Getting started with Musicbox

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I have just bought a pi 3+ and as I am new I just need to know how to start up with Musicbox. This is what I have done so far and some questions?:

*As the pi was new, I put Rasbian OS advanced onto it. That got me a working unit.

  • I now need to put put Musicbox on the SD card. So how do I do that?

  • Do I image Musicbox onto an SD and not put Rasbian. I did that but the pi does not boot.

  • I then thought that maybe instal Win32 Imager and put Musicbox img onto the Rasbian SD but then noting happens and no boot up.

  • I am fresh out of options so is there anyone who can tell me where Ii have gone wrong?

Many thanks.

Steve.

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Should be the option, but Musicbox is quite old now, you might be better off installing Mopidy and any other bits you want onto the card with Raspbian OS installed.

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Thanks Steve. The object of the exercise is to stream an online radio station 24/7. As it will be an unattended site, I need it to run automatically.
So if I image Rasbian onto the SD, how do I put Mopidy onto that? Is it an exe? This is where I need some help as I am still getting to grips with the process.

Thanks.
Steve W

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I’m not sure how you would do this.

Once you’ve got the card set up and running have a look here

However probably best to have a look through the docs to familiarise yourself with the process.

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Thanks for that. A lot of this is uncharted territory for me but I will read and see what I do not understand. Much appreciated.

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I suppose, if you have Mopidy-mpd installed, you run an mpc command on boot to start the stream.

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The autoplay function of Musicbox would have provided this. But that same functionality (a script that runs at boot and calls some mpc commands) can be implemented on any system. I would not use Musicbox for any new project, it’s much too outdated. Do as @Steve_Lambert suggests.

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Thanks Guys,

I am not up to play with this type of pc work so it should be interesting.

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A lot of those instructions are totally alien to me. Is there something that I can understand?

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I know the feeling, most of it is still like that to me.
Do you have a terminal open? Follow the link in the earlierpost for installation then copy and paste the first line ;
wget -q -O - https://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
and enter or return. then do the same with the following highlighted lines on the page down as far as No 4
You’ll want it running as a service - this means Mopidy will start on boot, so go to this page
and I usually use Service Management with SystemMD
Reboot then run sudo systemctl status mopidy to check Mopidy is running.
I think thats it, but without doing it myself I’m not completely sure.

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Funnily enough I copied/wrote a script for autoplay with spotify on boot [here] I’d forgotton all about it. I guess that could be used for to start the stream.

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Thanks Steve. I will give that a whirl over the weekend.

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