I was going to say that Moode may not offer the best SQ, but then I saw that you are using a digital HiFi Berry, so Moode is not your biggest roadblock to getting the best SQ. Try an Allo Digione with a good power supply and Volumio and you might be amazed at the difference.

Hey @borisdigital, I took your idea and built my own Moode player. I used an Arduino to drive the LCD display and read the buttons (and a mini joystick). The display is a standard refurbished Nokia 5110 display. The Arduino and Raspberry Pi communicate over a USB serial cable. The box I use is an old Dreambox DM8000 that had an (unrepairable) broken power supply. Awesome idea! Happy to share diagrams and code (Sketch & Python).

Far out man !

Very clever! I love 8-track tapes, but I always wondered what it would be like if the format was upgraded and given more R&D. Imagine if you had 8-track tapes with Metal/chrome tape, or a head that was non-mechanical and could switch programs electronically (to help reduce alignment issues).

Python with Containers?? wow... what used to be super computer tech used in a DIY hobby... and the QR code reader for 7$... image recognition that alone would have cost 10Gs in the 90s.. nuts..

That is bad ass!! Love it!!

Fascinating. I had a quad setup back in the day, a Lafayette 4 channel receiver, Garrard tt with 2 carts for the various quad lp formats, an 8 track quad recorder/player and a casette deck. The casette deck was a Lafayette, I don't recall the brand of the 8 track. Everything went into a couple of RussSound switching boxes and the wiring in the back was an absolute nightmare!

Brilliant

Outstanding work, BorisDigital ! Have you considered offering your plans as means for others to build their own? Would think this would be a fun project for many to honor your work!

IS QUAD GONNA COME BACK??? I direly need stuff to play on my sansui

Amazing work sir! 👍🏻 Is there any possibility to map CamillaDSP's filters, such as parametric EQ, to physical analogue sliders?

If I were able, I'd of done the same thing. I've dreamed of similar things. How about a program that automatically divides an album into 4 parts, and automatically fades out, clicks and fades back in four programs. I'd use it for making actual recodings on 8track carts.

BTW, I also use M.A.L.P. on my Android phone to remotely manage my music on the MoOde player, works great. For my wife M.A.L.P. is easyer than the web-interface of MoOde.

Great video, thanks for sharing. I love MoOde Audio just as much as Pi Core Player. Have a nice day

Absolutely AWESOME. I just built a car stereo that blends an 8 track player, mp3 player and equalizer with a subwoofer and it hits HARD!

Another great project! Thanks for sharing it with us😀

Thats great. Can we expect more?

Why save a hideous clock radio? 🙂 i build stuff too so I follow.

This is fucking nice!

How much? :-)

Just genial and amazing!

That a nice unit. Very well explained. When Quad us set up right, it sounds great

This "8 track" player is brilliant!

Oh no, Python........ Why not using a real language?

I am loving your videos. One project along a similar line that I have been thinking building is an updated boom box. Take an old stereo boom box and upgrade the speakers, amplifier, and add a screen/bluetooth etc. So you have the aesthetics of an old 80s or 90s boombox but with much better performance etc.

Thanks for the video. It's given me the 'missing link' idea for a bed-time podcast player I've been planning. I have been thinking over how to manage auto-off and backward seek when I'm half-asleep. Your audio loop-by-button trigger design made me realize that I could just have a playback button which auto-offs after 10 minutes or so, and another back-seek button which jumps back by 1 minute on each press (to find where I fell sleep the night before) then plays from that point. Instead of looping, playback would be through a multi-file playlist managed from an internal web server. Simple enough, but the automated off, seek time as part of the button press and internal web server file management didn't occur to me until I saw this video 😀

Thanks for your content, really enjoy your videos.

first (i want this)

Very cool. Surprised you don't have a stereo output hat. Love it though. :)

I aaume your FLAC files are stored on a local NAS?

This is a great video Sir, and gives me ideas !!! thank you

Wow, That's awesome! I have a Compaq Ipaq mp3 stereo receiver sitting on a shelf somewhere and I've always wanted to use it but it is very slow. I would love to try your idea but I'm just not as good with code as I would like to be or need to be.

I was wondering where you're storing your MP3 & FLAC files from. Please explain.

Really excellent project video. Inspiring and motivating.

oooh! What are you doing with that Audrey back there?

Great work!! I also collected _three_ tuners last year to 'upgrade' like this, but did not get around to it yet. This inspires me to finally get on with it and start that project again

Too bad the Ho-Hum restaurant wasn't captured on film. If I remember correctly, it was near McDonald's and Budget Bakery.

What a great project and an even better execution, Boris! I had hit the subscribe button even before the video ended :)

I skipped a few steps by broadcasting my raspberry pi over FM and tuning in with vintage components!

*Promo SM* 💕

Hi Boris, that is truly excellent use of an old tuner ……. well done !

Brand new subscriber - love your videos and that you put some random retro behind you every time... I'll be baaaaaaaaccckkk. @TechHeart6090

Turtle Beach made an affordable unit like this called the AudioTron. I still have mine and it works, though it has some limitations. Large music collections can bog it down on boot, but there is a cataloging software out there that can resolve that mostly. From my memory I don’t believe it supports lossless codecs, but I could be wrong about that.

This is a great realization, which is full of good taste in the apparent simplicity of its design as well as in the beauty of the result

this is an awesome project, I had no idea this type of thing was even capable. Thanks for sharing!

This was a wonderful video to stumble across on a rainy Saturday morning. Subscribed! And I am now looking forward to all your other videos.

Genius ! Also i was looking for a project for digital pre-amp with multiple inputs and selectors. point me to if you have any in your mind thank you!

Good inspiration! I've thought about reusing old hifi gear for similar things before. Will have to find a reason for such a thing one day!

How can you talk all this bullshit?!

Awesome work ! New subscriber