PiDAL: the Raspberry Pi as a TIDAL CONNECT streamer

Camera: Olaf von Voss | Editor: John Darko | Motion GFX: John Darko | Ad segment: Jana Dagdagan

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0:00 What's TIDAL Connect?
2:32 HifiBerry
8:40 Volumio
14:06 Further musings

Tidal Connect: Who? What? Why?:

Tidal Connect for beginners:

Spoti-Pi:

HifiBerry DAC+ Pro:

Volumio + Tidal Connect:

Raspberry Pi 4 + heatsink case:

Helm Bolt:

AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt:

#raspberrypi #tidal #volumio

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[DarkoAudio]

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[Frank]

I like that you spent so much time on the whole Raspberry Pi ecosystem. Attainable quality audio for the hobbyist. I hope you keep following this line.

[leo]

I just recently discovered your channel and I really want to say thank you. You keep a very open mind about a wide variety of ways to listen to music. I really like how you explained how one man's budget can greatly limit what his max audio options are. Knowing you take that into account reassures this viewer that you are going to bring all the best options to us and let us decided. Thank you again.

[thelogicmatrix]

Damn, I just really love your videos they feel like they were produced by a channel 5 times your size with 20 times the budget. I love the editing style.

[robertnelson]

Thanks for the update. I just updated my Volumio. At this time all I have is a drive connected with Flac files of CD. Since I just lost the job at hospital I will hold off on tidal or anything else for time being. Thanks for starting me on this journey.

[EntrevuesJosiasGob]

Thanks John. Becoming an audiophile since the beginning of COVID-19 helped me. Bravo to your high quality videos.

[jwbrook]

John, thank you for your videos about the raspberry pi. I was looking at the bluenode and other streamers, but got the raspberry pi and installed volumio on it. Works great, sounds great... Love it!

[kkbubar]

Thx John for the update on Volumio. I have two Pi based dacs did a update on both and had Tidal connect working within a hour. I’m pleased with the results much better way to stream Tidal on these devices.

[virtualmike]

Thank you! I purchased a Rsdpberry Pi 4 and a Boss DAC hat, got it up and running and now enjoy using Volumio with my audio system. Really appreciate your exposition of the journey, it’s an exciting time to be part of the audiophile universe now!

[alexrichardson]

You are a pleasure to watch. Complicated material put very simply. Thank you.😀

[GertJanHaarman]

Waiting for spotify Hifi, what that will bring, i hope far more than 7%, cd quality will do! Thanks for a again a nice video John. Also for bringing Poligon Window into my room! 👌

[AKelly-wdlj]

Love this Raspberry Pi stuff! I've been considering a move to Tidal, but I think I'm going to hold off until Spotify go lossless. Just comfortable with the Spotify app!

[grayfool]

Excellent. I love a good fiddle with kit too. Glad to see that not everyone is promoting just the mega priced solutions. Not that I wouldn't go for some of those if I had the cash, of course.

[CarlosFigueroa]

Omg tidal connect finally afforfable, thanks for bring it to me, I will start the project!

[monochromios]

I wasn't aware of HifiBerry OS. Minimal and effective. That's all I was looking for my Raspberry Pi. Thank you for sharing.

[cricketlife]

I hope they extend tidal connect even further like spotify connect. Great video John👌🏼👌🏼

[tonyswash]

Superb. Many thanks for this, its been a long time coming.

[duranarts]

Great job John. This is why I love your content. Always trying ways to enjoy music.

[maximo]

Been waiting for this breakthrough. Major thanks

[rodneyvandenoever]

Very useful. Like the unintentional pun at then end: 'hats off....'