Slobberbone's Links 29/05/2015
piCorePlayer is a dedicated Squeezebox player (like a Duet receiver) for your Raspberry pi board. It is build on a small read-only linux (Microcore) and Triodes excellent Squeezelite player.

It is very small about 55 MB in total including the OS (microcore linux). It boots very fast, already 10-15 sec after you power on, then your piCorePlayer will be found in the Logitech Media Server control panel. After booting everything is running from RAM so there is no writing to the SD-card and therefore no risk of corruption of your card - just pull the power if you need to. It is possible to synchronize  the piCorePlayer to other Squeezebox devices.

Included in piCorePlayer:
1. Microcore linux
2. Squeezelite player
3. WEB-server so the configuration can be managed via your browser
4. Setup script
5. SSH access (using Dropbear) - so you can connect via LAN from another computer (via Putty).
6. Option to use a WiFi dongle
7. Option to use a USB-DAC with up to 24 bit 192 khz
8. Option to use HDMI audio out up to 24 bit 192 khz (out of the box)
9. Option to use the 3.5" audio jack (out of the box)
10. Option to use a analog I2S-DAC (Hifiberry DAC), (IQaudIO) and a I2S DAC based on the Sabre 9023 chip
11. Option to use a Digital I2S-DAC (Hifiberry Digi)
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