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Single board computer as audio player?
With the huge success of single board computers over the past 5 years, I'm surprised I haven't yet seen a niche audio player using that technology. Recently it appears battery powered SBCs have got more practical.
Has anybody tried this?
The "Chip" SBC seems suitable. It supports battery power and what looks like suitable small screens. They don't sell batteries in their online shop at the moment though, and I don't think the small case there has space for a battery or screen either. Some of that may be a temporary thing, this sort of thing seems often to have variable availability because of batch manufacture.
The nice thing about SBCs is that they're really just tiny desktop machines (albeit ARM based), which means you don't need special embedded software development know-how to write software for them.
I'm tired of commercial audio players: seems the software gets worse with time since smartphones arrived...
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