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Squeezelite problem starting in SqueezePlug on Raspberry Pi

August 19, 2014 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

SqueezePlug problem where Squeezelite refuse to start

I installed a Raspberry Pi in my livingroom as a Squeezebox music Server/Player, using a SqueezePlug [1] image. But when I tried to install the Squeezelite player, it refused to start. I tried to uninstall and reinstall, selecting another USB Audio Interface, but the problem persisted. After checking around and doing a some experimenting, I found that I could start Squeezelite manually from the terminal prompt, but if I tried to start it with the init.d or service script, it refused to start. So I started to dig around and experimented with changing the settings for Squeezelite and I found the problem…

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Raspberry Pi Car Audio System

June 23, 2014 by Jack Zimmermann 13 Comments

My Raspberry Pi Car Audio Player

A lot of people are using the excellent Linux microcomputer Raspberry Pi and install it in their cars. Usually, they use a color screen that is touch sensitive, being able to play back video and music. But I’m only interested in high-quality audio playback, being able to have all my CDs in lossless FLAC format for optimal sound quality. So a 16×2 LCD with some buttons is plenty. I now have a working system (but not yet installed in my car.) here’s a description of how I’ve built it. Most of the installations I’ve seen the use of the audio out from the Raspberry Pi, but it’s only 11-bit and sounds like crap. I want to use an external DAC, and you can get that to work in XBMC, but only menu and music output, not films. There are some HDMI to audio converters, but I’ll instead use a quality USB DAC.

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Raspberry Pi Samba Showing Wrong Size Mounted USB Disk

May 30, 2013 by Jack Zimmermann 1 Comment

After setting up a SMB Samba share on my Raspberry Pi in Squeezeplug, the size of the mounted volume showed the size of the SD-card instead of the USB hard disk. To fix it, I had to change the setup for Samba. Here’s what I did to fix it.

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Raspberry Pi Car Computer

May 17, 2013 by Jack Zimmermann 2 Comments

Update: You can find my latest update on the progress of my Raspberry Pi Car Audio System here.

I’m working on a Raspberry Pi as a music player in my car. I’m putting all my music on a SSD disk in lossless FLAC. I’ve already got hold of a 2×16 character LCD with six button from Adafruit that only uses two pins for communication with I2C. It’s easy to program and it has four different background colors.

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Raspberry Pi avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain – solved

April 6, 2013 by Jack Zimmermann 9 Comments

When setting up a Raspberry Pi with SqueezePlug, my favorite distribution for setting up a music server I always get the error message “avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain” because I have a lot of Apple equipment configured with Bonjour. To fix it, all you need to do is to edit /etc/default/avahi-daemon and change the line:

AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=1

AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0

then restart the Avahi-daemon with

sudo service avahi-daemon restart

Problem solved.