Newbie Here - Help!!

Girrlkitty

Okay, so I just got my first Raspberry Pi2, and I have a USB drive with a LOT of music on it. I installed RuneAudio, and I can log in, and I can even see my files, but when I hit play, nothing happens. The song timer shows that it is playing, but I'm hearing nothing. So I either did something wrong, or I'm misunderstanding what I can do with this. What I was trying to do is set up the Pi where I keep my router and cables, and then access it from my office, or on the other side of the house, and stream the music from the Pi onto the device in question. So, for example, I have a tablet in the living room that is connected to a Bluetooth speaker. I want to be able to log into the Pi from the tablet, and play the songs on the Bluetooth speaker. Or, if I'm in my office, I want to log in on my desktop and play the songs on the Pi through those speakers. I don't have a sound card on the Pi at all - I didn't buy one because I didn't plan to play any music on it directly. I am really hoping you guys can either help me figure out what I'm doing wrong, or point me in the right direction on how to set up the Pi to do what I'm trying to set up. Thank you so much!!

I tried to attach the RuneAudio debug log, but pasting it in I'm getting the error that it's too many characters, and trying to attach it, I'm getting the error that doc and txt files aren't allowed. Let me know what format you need it in, and I can provide that as well!

hondagx35

So I either did something wrong, or I'm misunderstanding what I can do with this.

The latter, see the documentation.
RuneAudio is booth hard and software.
You only can play music though a soundcard attached to your PI.

From the documentation:
At the heart of your digital hi-fi system

A RuneAudio device places itself at the heart of a digital music system.

A streamer player:
It can reproduce your digital music library from local USB drives or network mounts (NAS), and also plays any internet stream (web radios).

A headless player:
It can be remotely controlled by multiple clients running on different devices.

A digital player:
Staying at the top of the audio signal flow chain. It offers perfect and gapless playback of common audio formats, RuneAudio works best when connected to an asynchronous USB 2.0 DAC, an I2S DAC, or a S/PDIF output to a DAC.

Frank

PeteB

Girrlkitty wrote....point me in the right direction on how to set up the Pi to do what I'm trying to set up. Thank you so much!!...

You can still do what you want with your Pi. You just need different software instead of Rune Audio.

Search for tutorials on how to use your Raspberry Pi as a DLNA/UPnP media server, using MiniDLNA or similar software. There are several on the web.

You Pi is actually well suited to be a music server. (Not necessarily a true file server because it is a little slow, but more than good enough for music).

I have a second Pi (Not the one I run Rune on) to stream music from a flash drive to devices like this: A Samsung smartphone (with Bubble UPnP app), an old (and slow) Nexus tablet, my HP laptop, and even an old Panasonic flatscreen TV with DLNA built in.

If a web search does not find what you want, go to the Raspberry forums.

Girrlkitty

Thanks guys! Yeah, I thought when it said it could be the heart of the system, that meant I could stream to my external speakers. I will absolutely take your advice and look for the right software - at least now I know what I'm looking for! Thank you so much!