![]() From the Roku to the Chromecast, there is no shortage of cheap devices to fling your audio and video anywhere you please. We are truly living in the golden age of media streaming. Posted in digital audio hacks Tagged ESP, slimproto, Squeezebox Meanwhile we’ve covered many Squeezebox implementations, including ones on the Raspberry Pi, and the PogoPlug. You can find Logitech Media Server from its download page, and give this device a try. It has two options for playback that both require a little bit of extra hardware, an I2S DAC for uncompressed streams or a VS1053 codec module for compressed ones, but neither of those need be expensive. The software can be found on GitHub, and comes with the warning that it’s an early proof-of-concept rather than a polished release. Now you can create a network player on about as cheap hardware as it is possible to find, because has produced a client for the ESP32 and ESP8266. One of the players in this market was Logitech with their Squeezebox line of products, and while the original hardware may have been discontinued it remains very much alive among its dedicated userbase due to the free nature of the Logitech Media Server software and implementations of the slimproto streaming protocol in players. Streaming music may now come from somewhere in the cloud to an app on your phone and be sent to the client built in to almost every entertainment device you own, but there was a time when the bleeding edge lay in dedicated streaming device that connected to your existing set-up. Posted in digital audio hacks, Raspberry Pi Tagged audio streaming, e-ink, media player, nas, openscad, Squeezebox Many of which have been powered by the Raspberry Pi, but even the ESP8266 and ESP32 have gotten in on the action recently. Over the years, we’ve seen a number of SqueezeBox replacements. He’s written the software to plug into Logitech’s media player back-end to retain compatibility with the not-quite-dead-yet SqueezeBox, but we imagine the code could be adapted to whatever digital media scheme you’re using. Software he’s written for the Raspberry Pi shows the album information and cover art on the display while the music is playing, and the current time and weather forecast when it’s idle. He added a WaveShare e-Paper 5.83″ display and mounted it in a picture frame. While the case was definitely a step in the right direction, wasn’t done yet. We especially like that he took the time to add all of the internal components to the render so he could be sure everything fit before bringing the design into the corporeal world. We generally associate this tool with 3D printing, but here he’s exporting each individual panel as an SVG file so they can be cut out. The Raspberry Pi 4 and HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro live inside of a wooden laser cut case that designed with OpenSCAD. While most of us probably would have tried to make something that looked like a traditional piece of audio gear, he took his design is a somewhat more homey direction. didn’t necessarily want his replacement player to actually look like the SqueezeBox, but he wanted it to be presentable. But a Pi hooked up to a USB speaker isn’t necessarily a great fit for the living room. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, building a little device to stream digital audio from a NAS is easy these days. Before it finally heads to that great electronics recycling center in the sky, he’s decided to start work on its replacement. The little gadget has been chugging all these years, but the cracks are starting to form. That might not sound very exciting now, but when bought it back in 2006, it was a pretty big deal. The Logitech SqueezeBox was a device you hooked up to your stereo so you could stream music from a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box or your desktop computer over the network.
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