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You will need:
- Raspberry Pi
I used a Model B for the Ethernet port. You'll need to find how to add wifi yourself if you use a Model A
- USB Sound Card
I used a Soundblaster Play USB as it was cheap at my local Canada Computers. (Sound quality isn't bad either)
- SD Card
Minimum 2Gb. As long as you can install raspbian. After I was done, I only used 1.1Gb.
Step 1: Install Raspbian
Head over to www.raspbian.org and get your brand new Pi running with it.
However you choose to install doesn't matter.
Just get a basic system with network/ssh access going (don't install the "Debian Desktop Environment") and come back for step 2.
Step 2: Add software
For there to be music, we need some software to play it. As root run:
apt-get install mpd cifs-utils alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss oss-compat alsa-plugins
This installs:
- CIFS Utilities. Useful for mounting SMB shares (coincidentally where my music is located)
- MPD. Music Player Daemon, the root of this project.
- ALSA. Useful if you want sound output.
Now that this is all installed, let's get some music playing!
Step 3: Configure MPD
Configuring MPD isn't too ridiculous. Just read the comments and google for the more challenging questions.
Fire up your editor of choice on /etc/mpd.conf.
Essential config items are:
music_directory = <dir> # Set this to your library
bind_to_address “any” # Useful if not a static IP
# Following allow autodiscovery over zeroconf/avahi
zeroconf_enabled “yes”
zerconf_name “Boombox MPD”
# Audio output for my sound card
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "My ALSA Device"
options "dev=dmixer"
device "plug:dmix"
}
mixer_type “software” # My soundcard mixer is in software
Step 4: Just add Music
Add the following to /etc/fstab to auto-mount a network share on boot:
//X.Y.Z.W/Music /mnt/Music cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=077 0 0
With /root/.credentials being a file that contains:
username=<your username>
password=<your password>
and X.Y.Z.W being the IP of your file server.
Run as root to mount your share:
Now you should have access to your music!