The bus powered Seagate 2TB portable HDD I attached for library storage proved a bit too power hungry for the official RPi foundation approved 2.4 amp power supply, but the problem went away after I substituted a Motorola Turbo Power 25 which is capable of 2.85 amps at 5 volts:Īfter connecting an HDMI cable to a display, I was in business and found the Id Pi program to be pretty much identical looking to the JRMC Windows or Mac versions, which made set-up easy as I'm already familiar with this application.Īnd somewhat to my surprise, it runs perfectly with no discernible lag or fudginess, great work by the developer in refining this application to run on such humble hardware. The audiophile in me couldn't resist adding a little bit of ERS cloth tape to the Ethernet, USB, HDMI, and DC power input ports: I chose an all metal case for superior heat dissipation, the duinoCase B+, and applied small heat sinks to the CPU and GPU. This time I decided to try a more involved program to see how it would run, and while it must be very slimmed down code as compared to the Windows or Mac versions of JRMC, this would still be a stiffer challenge to the ARM Cortex A53 based 1.2GHz CPU and 1GB of available RAM on the RPi3 board. I've built several different RPi3 based music players and servers, in each case using a thin-Linux variant that maximizes the limited available hardware horsepower. I decided on JRiver Media Center 22, they now offer a preloaded SanDisk microSD card with a Debian Linux based version of JRMC22 for $39, called Id Pi. This was too good to pass up, I'm not sure why Arrow would be willing to give away Raspberry Pi 3B boards, but I took them up on it and then planned my next use case. I recently saw a special offer from Arrow Electronics for the Raspberry Pi 3B board at 30% off, including overnight FedEx shipping, so $25 all in.
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