flying-sheep / pi-musicbox

An image (SD-card) to turn the Raspberry Pi into an easy to use MusicBox with Spotify playback and AirTunes streaming

Pi MusicBox

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 music streams.

This is the code used to create the image (download from www.pimusicbox.com)

Features

• Headless audio player based on Mopidy (no need for a monitor), streaming music from Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music, Podcasts (with iTunes, gPodder directories), MP3/OGG/FLAC/AAC, Webradio (with TuneIn, Dirble directories), Subsonic, Soma FM.
• Remote control it with a nice browser-interface or with an MPD-client like MPDroid for Android
• Also includes AirTunes/AirPlay and DLNA streaming from your phone, tablet (iOS and Android)
• USB Audio support, for all kinds of USB soundcards, speakers, headphones
• Wifi support (WPA, for Raspbian supported wifi-adapters)
• No need for tinkering, no need to use the Linux commandline
• Play music files from the SD Card, USB, Network.
• Last.FM scrobbling.
• Most HifiBerry, IQ Audio soundcards supported

Usage

The files (modified or new) for the system are in the directory /filechanges. In the root you'll find a description on how to build it and the build scripts.

Project resources

• Source code
• Issue tracker
• Development branch tarball

Changelog

Look at the file /filechanges/boot/config/changes.txt for a full overview.

v0.5.1 beta

• Replaced gmediarender with upmpdcli for better and more stable upnp streaming support.
• Fixed stuttering of Spotify at the start of a track
• Bugfixes for webclient interface (popups work better now)
• Better soundcard detection
• Enable/disable Shairport and DLNA streaming
• SSH/Dropbear enhancements
• Bugfixes

0.5.1 alpha2 - 6 october 2014

• Mostly bugfixes.
• Better support for albumart in webclient

0.5.1 alpha

• Google Music Works a lot better now, including search, albums, artists, coverart, browsing
• Support for cards from IQ Audio, newer HifiBerry, model B+
• More responsive mopidy, version 0.19.4
• Youtube integration
• Nicer webclient with new homescreen
• Play streams from youtube, spotify, soundcloud, radio by pasting an url
• Search music per service
• SoundCloud search won't block other services anymore

0.5 8 july 2014

• Updated Google Music, SoundCloud
• Added missing webclient fonts
• Playing files from the network enhanced
• Disabled Samba printing
• Small changes, bugfixes
• Faster USB, no more stuttering for some DACs
• HifiBerry Digi support is not complete :( See pimusicbox#100
• SoundCloud can break searching

0.5 beta2

• Google Music works again!
• Fixed bugs in webinterface
• Networking bug fixed
• Icons for media sources in webinterface
• Search fixed
• Added codecs for internetradio (gstreamer-plugins bad and ugly)
• Hifiberry Digi supported
• More wifi-usb sticks supported, I hope
• Bigger package (because of gstreamer plugins)

0.5 beta1

• Best release evah! Way less stuttering of sound!
• DLNA/UPNP streaming works out of the box (gmediarender-resurect)
• Fixed settings page, webclient, search bugs
• Added Internet Archive and Soma FM support
• Wifi will autoconnect to an open network if found
• Reverted back to old MusicBox system, new kernel (with better USB support). And thanks to that:
• Smaller package
• Monitoring of crashed daemons Shairport, Mopidy, Gmediarender
• Detection of crashed Pi (watchdog)
• Latest kernel (with a lot of fixes for USB)
• Whoosh backend for local files (should be faster)
• Updated Podcast
• Gmusic does not work reliable (yet)
• Upnp/Airplay/Mopidy cannot play at the same time. Don't do that, it can crash the services and this could need a reboot!

0.5 alpha4

• Better mopidy performance
• Bugfixes

0.5 alpha3

• New Settings page for easily selecting most settings of MusicBox!!
• Based on kernel from Volumio. Works nicely!
• Mopidy is more reliable now (thanks to new kernel?)
• Webclient updated to (way) better support browsing
• Podcast working, including browsing podcasts from iTunes, gpodder
• UPNP/DLNA Streaming using gmediarender-resurrect
• Seperate webserver (lighttp) on startup
• Jukebox functionality included with aternative webclient JukePi. Great for the office!
• Also included alternative webclient Moped
• Larger image. Only fits on a 2G SD for now :(
• Google Music All Access working again
• TuneIn, Dirble, Podcasts enabled by default
• Firewall disabled for now
• Mopidy extensions Radio-de/somafm/internetarchive not working (yet)
• Upnp/Airplay/Mopidy cannot play at the same time. Don't do that, it can crash the services and you need to reboot!

0.5 alpha2 - March 7 2014

• Fix for networking problems (I hope!)
• Automatically play a stream at startup
• Webclient: Easier to add radiostations from Dirble/TuneIn browsing to the favorites in the radio section
• Webclient fixes
• Bugfixes (like samba/cifs mount, wifi, settings.ini)
• Disbled login for musicbox user. No need anymore
• Soma FM works
• Fixed partition size
• motd ascii art
• Resize bug fixed
• Check added for fat partition

0.5 alpha - March 1 2014

• Mopidy 0.18.x, with lots of enhancements
• Browsing support for local media files, Spotify, Dirble, etc
• Dirble, Subsonic, Internet Archive Sound, TuneIn Radio support
• First steps to support Podcasts, SomaFM, Rad.io/Radio.de/Radio.fr (does not work (fully) yet)
• Better webradio (Mopidy can read m3u and asx files now!)
• Quick hack to easily edit default radio stations in webinterface (use radiostations.js)
• Better USB Sound, better i2s
• Settings.ini and mopidy.conf merged to one file, so you can configure Mopidy specific settings yourself easily
• Mopidy runs as a service
• More reliable networking
• Logging on startup (not totally there yet)
• Newer kernel
• Bugfixes