A music player app that streams music from your raspberry pi within your local network. It can also discover, control and stream music to Sonos devices found in the local network.
It can be added to your home screen on iOS which makes it behave like a native app.
Don't expose this to the internet. This software also writes Folder.jpg files if they are missing to the disk.
No responsibility is accepted for corrupted media folders as a result of using this software. This software is used at your own risk, the same as any open source software.
Git clone this repo and install go.1.19 and then you can cross compile for pi (this is from windows box):
set GOOS=linux
set GOARM=5
set GOARCH=arm
go build -tags static
scp music pi@rasperrypi
Check it works properly by pointing it at a directory containing mp3 or m4a files. Pressing Ctrl-C will shutdown the server. I'm assuming you've already Mounted your USB Drive at /media/data
ssh pi@raspberrypi
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ chmod +x music
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ./music -folder=/media/data
2023/01/16 21:23:12 music server 🎵 serving music from /media/data at http://192.168.1.228:3000
2023/01/16 21:23:12 listening on :3000
On startup it will scan for music in the music folder. We generally assume music is in a <Artist>/<Album>/<Track>.<mp3/m4a> folder structure, but it can cope with stuff outside of this.
We look at the tags applied to each music file found to determine the Artist and Album. If this isn't found we fallback on assuming the folder names indicate the Artist then Album.
We then look for <Artist>/<Album>/Folder.jpg for Album Art which if you've copied over Music from Windows will generally exist. If Folder.jpg doesn't exist we first attempt to extract it from the music file metadata, then failing that we attempt to lookup the art on https://musicbrainz.org/ and download the first album that we find.
To avoid spamming musicbrainz re-requesting art for Albums that we don't find we spit out a albums.csv file to avoid querying music brainz again on restart.
Music Box will automatically try to discover sonos devices on startup. If it finds anything you'll see a log line on startup like this:
2023/01/16 21:23:12 found sonos: Office
This will mount a USB stick containing music files on boot at /media/data on your PI.
First figure out your USB key UUID - it's probably /dev/sda1
sudo lsblk
/dev/sda1: LABEL="ESD-USB" UUID="6CA4-D428" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="d3476d88-01"
then grab the UUID and stick it into /etc/fstab then mount the drive.
sudo mkdir /media/data
echo 'UUID=6CA4-D428 /media/data vfat uid=1000,umask=002,gid=users,defaults,auto,users,rw,nofail,noatime 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo mount -a
sudo mkdir /opt/musicbox
sudo cp music /opt/musicbox/music
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/music.service`
then plonk this into music.service
[Unit]
Description=Music Box
After=network-online.target media-data.mount
Requires=media-data.mount
[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/musicbox/music -folder=/media/data/Music
WorkingDirectory=/opt/musicbox
StandardOutput=inherit
StandardError=inherit
Restart=always
User=pi
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Next start the service, check it is working properly (exiting with q):
sudo systemctl start music
sudo systemctl status music
If you need to edit music.service follow these steps
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start music
Finally enable the service on boot.
sudo systemctl enable music
You can now check the status and restart, stop like this:
sudo service music status
sudo service music restart