Subj : Re: Media Centers
To   : Chicken Head
From : Ron Lauzon
Date : Sun Oct 27 2019 08:24:00

-=> Chicken Head wrote to All <=-

 CH> So just a general question here...who is using Linux as a "media
 CH> center" of sorts?  For...well, years now...I have been using Logitech
 CH> Squeezebox devices as my main media boxes.  The problem with this is
 CH> the damnable "Logitech Media Center"...formerly squeezecenter.
 CH> Logitech no longer supports any of it and I think maybe only one person
 CH> in the world is currently maintaining the thing. It was written in Perl
 CH> and every time the OS updates perl...it breaks (don't ask me my
 CH> opinions on perl).

I took a Raspberry PI 3 with a 3.5" screen case.
https://www.banggood.com/Geekcreit-3_5-inch-TFT-LCD-Touch-Screen-Protective-Cas
e-Touch-Pen-Kit-For-Raspberry-Pi-3B3B2B-p-1391232.html?rmmds=myorder&cur_wareho
use=USA

I loaded standard Raspian headless with mpd/mpc on it.
I then NFS mounted the music directory from my server.

I wrote up a simple Python program using tkinter to create a control panel for
the 3.5" touch screen.

Any complex control can be handled by using an mpc client for Android (which
are mostly free).

I hooked it to some nice speakers and, voila, media player that works just as
good (if not better) than my old Squeezebox setup.

 
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