I totally get that.
I’ll build you a Raspberry Pi 4 with a touchscreen for art that does Airplay. Or help you do it. Or read your Cambridge review with delight.
Just saying I’m here to enable your audio habit!
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If there’s a pi package that isnt volumio that can do what I want, i’m all ears. Like I said, I have a Pi 3+ with dac hat sitting around in my garage collecting dust. 
It was used for volumio at a time, but that was quite a frustrating experience to work with.
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Agree, I have a few Pi’s running Ropieee with the touch screen and it’s a nice solution but an integrated solution is cleaner.
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For Airplay and a display: RoPieeeXL
For Airplay and DLNA / squeezebox + touch screen with controls = PiCore Player
Not tested by me: MooDe = touchscreen, Spotify, tidal, upnp and bluetooth - well regarded.
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You can give a try to moode (moodeaudio.org) to my ears it sounds far better than volumio. It is a free program so it isn’t developed and curated as volumio is but definitely better sound IMO.
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@mfadio @monochromios - thanks. now i have another rabbit hole to go down.
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I use regularly moode on my Pi and I confirm it works well.
You have also the access to older releases of the system through GitHub and you can pick the one that suits you better.
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I really like the Raspberry Pi stuff for getting tunes to all my various systems. Hard to swallow a large dedicated streamer cost for a garage stereo.
Keep in mind, I’m an idiot with a fully operational Raspberry Pi streamer, AND a Matrix mini.
My advice is worth exactly what you paid for it.
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This is a painless (for the wallet) rabbit hole fortunately 
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they have their use cases. I want to mini for my bedroom desk where an all in one is more elegant than an extra box for a Pi. in my office I use RopieeeXL so I can easily plug in whatever DAC and go.
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Hmmmm man the clock is ticking lol 
anyone compare it to a D90???
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Not sure there’s going to be a D/S DAC that’s going to beat that D90 for you @MRHifiReviews … that’s your baby
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I mean I love the Bifrost 2, it beats it in many ways
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Impressions from a couple of hours of WiFi, with a little time during max congestion: no problems, no audible drops, no stutter.
(I have a robust WiFi network. Tomorrow I was going to unplug all the access points, walk the matrix to the other side of the house and see how it does with a weak signal. Wanted to give you preliminary results due to the time pressure / price hike.)
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You rock thanks! I may order one in the am, to give it a shot. Thanks man @mfadio 
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Does anyone know if you can swap the line output. It prioritizes the XLR output and then RCA. However, I don’t know how to swap between them if both are plugged in. Thanks!
On mine they are both live at all times, I know of no way to turn one off.
Welcome to the community.
Quick question, does the remote for your Mini work to switch sources? The right side of my remote does zero so I can only choose source on the device itself, might be defective remote…
Yes, the top right button changes input sources.
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Greetings,
I am new to the community and have a question concerning the Matrix Audio Mini-i Pro 3. (which I own)
I am considering purchasing a Woo Audio WA 7. Could the WA 7 be connected to the Mini-i Pro 3 just to use its’ streaming capability? If yes, how would this be achieved?
Thanks