What is MPD? Many people misunderstand what MPD is. To be able to use it, first you need to know what MPD is and how it works. MPD is a service running in the background of your computer. His primary role is to search your folders for music files, put it in some kind of […]
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Playing audio in AP-Linux with Deadbeef player

In new version of Audiophile Linux, you don’t have to use Jack for quality playback any more and automatic sample-rate works without problems. Of course we have left Jack tools if someone wants to play with it and compare the sound. In version 3.x we are mainly using two players. Cantata and Deadbeef. There is […]
Install instructions for v3.0 beta

You will have to download two files. One is live CD called Redobackup that will preform the installation. The other file is actual AP-Linux image. If you find any errors or difficulties, please leave a comment at the end of this document or notify us at info@ap-linux.com. We don’t know if this document is good […]
Matrix X-Sabre review

X-Sabre Rattling It is a Western cliché to consider Chinese products as cheaply made and of poor quality. It is also a high end audio stereotype to see Chinese audio components as low quality and having inferior sound. Meanwhile, an average Shanghai student at the age of 15 outperforms his European or North American counterpart […]
Classification of USB D/A Converters

Rational and clear information regarding audio equipment is not available today from mainstream audio literature. We only see unnecessary long treatises on high end audio, concentrating on technical descriptions and pointless analyzing of sound nuances, without any clear statements about the sounds fidelity. Just like external sound cards, USB D/A converters are an integral part […]
Lost in conversion?

Why do we compare the quality of one digital source to another? If one sounds better then the other is that important? Is high fidelity about liking or disliking a piece of equipment? I think most of us have forgotten what the goal of high fidelity is. We really need to compare our digital source […]
DAC conversion, Live musicSupported DACs

Updated on 23. October 2018. Kingrex have resolved the small bug that we have reported for UD384. It’s nice to see a company that listens to their customers. You can get the latest firmware update from their web site here. Here is the list of D/A converters that work with AP-Linux. Few of them we […]
Version V2.1 is out

We have found two bugs in V2.0. One is related to S/PDIF output and the other is related to playing music. Sometimes music just fell out of sync with jackd server and noisy sound appear. And if you played some videos with mplayer or vlc without jackd, using only ALSA, Dolby Digital or DTS via […]
Playing music without monitor and mice with VLC

Last time we introduce you to mpd – Music Player Daemon, a flexible and powerful server-side application for music playback. But as it was for some users to difficult to install and configure, and also very buggy, we decided to use some better application to play music remotely. We will explain to you how to configure […]
Install instructions V2.1

If you find any errors in documentation feel free to notify us at info@ap-linux.com. 1. Download the ISO file and burn it to DVD. md5 file is here. If you don’t know how to burn ISO file here is how you can do it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto 2. Prepare your PC for booting from CD/DVD ROM. Maybe your PC is […]