My Squeezebox Setup
Posted: 01 Jan 2013, 07:32
I thought you might be interested in how I am using my Bubba 2 for a sound system. I have been using it as a general NAS, also a mail server with roundcube and various home grown web based systems such as a Christmas postage list ( fairly topical at the moment), personal picture gallery as the ones provided are too slow for high number of pictures. I back it up regularly using SyncToy on the windows 7 machine.
I was given a Raspberry Pi for Christmas. My desire for a long time was to play all the music stored on the Bubba ( about 6000 tracks). I have been using a Sagem internet device that played well but was very hard to use and very slow to select a track and Internet station.
I installed SqueezePlug (Debian based music operating system) on the Pi. I used SqueezeLite as the player to a wireless DAC which connected to the valve amplifier. Squeezelite provides a higher (music) quality player than the default SqueezeSlave. I found that the Bubba had a Squeezebox server waiting to be used. So I switched it on and told it to scan the music library and went to bed. After some struggling I got the Pi to send the music to the DAC and found SqueezePad an IPad app which controls the player.
So now I have an easy method to scan, select and control my music collection along with easy access to internet stations all from the armchair.
I am now looking to install it on the Ubuntu machine in the kitchen. I can then control what my wife listens to from another room. Fantastic - a dream that will never be realised as her indoors rules the roost.
I was given a Raspberry Pi for Christmas. My desire for a long time was to play all the music stored on the Bubba ( about 6000 tracks). I have been using a Sagem internet device that played well but was very hard to use and very slow to select a track and Internet station.
I installed SqueezePlug (Debian based music operating system) on the Pi. I used SqueezeLite as the player to a wireless DAC which connected to the valve amplifier. Squeezelite provides a higher (music) quality player than the default SqueezeSlave. I found that the Bubba had a Squeezebox server waiting to be used. So I switched it on and told it to scan the music library and went to bed. After some struggling I got the Pi to send the music to the DAC and found SqueezePad an IPad app which controls the player.
So now I have an easy method to scan, select and control my music collection along with easy access to internet stations all from the armchair.
I am now looking to install it on the Ubuntu machine in the kitchen. I can then control what my wife listens to from another room. Fantastic - a dream that will never be realised as her indoors rules the roost.