Pi MusicBox is the Swiss Army Knife of streaming music on the Raspberry Pi. With Pi MusicBox, you can create a cheap (Sonos-like) standalone streaming music player for Spotify and other online music services.
- Headless audio player based on Mopidy. Just connect your speakers or headphones - no need for a monitor.
- Quick and easy setup with no Linux knowledge required.
- Stream music from Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music and YouTube.
- Listen to podcasts (with iTunes and Podder directories) as well as online radio (TuneIn, Dirble and Soma FM).
- Play MP3/OGG/FLAC/AAC music from your SD card, USB drives and network shares.
- Remote controllable with a choice of browser-interfaces or with an MPD-client (e.g. MPDroid for Android).
- AirTunes/AirPlay and DLNA streaming from your smartphone, tablet or computer.
- Support for all kinds of USB, HifiBerry and IQ Audio soundcards.
- Wi-Fi support (WPA, Raspbian supported Wi-Fi adapters only)
- Last.fm scrobbling.
- Spotify Connect support.
The current v0.7 image is an incremental update of v0.6 and can be generated as follows:
# 1. Install prerequisite packages (probably not an exhaustive list, sorry....) sudo apt-get install git coreutils e2fsprogs zerofree util-linux qemu-arm-static # 2. Download and unzip very latest project source files (use master.zip for current release) wget https://github.com/pimusicbox/pimusicbox/archive/develop.zip unzip develop.zip && mv pimusicbox-develop src # 3. Download and unzip base v0.6 image wget https://github.com/pimusicbox/pimusicbox/releases/download/v0.6.0/pimusicbox-0.6.0.zip unzip pimusicbox-0.6.0.zip && mv pimusicbox-0.6.0/*.img musicbox.img # 4. Enlarge image so there is free space to work in ./src/makeimage.sh musicbox.img bigger # 5. Run update script within base image (requires sudo). ./src/chroot.sh musicbox.img create_musicbox0.7.sh # 6. Go have a cup of tea/coffee while you wait... # 7. Shrink the image and other finishing touches ./src/makeimage.sh musicbox.img finalise
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Copyright 2013-2017 Wouter van Wijk and contributors.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the file LICENSE for the full license text.