[Voyage-linux] Status of XMOS USB 2.0 Audio Development Kit Testing?

[Nick L.]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
<punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
>
>
>> Punky - How is the testing of the XMOS Development Kit going? It looks
>> like that kit is the most economical solution for playing 24 bit @ 192 kHz
>> FLAC files.
>>
>> If you have tested it, how well does it work on ALIX boards?
>>
> It works very well.  My test bed is now repetitively playing music with it
> for 28 days without problem:
>
> root at voyage:~# uptime
>  05:19:47 up 28 days, 14:18,  1 user,  load average: 0.13, 0.05, 0.05
> root at voyage:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [X20            ]: USB-Audio - XMOS USB Audio 2.0
>                      XMOS XMOS USB Audio 2.0 at usb-0000:00:0f.5-1, high
> speed
> root at voyage:~# ps -lef|grep mpd
> 1 S mpd       2822     1  7  80   0 - 18160 schedu Nov22 ?        2-00:54:34
> /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf
>
> One drawback is that you can't use another USB port for external storage of
> music files.

Punky,

Why not use mini-PCI SATA card with SATA to eSATA cable? The MPD
database updates would probably be a lot faster was well.