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 downloaded the latest version Squeezebox server Selected Nightly 7.9 (not sure if I needed to do this).
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
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.
------------------------------------------------------
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 downloaded the latest version Squeezebox server Selected Nightly 7.9 (not sure if I needed to do this).
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