I had an idea for a project I was going to put a RPi inside a permanently installed sound syste...

[G+_Ben Yanke]

I had an idea for a project...I was going to put a RPi inside a permanently installed sound system which can then both record audio at certain times each week (with some sort of auto-transfer mechanism, of course), as well as potentially stream audio out. Is that doable or is the Raspberry Pi under powered for a project like that and don't even think about it?

[G+_610GARAGE]

I don't think the pi would be underpowered for that. I run rdp on rpi without much stress. And people use it to stream video. Recording audio is nothing comparatively.

 

Not sure how you were thinking of transferring the audio, but a NFS share would probably work quite well for that. Then you're not stressing the sd card with a lot of read/writes.

[G+_Ben Yanke]

It would be offsite, so I might even just do an SSH transfer with cron.

[G+_Ben Reese]

Sounds like a pretty light load for the Pi and could probably even get by with a Pi Zero for the smaller size.

[G+_Ben Yanke]

Also, another potential problem: how does a sound card work in Linux? If I am doing an audio stream out, can I still record, or is Linux like windows in that with some types of devices (like cameras) and only one program can use a device?

[G+_610GARAGE]

Steve Wolf Yea, sorry. I should have specified pi2. But I'm pretty sure they used pi1 for  home media thing. I can't think of what its called.

 

Ben Yanke Another thing to think about is whether the pi audio will be good enough. I don't have much experience with it, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't sound great. Maby look into an external audio if you need good audio.

[G+_Travis Hershberger]

A Pi with one of those USB sound adapters should do just fine.  Use the built in audio adapter to connect a mic and the USB for output.

 

Let's be honest here, unless you plan to spend $300 on a mic, the audio quality on the input side will be just fine.