Running local music files from device

arjunm009

Can this be used to play local mp3 files on a device?
Where is the option to do so? The documentation has no mention of playing local files from the computer, tablet or mobile. It just mentions playing files from USB connected to Raspberry Pi or streaming from Spotify.

hondagx35

Hi arjunm009,

you can play
- files from a network storage (shared music library)
- files from usb thumb drive, usb hdd connected to your device
- files stored on the local sd card
- webradio
- spotify (premium account required)
- files streamed via airplay
- the device can act as a upnp renderer

Frank

jgold

It would be nice if you could play from other local devices and not just USB. I've got an 8gb SD card on my Raspberry Pi. Rune only takes 2.1. That leaves 5.7 GB for music. For what I'm trying to do that will hold more than enough. I formatted the extra space and put my music on it only to find that the interface doesn't allow local drives.

I'm not trying to complain. You've put a lot of work into it and it's appreciated. It's easy enough to buy a small USB drive and use that. Still, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to add the option to just search local drives for music files. I think the program would make a better impression if you could. Just a suggestion.

I'm running version 0.4 on a Raspberry Pi 3 with the Raspberry Touch Display.

Stephane

Hi,
You have to expand the EXT4 partition and you will be able to use it as local storage thru a SMB share.

Envoyé de mon ONE E1003 en utilisant Tapatalk

hondagx35

Hi jgold,

I formatted the extra space and put my music on it only to find that the interface doesn't allow local drives.

Hmmm, i think you did not search the forum.

Please read this
Your newly created partition has to be mounted in /mn/MPD/LocalStorage and your music will magically appear in your library.

Frank

RRPi3

hondagx35 wroteHi jgold,

I formatted the extra space and put my music on it only to find that the interface doesn't allow local drives.
Hmmm, i think you did not search the forum.

Please read this
Your newly created partition has to be mounted in /mn/MPD/LocalStorage and your music will magically appear in your library.

Frank

Hi Frank,

this brings me to a slightly off-topic question. I'm using this approach with a 200 GB microSD on a Pi since long time and like Runaudio very much - thanks to the team!

However, the large LocalStorage partition keeps me off from switching to your nice 0.4 beta, which I'm running on a smaller test microSD. Is there a way to 0.4 beta without completely erasing and restoring the LocalStorage partition from a backup?

Thanks in advance

RRPi3

hondagx35

Hi RRPi3,

Is there a way to 0.4 beta without completely erasing and restoring the LocalStorage partition from a backup?

Sorry, but the easiest way is to overwrite the old image and restore your music library.

Frank

Stephane

If you are familiar with Linux and that your LocalStorage card is ext4 formatted then you can put the new 0.4 files without having to reformat the card.

First install the new image on a small SD card or USB stick or whatever you have. Mount the first partition and save its content ( tar cpzf /tmp/boot-partition.tgz .); mount the second partition and save it.
Then use Gparted to insert in first place a FAT16 partition (100-200MB). The second partition should be the original Localstorage with your music in it but shrinked and moved.
Mount the first new partition and restore the content you have made with tar (tar xvpzf /tmp/boot-partition.tgz .). Do the same with the second partition and move your local music into /mountplace/mnt/MPD/LocalStorage.
Insert the SD card in he PI and boot. You should see your music.

RRPi3

Hi Frank and Stephane,

thanks for yor replies.

Stephane wroteIf you are familiar with Linux and that your LocalStorage card is ext4 formatted then you can put the new 0.4 files without having to reformat the card.

Unfortunately, my third partition on the SD is, for whatsoever reason, exFAT. However, as far as I can see /boot is identical, given the same kernel version, for 0.3 and 0.4. Thus, cloning the new 0.4 /root by tar cf - | (cd /mnt/root; tar xf - ) should do the job on a running 0.4 with the cwd /root and the root partition of the 0.3 SD to be updated mounted on /mnt/root? Any objections Frank?

Best,

RRPi3

hondagx35

Hi RRPi3,

Your /boot and /root have to be from the same image.

as far as I can see /boot is identical, given the same kernel version

I don't think so. Where did you get the kernel version from?

Frank

RRPi3

Hi Frank,

hondagx35 wrote
Your /boot and /root have to be from the same image.

as far as I can see /boot is identical, given the same kernel version
I don't think so. Where did you get the kernel version from?

Frank

/boot looks pretty similar to me after "pacman -Sy --force raspberrypi-firmware raspberrypi-bootloader linux-raspberrypi" on both versions (initially after uprading to a 4.9.x kernel and still now after the downgrade I mentioned in this post).

Robert

hondagx35

Hi Robert,

Your /boot and /root have to be from the same image.

Or in other words, the kernel has to be exactly the same.

uname -a

root@runeaudio(rw):~# uname  -a
Linux runeaudio 4.4.39-ARCH+ #5 SMP Sat Feb 11 15:43:36 CET 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

This is because all the kernel modules belonging to this kernel are stored on the /root partition.

root@runeaudio(rw):~# ls /usr/lib/modules
4.4.39-ARCH+  extramodules-4.4.39--raspberrypi

Frank