Olive One Music Server

In 2014, I bought two Olive Ones on Indiegogo, mainly for its resemblance to an Apple product and the touchscreen. If my memory is correct it took more than a year for delivery. The Olive One has a clean industrial design with a brushed aluminium chassis and a small touchscreen where album art is displayed. Internally it has a SSD on which approximately my music library of 2000+ CDs are stored. The Olive is located in another room. It is connected via WiFi to my Yamaha Musicast streaming amplifier where it appears as a Network drive.

The UI - based on a Low Res touchscreen- which seemed advanced in 2014 now looks outdated. The last firmware update was about 5 years ago. The accompanying Android app is no longer supported and is no longer available on Google Play.

Olive which is no longer in business used to make very expensive music servers based on PC parts and a touch screen. When it was launched, a lot of features like possible integration with streaming music providers like Spotify was promised. Alas, it was never implemented.

The Olive One has a built in 25Wpc Class D digital amplifier with speaker connections at the back. The Olive One can be used as a stand alone music system, when the Android app was available it could be controlled remotely. Now I use the Olive One has a network drive on my Yamaha Musicast streaming amplifier. Control is via the Musicast app which can be downloaded in iOS, android, MacOS and Windows. Although it is connected via Wi-Fi, there are no noticeable lags in performing searches on artists and albums. But I generally prefer to search albums on the networked Olive One via folder.

At the back besides the speaker connections are a SPDIF digital out for connecting to an external DAC, an Ethernet port for wired Internet and a USB port for backup of the music library stored in the internal SSD.