mherwig / gplaymusic-pi

A Google Play Music frontend for the Raspberry Pi

gplaymusic-pi

NOTE: This fork isn't maintained anymore, please have a look at the original project https://github.com/fredley/play-pi

gplaymusic-pi provides a web-frontend for browsing and playing music from a Google Play Music library. Installed on a RaspberryPi that you usally only access remotely, gmusicplay-pi allows you to turn your Raspi into a jukeboy playing music from your Google Play Music library without the need of having a VNC session for browsing songs.

gplaymusic-pi is a fork of play-pi by Tom Medley (fredley) and is probably less stable and less flawless in its current state than the original project. I strongly recommend to check out the original project first, while gplaymusic-pi is more for testing purposes in its current state.

Note: Don't expect anything to be finished. Some features might be missing. When gplaymusic-pi gets usable enough I will create a development branch for testing and breaking stuff.

Installation instructions (derived from the original project):

• Assuming you've got the Pi set up as you want, you'll need to install the required tools: sudo apt-get install mpd mpc python-mpd python-pip screen I personally use python-mpd2
• Test that mpc is working by entering the command mpc. You should see output like volume: 80% repeat: off random: off single: off consume: off
• Next you'll need to use pip to install Django and gmusicapi: sudo pip install django sudo pip install git+git://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API.git@develop
• Now clone the gplaymusic-pi repository: git clone git://github.com/mherwig/gplaymusic-pi.git cd play-pi
• Create a file called local_settings.py in the same folder as settings.py. Add the following lines: GPLAY_USER="[e-mail]" GPLAY_PASS="your-password" It's highly recommended you use an application specific password for this.
• Now set up the Django app with the following commands. This will create the database: ./manage.py syncdb During this step you will be asked for a superuser name and password. You can use these to access the admin.
• Now sync your Google Music library. This can take a very long time (depends on the library size): ./manage.py init_gplay
• You're now ready to run the server! Start up a screen by typing screen. Running the server in the screen means that it will keep running after ssh is disconnected. sudo ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080
• You should now be able to access gplaymusic-pi from your web browser, point it at the IP of your Pi followed by the port.
• Note that starting the server on any other port requires you to change the settings.py accordingly.
• For better performance I suggest to use nginx and uwsgi. You find a pretty good tutorial here