[Solved] Raspberry Pi 4 "InStore Audio" Importing Help
January 30, 2025, 16:35
Hi! Im in abit of a pickle with a project. I am working on a Raspberry Pi 4 running what seems to be a modified version of raspanOS to play music in-store. The company who made this is no longer in service and was bought out to be another company. I currently do not have the right permissions to import the songs into the folder the music player uses. I do not know the username or password of an admin who does, and the servers this device used to run on when connected to ethernet are long dead. I have sever tracks already downloaded, and on the desktop I just need help moving them, or running an alternative software that works just the same where music from a specific software is run as soon as the desktop is booted. I do have a seperate SD card I can sacrifice and the proper flashing tools. Im not the best at coding so I may need a simple guide or just someone helping with the steps.
I would contact https://www.echion.de/en/services/instore-audio-en/ first and try to get login/manual and such.
If that is the new owner of the software
Sent, while were working on that are there any alternatives I could try on a seperate card?
Is it one Pi or is it a distributed system?
If it is one Pi I would recommend "Kodi" as it is a media system that is common and well supported
Uh, its just for the one Pi
is there a way to setup kodi to run and play music from a specific folder upon startup?
A quick search "Under Settings->Appearance->Skin->Settings is a Option for “Enable playlist at startup”. "
Ok thank you I might need some help later but for now that might actually work. Is kodi it's own software or do I install it on raspanOS?
Check the URL above
I actually think you can do both, but it was a long time ago when I used it (6 years ago)
And Im not sure if there is an app (mobile android/iphone) that can be used to control Kodi or if it is web based only
Im going to use LibreElec since its provided with the offical flasher, and says it uses Kodi
Thanks for the help btw, i'll be sure to refer people here
Good luck on your journey and I got it that you have linux experience.
Plot twist, its not working, or even reading the card, only the original it came with, i even went out and got a new card from the store (sandisk so not some generic brand) and its not working or reading
hey when did the raspberry pi 4 come out again? it might be a 3 and thats why its not reading
So it was a pi3, and i got kodi working, im importing my music now
So I will makred this as solved
It not quite done. I still need to find a way to auto start the music since the method you listed did not work
Got any ideas, and for reference I am using the latest version of libreElec, and I have all the music in a playlist
Not more than searching the kodi wiki.
And just so we talk the same language, Libreelec is the minimal OS that Kodi runs on.
Perhaps this could be a solution
https://github.com/Leo-C/kodi.addon.autoplay
good news bad news
good news i found an add on already that does that "party mode autostart"
Bad news, it doesn't work 😉
bad news I can't get it to play from the headphone jack which I need since thats how music plays in store
which i thought was just changing the audio output but that didn't change it
There is an audio-profile addon
As I understand it, Kodi uses HDMI audio if a HDMI device with audio is connected
thank you that worked
the add on?
It was a link to something to edit in the config file
Was it to add dtparam=audio=on to config.txt ?