Music Server for Raspberry Pi

Works with YouTube and Spotify.

With this project I aim to provide a software which can be hosted on a Raspberry Pi and operates as a collaborative music server. The server can be accessed via a web browser from any device which can communicate with the RPi over the internet. I am also working on advanced features to provide a better collaborative experience.

Features / Roadmap

• YouTube Search
• Auto-Play Recommendations
• Collaborative Queue
• Spotify Search
• Default Config
• Config in YAML, TOML, JSON, or something
• Playlists
• Security Measures (Authentication)
• Song Voting
• Automatic Volume Adjustment (YT)
• Mix Playlists

Dependencies

This software requires Python 3 and the following Python libraries:

• Bottle 0.12.18
• Google API Client 1.10.0
• Pafy
• python-mpv 0.5.2
• spotipy 2.13.0

Highly recommended, but not stricly necessary is:

• Paste 3.4.3

All Depencies can be installed through pipenv.

Setup

You need to write a config.py file like the following:

HOST_NAME = 'XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX'
PORT_NUMBER = 7000
SERVER_TYPE = 'paste'

ENABLE_VOLUME_NORMALIZATION = False

YOUTUBE_API_KEY = 'AIza...'

Put this file in the root directory of the music server. You'll need to replace the HOST_NAME variable with your servers IP address, and set the YOUTUBE_API_KEY variable to a valid key for the YouTube Data API. If you did not download the recommended server software 'Paste', you have to change the SERVER_TYPE to the server you want to use instead, a list of possibilities can be found in the Bottle Documentation.

Then, assuming that the music server is located in a directory called 'musicServer', you can run it using the supervise command from the parent directory:

$ nohup supervise musicServer &

The nohup command prevents the server from shutting down when you log out of the shell that launched it. Whereas the supervise command will automatically relaunch the server if/when it crashes. Therefore the command above should lead to the server being up until you explicitly decide to kill the program.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.