Seeking lower cost alternatives to Berkeley Audio Design Alpha USB converter

@pengun - thanks. I hope to hear more from you in a week or so.

I don’t stream either. My intention is similar to yours except all my devices run Linux.

Here’s the list of Pi software I know about so far:

- [moOde™ audio player](https://moodeaudio.org/) - seems to be completely free & open source. Good reviews. Some say it is superior to Volumio.
- [Volumio - The Audiophile Music Player](https://volumio.org/) - free version has limited features- [RoPieee | Software](https://ropieee.org/software/) - seems to be free
- [RoPieee | XL](https://ropieee.org/xl/) - not sure if this is a premium feature
- MPD+Rompr
- [Mopidy](https://mopidy.com/) - Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, TuneIn, and more. You can edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.
- [Pi MusicBox - A Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music player for the Raspberry Pi, with remote control](https://www.pimusicbox.com/) - based on Mopidy.- [musikcube](https://musikcube.com/)- [RuneAudio for Raspberry Pi](http://www.rpimusicplayer.com/)- [Patchbox OS - Raspberry Pi OS for Audio Projects](https://blokas.io/patchbox-os/)- [MinimServer features](https://minimserver.com/features.html)- [GitHub - airsonic/airsonic: Airsonic, a Free and Open Source community driven media server (fork of Subsonic and Libresonic)](https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic)
- [openmediavault - The open network attached storage solution](https://www.openmediavault.org/)- [Music Player Daemon](https://www.musicpd.org/) - Raspbian version available. Works with tons of clients: https://www.musicpd.org/clients/

I should fire up a Slackware partition. It would be easier to network, certainly. ;)
Been playing games, and only installed the dose on my new machine. ;)

@pengun - I tried sending you a PM, but the site crashes when I try.
I have a Linux file server and I use NFS v4. All my clients (desktops, laptops) run Linux. Even my phone runs Manjaro Linux. Like you, I vastly prefer working with Linux networking and really everything else too.
Please keep me updated on your progress with your Pi2AES. This is the way I want to go in the future. A Pi will fit perfectly into my environment.