Start playing on boot

[smonaghen]

Is there a way to make RuneAudio start playing after boot? I would like to use it on a RPI with no network, no keyboard, headless, with music stored on usb flash after initial set up. This would allow for use in a vehicle, or with anyone's stereo without any interaction.

Thank you very much,

[cmh714]

if you shutdown the player when its playing, its been my experience that the same will start up automatically on next boot...I also believe the command to start mpd can be called with the appropriate parameters to start music as well.

[smonaghen]

Tried shutting down while playing...no luck. What "commands" would cause RuneAudio to auto start in the mpd?

[cmh714]

actually it would be mpc commands, see here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/mpc

I'm sure ACX can help better....

[ACX]

mpc play is the cli command that will tell MPD to start the playback (if you have tracks loaded in the queue, of course).
Just use it in a bash script and make it run at boot.

[rasti]

Hello,

I'd also like to do that.... could someone provide step by step instructions
with code lines how to implement that ? I am not really linux literate...

Thanks

Ralf