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Building my SqueezeNext...

I have a bit of free time on my hands - guess I need to mess with the sound system... Where I am today: The living room system is a Squeezebox Touch connected via SPDIF/RCA to an external (1st...

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RPI zero w - 3.5” waveshare touchscreen

Hi, I recently try to install a 3.5” waveshare todichscreen following this instruction for RPI 3B, everything works well until the point of the calibration, the cross appear in a corner, but the touch...

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DIY Standalone Speaker

There are philipp44's various bridge plugins which allow you to use Airplay or DLNA compatible speakers. Of which there are a few good looking. (never tested any of this, but highly recommended by...

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IR Programming

I'm hoping someone can summarise how to make an infrared remote control perform a specified function on a Squeezebox player. My scenario: I've just bought a 'oneforall' 4-in-1 remote control. The TV...

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HG Wells - The Music Machine

Made another squeezebox. Can't stop making them as it's so much fun and so easy with Raspberry pi's. It's Raspberry Pi Zero, Scroll Phat HD, PhatDAC. I've got 7 LEDs and 8 switches on the GPIO pins for...

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piCorePlayer --- switch $LANG to UTF8

Hi All, got my picoreplayer installed on Raspberry Pi3+, playing music from /mnt/music, which is a ext4 filesystem, and largely works. But: as soon as i import records with accents (`'^) in the...

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My Transporter SE is screwed.

I finally got rid of the unsightly 'handle bars'. I can provide details if anyone is interested in doing the same. Attached Images  

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Pi Server with HDD - Simple Enclosure

Hi; I thought I would share in case someone else is looking to do something similar. My LMS server is simply a Pi 3B+ in a standard case with a 2TB HDD connected. It just sits on my desk so it has been...

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piCorePlayer in a 2005 Apple iPod HiFi

Hey all, I'm looking for a little advice. I found an old Apple iPod HiFi at a thrift store for cheap and I'm looking to remove the ancient 30pin FW connector and install a small piCorePlayer+DAC inside...

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Transporter Not Playing

Yesterday my Transporter quit playing. It powers up and connects to the server. When I select a song and hit play, the display indicates Now Playing but the progress bar on the player does not advance....

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Thanks from a 6 year old

I just wanted to say a huge thanks to the dev's who put in so much time and effort into this platform. My 6 year old has been learning 'scratch' programming, so I decided yesterday to give him...

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Raspberry Pi as Bluetooth-to-USB converter?

I'm currently building an integrated amplifier based on a Hypex DLCP system and 6 channels of Hypex UcD amplification. As a long-time Squeezebox fan I'm also building in a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running pCP...

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Waveshare Game Hat - piCorePlayer - Planting a seed

Hi guys, Has anyone squeezed piCorePlayer into one of these? :) https://www.waveshare.com/game-hat.htm regards Greg

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Seeking advice on software for dedicated LMS touchscreen PC client

I have an x86 based touchscreen computer. I'm using this as a dedicated controller/player for LMS. Currently its running Windows 10 and I'm using Squeezeplay. It works pretty good for the most part but...

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Difference between Squeezebox 3 and a Touch

Hi, Might seem a daft question but i am wondering whether it might be possible to upgrade a SB3 to a touch. Reason being is that i have a SB+ which uses the guts of an SB3 and improves the digital...

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Star Wars Squeezebox Controller (Raspberry Pi Zero/Scroll pHAT HD)

Hi, Here is my Star Wars themed Squeezebox controller I have just completed. Was for one of the kid's bedroom's but can't seem to let it go. https://youtu.be/AHIFqRSVKrM It's made up of an AT-AT toy...

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Is it possible to save a playlist using a pyLMS command?

I couldn’t see a command for this but was wondering if there was a way? Thanks, Foggy

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Picoreplayer, Jivelite and Alexa Amazon

Finally, I've found a workaround to connect my picoreplayer to Alexa using broadlink rm mini 3 or harmony hub. Basically, I use the rm mini 3 to control the picoreplayer throught lirc (IR remote...

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Help PAM8203A

Hello I badly need your help I own the amplifactor PAM8302 from Adafruit: https://shop.mchobby.be/breakout/526...eur&results=40 I have a Pi zero with a Phat Dac sound card: As I use a passive...

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My RPi Button Board project

Pippin's announcement of a new tool to use buttons and rotary encoders on a Raspberry Pi inspired me have a play with hardware controls for a Pi-based player, and since I'm planning to build an...

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