About pi-jukebox

Pi-Jukebox is an mpd client application which you can use with a Raspberry Pi with touchscreen.

Do you have a huge music collection and wanted to be able to access it anywhere in your house? I did. I was inspired by some other Raspberry Pi projects, like adafruit’s pi radio project. I wanted my music player to be able to access my music from my NAS drive, but also wanted to be able to play music brought by friends on their USB stick. These projects brought me to mpd: a music server program that allows you to control enormous amounts of music. It is easy to search through your music collection and play it. mpd has many client apps by which you can control your music on loads of different devices. But... What if there’s no wifi access? You must be able to control the device directly: enter the touchscreen and enter pi-jukebox.

Future plans include:

• Modipy support.
• Bluetooth streaming.
• Switching between single room and multi-room simultaneous playback.
• Although it is made with a adafruit 320x240 touchscreen in mind, it should be fairly simple to adjust it for larger screens (in later versions I’m planning to do some scaling).

Running pi-jukebox on your Raspberry Pi

Be sure to check the value of MPD_MUSIC_DIR in the mpd_client.py, this should point to your music library (found in the music_directory entry of mpd.conf. Run pi-jukebox with:

sudo python pi-jukebox.py