Audiolinux installation guide

[Alkyogre]

Introduction

Because at another topic there was a lot of confusion about howto install: here my guide how to install. To be honest the audiolinux site is very complicated with a lot of text etcetera, and sadly some installation lines even refer to old files which are changed to new names. With this I hope more people will be able to install this piece of software.

Materials and methods
- The audiolinux file. You can choose between headless and lxqt. I strongly recommend V3 headless. With headless you can scroll manually to a menu and download the protocols you want, for instance Roon, Audirvana, Jriver. After buying it takes some time before they will send it, but you will get the download file quick.
- Linux. Sorry to say this: but for audiolinux, you need another linux at another harddisc. An alternative is to burn a try-out linux on a USB-stick. I choose Ubuntu for this: you can download it here
Download Ubuntu Desktop | Download | Ubuntu
- After this download you can flash it to a bootable USB with balena etcher balenaEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives
- The USB disc could be used to try out Ubuntu and with that try out it is already possible to make the commands to burn audiolinux. I made a second boot harddisc
- An empty SSD which is hooked in your audiophile pc

After linux starts up, it is time to install audiolinux

- first of all: ubuntu does not have a root password yet. Open a terminal and type: sudo passwd Then choose a password and repeat it. If you restart this terminal type: su followed by the password to gain installation rights.
- next thing to do in the terminal is install gparted you need that for later: for that type: sudo apt-get install gparted
- download from the link in your e-mail the file you got from audiolinux. The download is stored in your Downloads folder
- in your terminal type: cd Downloads
- then type: ls (you will see the downloaded file, mine is called audiolinux_v3_531.img.gz
- then type: sha256sum audiolinux_v3_531.img.gz

now you need to verify the destination location from your empty SSD: to know this start gparted. type in your terminal: gparted
In the upper right corner you see a harddisc, you can click it and go to the other harddisc. Locations all start with /dev/ . Mine is called /dev/nvme0n1

- close gparted and go back to the terminal
- now type: gunzip -c audiolinux_v3_531.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M status=progress

last part of the installation is to expand the ext4 size. Without this: audiolinux cannot install anything.

go to the terminal and type: gparted
here: go to the right drive and resize the ext4 space, simply with the right mouseclick and after resizing save.

- shut down linux and remove the linux installation disc or installation USB. Select your new installed drive as boot drive in the bios and it starts

- After booting type menu and you see the menu where you can easily download a lot of audioprograms like Roon

Good luck.

 

[Darrel]

Introduction

Because at another topic there was a lot of confusion about howto install: here my guide how to install. To be honest the audiolinux site is very complicated with a lot of text etcetera, and sadly some installation lines even refer to old files which are changed to new names. With this I hope more people will be able to install this piece of software.

Materials and methods
- The audiolinux file. You can choose between headless and lxqt. I strongly recommend V3 headless. With headless you can scroll manually to a menu and download the protocols you want, for instance Roon, Audirvana, Jriver. After buying it takes some time before they will send it, but you will get the download file quick.
- Linux. Sorry to say this: but for audiolinux, you need another linux at another harddisc. An alternative is to burn a try-out linux on a USB-stick. I choose Ubuntu for this: you can download it here
Download Ubuntu Desktop | Download | Ubuntu
- After this download you can flash it to a bootable USB with balena etcher balenaEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives
- The USB disc could be used to try out Ubuntu and with that try out it is already possible to make the commands to burn audiolinux. I made a second boot harddisc
- An empty SSD which is hooked in your audiophile pc

After linux starts up, it is time to install audiolinux

- first of all: ubuntu does not have a root password yet. Open a terminal and type: sudo passwd Then choose a password and repeat it. If you restart this terminal type: su followed by the password to gain installation rights.
- next thing to do in the terminal is install gparted you need that for later: for that type: sudo apt-get install gparted
- download from the link in your e-mail the file you got from audiolinux. The download is stored in your Downloads folder
- in your terminal type: cd Downloads
- then type: ls (you will see the downloaded file, mine is called audiolinux_v3_531.img.gz
- then type: sha256sum audiolinux_v3_531.img.gz

now you need to verify the destination location from your empty SSD: to know this start gparted. type in your terminal: gparted
In the upper right corner you see a harddisc, you can click it and go to the other harddisc. Locations all start with /dev/ . Mine is called /dev/nvme0n1

- close gparted and go back to the terminal
- now type: gunzip -c audiolinux_v3_531.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M status=progress

last part of the installation is to expand the ext4 size. Without this: audiolinux cannot install anything.

go to the terminal and type: gparted
here: go to the right drive and resize the ext4 space, simply with the right mouseclick and after resizing save.

- shut down linux and remove the linux installation disc or installation USB. Select your new installed drive as boot drive in the bios and it starts

- After booting type menu and you see the menu where you can easily download a lot of audioprograms like Roon

Good luck.

Thanks so much.

I ordered audiolinux lxqt Sunday. I've been trying to install it with a 64g samsung usb bootable drive using balenaEther to a 256g mSata III ssd drive I have. I've been unable to get the program to the internal mSata III drive. I now I know why. I have a couple of days to try to get this up and running myself. Thursday a guy is coming by to install it. I thought I might give it a try. With your well written instructions I think I can still give it another round of tries!

 

[Alkyogre]

Yes Installing directly via Balena Etcher would fail. In short you need first a normal linux distro and then give the commands to install to a separate empty drive.

The lxqt version is by the way an environment that looks like a normal linux with audiophilic settings. I don’t know if you have to install roon via the usual linux installation guide or that there is a graphical button for it.

Good luck installing, and please share some pics if you have some issues installing

 

[Darrel]

Reading from the Auiolinux website installing from a bootable drive to a non linux computer is available. Either from a Windows or Mac system using their linked software. It clearly isn't that easy. When I ordered the Audiolinux access to its program I got a text asking which version I wanted. I responded that I wasn't sure which would suit my needs more. So, the lxqt link was provided. I'm guessing for me I am better off waiting until tomorrow when a professional can hopefully get me up and running. I'll report back with the good and the bad later.

 

[Darrel]

It took awhile. But, the software guy came by today. He was suppose to be here Saturday. But, our phones didn't cooperate.

I got Audiolinux installed on my internal drive. And a backup drive has it also. I will say the audio has lost what I call a upper frequency edge. It just didn't have a quietness to the Roon music under Windows 10 running Roon. But, after the Audiolinux installation. The sound is much calmer and any edge I heard is gone. Getting it to my i7 Sonictransporter wasn't easy for me a non Linux user. I think this is well worth a consideration if you are running Roon on a dedicated computer.