I tried RaspFi, Kodi media center, OpenELEC and others but the USB audio problems persisted. I then bought an RPi 2 Model B but the problems persisted. I tried just about everything including installing a real time kernel, but nothing seemed to help. Then, some time ago, when the RPi was still using the Linux ARM 3.x.x kernels, I updated either my kernel or firmware or both and then I got continuous audio hissing, popping, clicking and distortion. The Pi was connected via a USB cable to a Schiit Modi 2 Uber and that was connected to a Schiit Magni 2 Uber which was then connected to a Behringer XENYX 502 mixer and then, finally, the main out of the mixer was connected to my two M-Audio BX8 full-range studio monitor speakers.įor months, things were going good, and I listened to music being played from my pi without any problems, even when I was streaming music from a Windows CIFS share via JRiver Media Center.

I was primarily using the Pi as a media server, as, I was running JRiver Media Center 20 on the Pi. I eventually upgraded the SD card to a 16GB Sandisk class 10 card and I moved the root filesystem off onto a Patriot memory USB flash drive. I got my first Raspberry Pi as a Christmas present in 2014 - it was a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+.

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