RSSPlaying Youtube from CLI – RASPBERRY PI – Economical / Lazy ?
Jan 11
Design / Consulting, Personal Choice 2 Comments
Hi,
Purely a Personal Post on gaining better control / being economical / becoming perfectly lazy 😉 .This has been in pipeline for about a year, I prefer some light music in home while I sleep / work and now and then when I want better control to hear whatever I want.
Three things to it
-> Tried with chromecast – Worked – problem more electricity and efforts to search more with less control
-> Download music and play it via plex where your sound-out is to a 5.1 system. – works but is more static in nature.
-> Have a Blue-tooth Device and give in to 3.5mm jack of your music system. This sounded cool, the only problem is again the searching and the requirement to have a single paired device.
How did i Bypass this ?
A detailed explanation on Raspberry Pi 2.0 / MPSYT / Installing Ubuntu can be found from RASPBERRY PI Website, I feel they did a better job in documentation.
Lets see my home setup
Tools used
-> Xshell – To access raspberry pi / Ubuntu Linux SSH
-> MPSYT – A Program developed to search media via Youtube
-> Audio Out – I used 5.1 but technically you can use a better sound system as long as you have a 3.5mm jack into raspberry pi
Lets see some screenshots
The screenshot is the Shell of Raspberry pi which is being accessed via a Windows System. Remember, this is shell access where you search for music and actual music is via Raspberry pi which is in Network and connected to a Sound-out Device / Music System Out
Launching mps-youtube via #sudo mpsyt
searching music – for example if i have to search INTERSTELLAR , i would say /interstellar and the results would appear like this
Playing is easy, you have flexibility to make and save a playlist or you can play song by song.
Reality !
This is By far the most economical way I could come-up with to play some-light music and have a supreme control on what you wish to play, with out need to worry about display or dedicated CPU.
I have been enjoying this for a while!
Regards
Rakesh M
Apr 28, 2020 @ 16:28:23
First off I want to say superb blog! I had a quick question which
I’d like to ask if you do not mind. I was curious to know how you center yourself and
clear your mind prior to writing. I have had a tough time clearing my
thoughts in getting my thoughts out. I do enjoy writing however it just seems like the first 10 to
15 minutes are usually lost simply just trying to figure out how to begin. Any ideas or hints?
Many thanks!
Apr 29, 2020 @ 13:59:20
Hi Hjem,
Thank you for the nice words. The way I do it is, I write as if am the audience and I try to keep it short, in that way I avoid most of the time a block. Secondly, one thing that helps me is I don’t sit down to write, I think about it during the day and other times and once I have a complete idea, I sit down and write. Hope this helps
-Rakesh