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Wolfson Pi Audio Card

MichaelL65

This looks like a really good addition to the RPi. Just a few questions:

 

1. When will it be available?

2. What will it cost?

3. When will we get a technical data sheet?

 

I may be able to make it into a guitar pedal board now...

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    Well, it's getting close to a month past the planned release date. Last I heard they were working on drivers.

     

    Guys, if this is a truly open source project, the drivers will get fixed by the community. They don't need to be perfect.

  • 0 in reply to MichaelL65

    Hi Michael,

     

    sorry for the silence. The more user testing we did as we got close to the launch the more things we found that we weren't happy about. I appreciate your point on the drivers not needing to be perfect, but there are a few use cases that we really want to work out of the box.

     

    We want the board to offer playback and/or record via spdif, headset, dmics, linein. We want the audio output to utilise the full range of the codec and be programmable between 16/24 bit, 44.1/48/96/192khz

     

    It took us a bit of time to get it all working but we think we've almost cracked it. We've had to work with vendors of other parts on the board to maximise the full system performance and it's now going through user testing. Having missed one date I'm reluctant to give another ( ! ) but barring any more gotchas we should be good to start taking orders in mid Jan.

     

    We've got hardware stock in place now so we're very keen to get shipping. Sorry for the delay and thanks for the continued interest.

     

    Regards,

    Eddie

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  • 0 in reply to MichaelL65

    Hi Michael,

     

    sorry for the silence. The more user testing we did as we got close to the launch the more things we found that we weren't happy about. I appreciate your point on the drivers not needing to be perfect, but there are a few use cases that we really want to work out of the box.

     

    We want the board to offer playback and/or record via spdif, headset, dmics, linein. We want the audio output to utilise the full range of the codec and be programmable between 16/24 bit, 44.1/48/96/192khz

     

    It took us a bit of time to get it all working but we think we've almost cracked it. We've had to work with vendors of other parts on the board to maximise the full system performance and it's now going through user testing. Having missed one date I'm reluctant to give another ( ! ) but barring any more gotchas we should be good to start taking orders in mid Jan.

     

    We've got hardware stock in place now so we're very keen to get shipping. Sorry for the delay and thanks for the continued interest.

     

    Regards,

    Eddie

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  • 0 in reply to e14 Contributor

    I'm glad you're making progress, and it looks like you have created quite a handy addition to the R-Pi. Sorry if I'm coming across as impatient. I'm just anxious to get ahold of one.

     

    I'm involved in a bit of manufacturing myself at my day job, and I understand that things outside your control can make ship dates impossible, but I have also learned that communications with clients is essential when these things come up. Maybe you could post a short paragraph summary now and then about what is happening, what we can look forward to, and what you plan to do next - that sort of thing.  For myself, that would let me know you are working on it, it hasn't turned into vaporware, and you keep enthusiasm for the product when it does ship. Maybe that's overkill, but it is how I do it.