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#91 Re: Vortexbox Blues

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Does Picoreplayer connect to Tidal? If so I may be able to ease my conscience over paying a king’s ransom to Roon every month.
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#92 Re: Vortexbox Blues

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There are apps for Spotify, Qobuz, Tidal, and a few others you can install in LMS, Shane.
Settings/plugins is where they all reside.
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So it’s effectively turning the Pi into a Squeezebox?
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That's exactly what it's doing. If you add a touch screen like Tony has it's a even closer copy.
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There’s some info on adding touchscreens here:
https://www.audio-talk.co.uk/phpBB3/vie ... 8&start=30

The gist is, if you go for the official pi touchscreen it’s pretty simple.
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I used to use iPeng to control my old squeezebox. This looks worth a go.

I just had a minor revelation. All through this thread I’ve been mentally pronouncing it as Pico Replayer. Now I find on the website that it’s Pi Core Player. Makes much more sense…
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So after a long think....paradigm shift... think of the Pi as something to plug in and tap through the router.

Well I typed in the address on my laptop and up came picoreplayer, changed the setting to USB audio and did a full update. Now I can control Pi with my phone and access the full music library. It's playing as I type.

But the full library is only on the Vortxbox and that's switched off and disconnected si how on earth am I getting access to the full library!????
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Oops no it's not its the 200gig usb music folder on the Touch downstairs, which is on the network....
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#99 Re: Vortexbox Blues

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There is much still to do.

I need to specify the hard drive connected to the USB port on the Pi.

Squeezer on my phone works as a controller.

I need to understand how it all works too, so far I think I get (some of) a hazy notion scribbled on the back of a fag packet
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shane wrote: Sat Jan 15, 2022 11:08 am So it’s effectively turning the Pi into a Squeezebox?
If you want it to it can.
I turn off the Squeezebox part because there are a couple of Squeezebox Touch players on the home network.

The RasPi here just acts as a headless LMS server.
If I need another player I could set up a Chromecast Audio Player (I have one knocking about, and it works well as a client using the LMS app), or I could build up a RasPi as player.
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#101 Re: Vortexbox Blues

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After a good few hours and now a headache I have got things going to some extent. I have setup piCorePlayer on a laptop and configured the Pi.

The android app Squeezer is working fine and dandy. I have managed to get music files onto the microsdcard so LMS read and play them. I have not managed to connect the main hard drive (my library) which is plugged into the Pi. I can't see how to do this ... yet. This is most important.

- I do not like the 'off button' on the Pi and just switching on at the mains is a bit shoddy too. -

Is it possible to run everything from the Pi? Touch screen is irrelevant but I want the Pi to do everything.

Is it possible to send the music from the Pi through the network to the devialet - all digital, no analogue inputs at all on amp and speakers in the same way as for example, Apple Air Play does - very impressive! I'm okay with a DAC for the Pi; it just ins't necessary.

So far then. Suggestions warmly received and outpouring of gratitude :-)
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#102 Re: Vortexbox Blues

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What I just said.... ferrrrgeddd it. I've lost the sound output, I need the laptop running picoreplayer for LMS control panel or squeezer to work.

Then I switched off and I guess, although I thought I had switched the software off before I did a reboot and now the Pi has locked. I'm remaking a picoreplayer boot dusk and....
Start all over again.

Tedious.
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I believe you should be able to use the pi boot disk read only, but of course storing music on it will defeat that point.

When you say "aptop running picoreplayer " do you mean that, or do you mean the laptop connected to the web server on the Pi?
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#104 Re: Vortexbox Blues

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The Pi is connected ethernet into the router. The laptop is connected to the router by WiFi. Picoreplayer is running on the laptop to configure the Pi .
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#105 Re: Vortexbox Blues

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I'm giving up tonight, dinner to cook!

I was wondering if Volumio is easier better - who knows!

'all' I want is to use the Pi instead of Squeezebox and Vortexbox,
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