Performance

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Of course the I2S DAC has nothing to do with USB, but still all data is accessed via USB (ethernet, USB stick). This shouldn't be a problem though

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BTW: did you already compare the performance of Raspberry Pi to Beaglebone Black? For example how long it takes to create a music database from a directory. Or how responsive the runeUI is.
Just interested because the BBB CPU should be twice as fast as the RPi CPU.

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BeagleBone Black is quite faster than Raspberry Pi in almost every task, and does not have critical limits on the USB bus. If you don't need more than 1 USB port and you are going to use it via Ethernet, then the BBB is a very good performance/price option.