chuco61 / jukebox

jukebox

Restore the functionality of a jukebox.

Info

The plan

Stage 1

Hide a Raspberry Pi with WiFi dongle and external speakers in the ample guts of the Jukebox.

Using a web interface you can select which song to play.

Stage 2

Connect to the selection switches (via an arduino?) to allow songs to be selected the old fashined way.

Stage 3

Add and amplifier and reuse the original speakers.

Installation

Stage 1 is based on a Raspberry Pi with a standard Raspian image.

packages

You need the sox package with all the supported formats to play the audio files, as well as a few utilities:

sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-all sox screen markdown html2ps

and a web-server:

sudo apt-get install apache2

Yes, I know apache is overkill, but I'm familiar with it ...

Probaly git too (see below):

sudo apt-get install git

files

Clone this repo into ~/GIT/junkebox:

mkdir ~/GIT
cd ~/GIT
git clone https://github.com/sprinkmeier/jukebox.git

Install the CGI script:

cd ~/GIT/jukebox
sudo cp --update --verbose ./jukebox.cgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
sudo ln --symbolic /dev/shm/songs.csv /var/jukebox/

and override the 'welcome' page to redirect to it:

sudo cp --update --verbose index.html /var/www/index.html

Someplace to store the audio files:

sudo mkdir /var/jukebox/
sudo chown www-data.www-data /var/jukebox/
sudo ln --symbolic --force /var/jukebox/ /var/www/

The link allows you to download files.

autostart

Edit the auto-start file:

sudo vi /etc/rc.local

To include the following:

screen -d -m su - pi -c '/home/pi/GIT/jukebox/jukebox.py'