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Hi Fidelity

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I have been on a quest.  The quest initially seemed a simple one. Find a way of transferring all my physical music to electronic storage in one place, where I and others can play it around the house. Seems like a simple requirement doesn't it? However, for some reason industry does not seem to have caught up with my needs. So let me explain.. The Holy Grail The main place I listen to music is in my car. The car has a brilliant system where I load music/podcasts to an SD card and plug it in. This gives me enough content variation to make any journey viable (especially on days I wish to avoid the radio) I also have a whole stack of CDs.  My last dedicated CD player hi-fi disappeared many years ago, and I never felt the need to replace it. This meant that they are just lying around the house gathering dust. Therefore, I finally decided to do something about it.   The obvious solution was to rip the CDs onto an SD card and put them through some sort of player. I did not ...
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Getting a NVME card ready

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    Ok, the next challenge. Installing the software Now there are an easy way to do this, and hard ways. This is the hard way. Why not take the easy way?  Well, you may have noticed, people like me are masochists looking for a hit. This is what keeps us going. Also, this is the learning curve. It is all very good, to have tools automate everything, but when the poo hits the rotating object, it is good to know why things work We will break down this into 3 stages 1. Install the Pi OS 2.  Get the M.2 NVME board recognized 3. Install the Pi OS onto it To do this, I largely followed To do this, I followed this tutorial . However, there were some issues, so we will work through them Step 1.Install Pi OS   Note: you must do this step before you build your Argon box, because you cannot access SD card slot from outside the case    Note:  use a reasonable size card (e.g 32 GB) since we need to load an OS image onto it The 1st step is to install o...
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