Building a Raspberry PI Jukebox. with FruitBox (SEPTEMBER 2019)

THINGS YOU WILL NEED

·         A raspberry Pi (later models preferred) (CLICK FOR LINK)

·         A Micro SD Memory card (I used 16 GB, more space means more music) (CLICK FOR LINK)

·         A Micro SD Memory card writer attached to your PC (CLICK FOR LINK)

·         Raspbian Lite (CLICK FOR LINK)

·         WIN32 Disk Imager (CLICK FOR LINK)

·         Putty (CLICK FOR LINK)

·         Filezilla (CLICK FOR LINK)

·         MP3 Music Files

OPTIONAL CUSTOM BUILT KEYPAD

THINGS YOU WILL NEED

- (16) momentary push buttons (LIKE THESE)

- ZERO DELAY Joystick encoder circuit. (LEKE THIS) (NOTE THESE OFTEN DONT INCLUDE ENOUGH CONNECTOR CABLES  SO YOU MAY WISSH TO PURCHASE TWO)

- a few small pieces of transparent Plexiglass 

- Some scraps of wood & Carpentry skills 

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is by no means the only way to wire the buttons, as a matter of fact the wiring order is irrelevant as each function is defined from within the Fruitbox Button configuration option, this particular wiring was drawn to be estetically pleasing any button may be plugged in to any of the available ports on the Zero Delay circuit board. 

PROCESS

·         Download Raspbian LITE (I used stretch lite but I presume other versions will work as well)

·         Download Win 32 Disk Imager

·         Using Win32Disk Imager write the Raspbian image to your Micro SD Card

·         Insert SD Card into Raspberry Pi and boot

·         Login to Raspberry:    Login   pi         Password: raspberry

·         Run Raspi config:       sudo raspi-config (enter)

Increase GPU memory to (at least) 256

Advanced Options -> Memory Split / TYPE 256

Enable SSH

Interface options -> Enable SSH)

Enable AUTOMATIC LOGIN  

Boot Options -> Desktop / CLI / Console Autologin)

 EXIT (SHOULD offer to reboot automatically… if not use the Reboot command)

REBOOT (Type: reboot at command prompt)

INSTALLATION

The following you may do either from a keyboard connected to the raspberry Pi

OR you may open a console to the raspberry Pi using PUTTY (Login: pi / Password:  raspberry)

·         If you wish to console in you will need to know your IP address which may be obtained by attaching your raspberry to an Ethernet cable (or alternatively WIFI) and typing:

IFCONFIG from the command prompt.

·         Download/Install Fruitbox

(IF USING PUTTY YOU CAN HIGHLIGHT AND COPY and RIGHT CLICK IN PUTTY TO PASTE)

From a command shell, enter following commands:

wget https://github.com/chundermike/rpi-fruitbox/raw/master/install.sh
chmod +x ./install.sh
source ./install.sh

Log in to Raspberry using Filezilla (CHANGE ACCESS PORT to 22)

·         On your PC Create a folder called “Music” (Case sensitive)

·         Copy all your MP3 files to this folder (ensure they are properly tagged)

·         Copy (or move) this folder to the following location on Raspberry

/hompe/pi/Music (Case sensitive)

EXECUTE FRUITBOX WITH FOLLOWING COMMANDS

cd rpi-fruitbox-master

./fruitbox --cfg skins/SKIN NAME/fruitbox.cfg

i.e.

./fruitbox --cfg skins/WallJuke/fruitbox.cfg

TO RUN FRUITBOX AUTOMATICALLY UPON POWER ON

·         Use Fillezilla to download:     /home/pi/.bashrc

·         Use your favorite text editor to add following line at the end of the file

cd rpi-fruitbox-master

./fruitbox --cfg skins/YOUR SKIN/fruitbox.cfg

i.e.

./fruitbox --cfg skins/WallJuke/fruitbox.cfg

 ·         Use FileZilla to transfer file back to:     /home/pi/.bashrc

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FRUITBOX ADDITIONAL NOTES

Default CONFIG FILE is located here:

/home/pi/rpi-fruitbox-master/skins/WallJuke/fruitbox.cfg

Default MUSIC FOLDER is located here:

/HOME/PI/MUSIC

Default MUSIC DATABASE is located here:

/HOME/PI/fruitbox.db  (DELETE TO REGENERATE)

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CONFIG BUTTONS FOR OPTIONAL KEYPAD

sudo ./fruitbox --config-buttons