Autoplay All Tracks random and repeat

Pi MusicBox
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Hello, is there a way to make a entry in the settings Autoplay URI that play all mp3 files on the SD Card with random and repeat in Autostart?

Thanks from Austria!!!

2

Hi i find this, but I do not know where the file startup.sh is located I use the musicbox_v0.7.0RC4

Upon reboot I have pi Musicbox set to scan for new music. Then I edited the startup.sh so rather than adding the single song to play I have something like this:
mpc ls “Local media/Tracks” |mpc add
mpc random on
mpc repeat on
mpc play

Version 0.5.4 pi musicbox

Maybe there is a more elegant way to make that happen.

3

sudo nano /opt/musicbox/startup.sh

4

I can not make it, someone knows how it goes, step by step

5

The location of that file has not changed. Your own step by step instructions are still 100% valid.

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Hi kingosticks, to be fair I have tried using the info that Bernhard found and including it in startup.sh and I could not get it to work.
It works fine as a bash script and entered into the terminal it also works, but no matter what I tried it would not work in the startup.sh.
I haven’t looked at it for a few weeks as it’s been a while since Bernhard asked the original query and I thought he may have found an alternative method.

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Ok, cheers for the follow up, I’ll try them and see what’s going wrong. Presumably there’s an error message in the log. It certainly wasn’t supposed to have changed!

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Well there you go - after messing about with it this morning works fine now. I think I was probably overthinking it before.
I commented out the existing mpc add and mpc play but I guess they could be removed completely.
Better get back and do some actual work now!! Good luck Bernhard

   if [ $waittime -le $INI__musicbox__autoplaymaxwait ]
    then
        echo "Mopidy startup complete, playing $INI__musicbox__autoplay"
        mpc ls "Local media/Tracks" |mpc add
            mpc random on
    mpc repeat on
    mpc play

#mpc add “$INI__musicbox__autoplay”

mpc play

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Hi Bernhard, I think I can see why you are having problems.

I have started with a fresh copy of Musicbox

You need to select a track for autoplay after first boot up in "Settings-Musicbox-Autoplay URI on the Web interface
Reboot and the selected track should play.
Go back to Settings-Musicbox-Autoplay URI and remove the song.

SSH in and go to sudo nano /opt/musicbox/startup.sh go down almost to bottom and make the changes listed in previous post. (I would save a back up of startup.sh first)

Reboot and it should start playing your tracks.

It appears that once you have selected a track in autoplay the system keeps on recognising that part of the bootup process - else it seems to ignore it. After the first time you can make changes to startup.sh as you wish.
Hope this helps.

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Hello Thanks you are all so helpful!

I am a beginner, and my English also.
where I must build in the source code

Greetings from salzburg

Thanks Steve!

if [ $waittime -le $INI__musicbox__autoplaymaxwait ]
then
echo “Mopidy startup complete, playing $INI__musicbox__autoplay”
mpc ls “Local media/Tracks” |mpc add
mpc random on
mpc repeat on
mpc play

#mpc add “$INI__musicbox__autoplay”

mpc play

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Of course, you are right on the money there, Steve. You need to set the autoplay setting to something (literally any non-empty value will do) else that part of the startup code will be skipped. For that reason I don’t think you want to be removing the autoplay value afterwards, if that still works then that’s actually a bug.

We need a more user-friendly way to have this configurable. I’m open to suggestions.

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[quote=“kingosticks, post:11, topic:1648”]
You need to set the autoplay setting to something
[/quote] Frustratingly simple when you think about it - still took me ages to round the long way

Quite right about the autoplay value, something needs to be in there. For now I have just put ‘Remove this text if you don’t want autoplay’

I’m not sure if it’s a problem or not, as the Pi is designed to be permanently on, the reboot and autoplay issue probably doesn’t occur very often.