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Learning Raspbian

You're reading from   Learning Raspbian Get up and running with Raspbian and make the most out of your Raspberry Pi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392192
Length 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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William Harrington William Harrington
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Preface 1. The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian 2. Getting Started with Raspbian FREE CHAPTER 3. Starting Raspbian 4. An Introduction to the Raspbian Desktop 5. Installing Software on Raspbian 6. The Console 7. Other Linux Distributions Based on Raspbian A. References Index

Volumio


Volumio (http://volumio.org/) is a free, open source Linux distribution based on Raspbian, designed to turn a Raspberry Pi into an audiophile music player. Volumio is designed to be easy to use. To quote the Volumio website, Volumio can be defined as follows:

"Volumio is designed to be simple. To sound amazing. To be what your music deserves."

After installing Volumio onto your Raspberry Pi, you can control the music that you are playing using any smartphone or tablet with Wi-Fi.

The interesting thing about Volumio is that, as it has been designed for use by audiophiles (people who enjoy high-quality audio), it is designed to be able to use external digital-to-analog converters (D/A) to increase the quality of the sound being played. These D/A converters plug into your Raspberry Pi and work as a very high-quality sound card. The following image shows the Volumio web interface:

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