As a numpty I managed to blunder through burning the latest version of max2play onto an sd card and installing it on Raspberry PI2 to run LMS for my SB Boom and Touch.
This is how I did this.
I’m sure there are easier ways would appreciate any pointers or advise on anything I could do better or didn’t need to do. All feedback / advice welcome would be greatly appreciated.
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Prior to this I’ve downloaded the following onto my laptop (other software is available that does similar things).
7-zip (to extract the download file) http://www.7-zip.org/
Win32DiskImager (which takes the extracted Image file and burns it onto the SD) https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
SD Formatter (in case your need to re-format the sddisk if everything goes wrong) http://download.cnet.com/SD-Formatte..-75883295.html
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Installing Max2play
I downloaded the lastest Max2play image for the raspberry PI from the below.
https://www.max2play.com/en/max2play-image/
Opened 7-Zip, and extracted the image file from the Max2Play file that I’d just downloaded.
Inserted SD card into the laptop
Opened Win32DiskImager selected the folder that the Max2play image was in, madding sure that the correct drive for the SD card was selected and clicked on “Write”.
Once complete I removed the SD card and inserted it in the Raspberry PI.
I connected the Raspberry PI my router via an Ethernet Cable, then plugged the power socket into the Raspberry PI. After a few moments you should get the lights come on the PI and on the Ethernet connection.
On the lap top type in http://max2play/ into the URL bar and enter. A graphical user interface will appear.
I then pretty much followed the max2play guide https://www.max2play.com/en/wiki/starter-guide/
I only did the below two stages from the guide which was:-
•Click on the menu tab Settings/Reboot. There, fill out the boxes for the email address (used during your purchase of the bundles) and a specific name for your device (e.g. “Living Room”; “Kitchen”; “Bath Room”)
•Now click on the Button Expand Filesystem. After this it is important to reboot the system.
I then clicked on to the Squeezebox server tab and Clicked on Open
Squeezebox Sever Webadministration
Clicked on Settings (bottom right)
Clicked on the Plugins Tab
Ticked the box to enable Spotty from the list
Disabled all other Spotify plugins
Applied and then restarted the LMS server.
Went back to Squeezebox Sever Webadministration .
The plugin tab and found the Spotty plugin in the list and went along to the setting section on the right hand side at the end.
Followed the instructions for Spotify authorisation and it was up and running.
Any recommended changes/ additions / feedback or better ways of doing this welcome
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Feedback
Max2Play also offer the below guides that are probably better laid out than the guides.
Burning Max2Play to an SD card
https://www.max2play.com/en/wiki/bur..o-memory-card/
Installing Spotty guide.
https://www.max2play.com/en/how-tos/howto-spotify/
Download spotify playlist notepad. Max2Play free download. Download now ©2020 Max2Play Powered by Netzberater.de. Spotify offline error. When using the Max2Play-Website, you agree with the usage of Browser-Cookies. The Max2play image is available for free download on our website. All images for download on Max2Play are packed in.rar or.zip files and can be burnt onto a card using a simple tool like the WinDiskImager for Windows. Just let it burn and once the process is done, put the card into the Raspberry Pi.
Here's Spotty, my not fully fleshed out potential next generation Spotify implementation for Squeezebox.
![Max2play Spotify Free Max2play Spotify Free](/uploads/1/3/3/9/133918145/855168201.png)
- Add http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/test.xml to the plugins repository list
- Install Spotty
- Uninstall the official Spotify, Spotify Protocol Handler and Triode's Spotify plugins (if installed)
- Head over to mysqueezebox.com to remove Spotify from your apps
- Restart LMS
- Go to Settings/Advanced/Spotty and follow the instructions
- Use Spotty as you used to use Spotify on SB before.
On platforms other than Windows you should be able to authorize the plugin using your mobile or desktop Spotify application. On Windows unfortunately you'll have to enter username/password (which are NOT stored in LMS).
My kids have been using this plugin for a few weeks now, for hours a day. It sometimes takes a tad longer to buffer the first track. But after that playback seems to be pretty gapless. It does seeking. Doesn't crash when skipping tracks. Isn't limited to a single device. Let's keep fingers crossed it continues to work post Fall '17..
Technically this implementation follows a pretty different approach than the old implementations. Rather than having a daemon run in the background, Spotty is running the helper app for every track. It uses the transcoding framework to pipe the audio data back in to LMS, very much like any file format would do which required transcoding. By default Spotty would stream audio as FLAC. But this can be changed in the file formats settings (PCM or mp3). My office LMS is running on a piCorePlayer based Pi3 installation. CPU load is well below 10% during playback.
![Max2play spotify free music Max2play spotify free music](/uploads/1/3/3/9/133918145/453844622.jpg)