

Hi, I used your setup guide and Johny Darko's review of picore and LMS on one 'box' earlier in the year. Interestingly I've just tested and cancelled my volumio vertuoso install. This was the only way to get tidal connect (I have the HiFi+ level in Aus) to 'pass'the stream to volumio. Incidentally my hardware is raspberry pi 4 into Hugo2 and then into my HiFi. I found that Volumio out of the box had no volume control, however no Master recording I tried played above standard redbook (CD quality) as indicated on the Hugo2. Note the Hugo2 is not a MQA DAC. And I don't think Volumio does the first 'unfold' anyway, so a big waste of money. THe tidal 'hand off' was clunky anyway. So I went back to picore player and LMS. I have LMS installed on an Intel NUC and just picore as the player/streamer. Tidal is connectable to LMS and can play via picore no problems and at redbook levels - so no different from Volumio Vertuoso and Tidal Connect! I use Orangesqueeze on my phone. If anyone is curious the picore player can output a DSD stream from a DSD encoded file from LMS with the DSD plugin. I mainly play my own ripped CDs and Tidal via LMS so do difference. Volumio had a slick install but not real fix for no volume control.

@@dowster64 "Volumio had a slick install but not real fix for no volume control." That's more of a driver issue than a Volumio issue. Having said that, Volumio 2.x is on an older Linux kernel, so that may limit the driver choice (did for the headphone amp on my HiFiBerry DAC2 Pro.) Volumio 3.x seems to be on a later Linux kernel with more up-to-date drivers, hence your issue may be fixed in that release (still in Beta.) It does solve the headphone amp issue on my HiFiBerry DAC2 Pro, for example.

Hi, thanks, as mentioned in the video volumio supports streaming services as Tidal, Qobuz, Hi-res audio, natively in volumio's premium plan, now also Tidal connect. Via plugins there is a support for Spotify and Spotify connect both will require premium account

@@TechRoadTrip Many thanks for answer, will start with Moode or Pico than bcs choosing Raspberry as cheapest music streamer possibility.

Do you know if I can import playlists from my PC onto Moode? I tried this with Volumio, but I couldn't import and use my premade playlists.

Yeah, Volumio is so buggy! The spotify plugin is not working now, before it just stopped. Their forum just says its free.

and never will.

Volumio has a KZfaq and KZfaq Music plugin - everything plays perfectly!

New video comparison with better audio is coming up soon. Re the web I don't know what monitor u use but for most people it's just fine. Tested on multiple devices

@@TechRoadTrip Thank you for responding - especially to an older video. The monitor I'm using is a Benq monitor with external speakers. It seems to work fine for other videos. I also tried it on Samsung TV, but it wasn't any better. It sounded like the narrator was speaking softly, but too close to the microphone. The resulting sound seemed bass heavy and garbled. Of course it could also be that at 70 yrs old, my hearing and vision are not what they used to be. Anyway, thanks for posting and it would be great to get an updated version.

A lot of time passed from the time I posted this comparison but looking aging now how some developers in this field still didn't listen yet, I still would stick to Picoreplayer, if you don't like the limitations I already described, moode is the second. Unfortunately I didn't have a chance to test Allo Boss2 yet.

I think all of them can work like that. You use the phone as a remote only. And not only the phone but any device that has a http browser. Picore player can be further split up into server (LMS) and player (squeezebox) on two separate machines but can work on one as well. It also supports the raspberry pi display, check google, there are a lot of projects like that.

HiFI, flac... all empty terms, what is IN that flac files is what matters, raw info about the data, how many bits, the sample rate. So in other words, did anything change here, or did nothing change and are we "just" still talking about 44.1 kHz / 16 bit CD audio files.

​​@@basmeyer22Deezer hifi plan streams are 44.1 kHz/16bit FLAC. They never had hi-ress.

New updated video review of current Volumio version is coming up soon. ...And yes, unfortunately only the paid subscription of Volumio supports Tidal and Tidal connect

You can connect your Bluetooth set directly to the pi. If it's connected to a PC you can access the files on the pi via samba share and use a player on the PC. For LMS, there is a squeezebox player for PC that you can control as a LMS player.

Thanks man, for your comment, absolutely agree with your point.

They use the 12 MB distro to run it in RAM for faster operation and to avoid SD wear and corruption. Also it can run on slower hardware as the pi zero w. I read somewhere it can even run on some esp32 versions with limited functionality. I don't think it will ever support docker.

It doesn't.

Through any http browser you access the pi IP address.

In essence its the same as Picoreplayer.

Have not tried that distro yet but will have a look at it, thanks for pointing it out.

Via airplay, should work on Volumio, Moode audio, also on Picoreplayer via plugin

Is this native, through a plug-in or upnp for Apple Music. Is AirPlay 2 supported ?

​@@rkumarblr1if you care for lossless music use AirPlay 1. AirPlay 2 sender to AirPlay 2 receiver is lossy 256kbps AAC.

thanks for that, that tells me all I need to know 😂 I saw their "monthly" pricing, I'll never understand why companies do that... worries me that it'll stop working when _they_ feel like it.