I came to Volumio when i was looking for a software to suit my needs, and i’ll give it a try.
What i was looking for was a little system (like a raspberry) to run music in loop in a theme park.
The simplest thing i’ve thought is a Pi looping audio files in a directory, but there are some feature that would be nice for me, like having several playlists (one with music, one with music + announces), and a way to schedule them would also be nice. I don’t know if Volumio can handle that i manage to test it (website does not give any technical info at all). Anyone here that knows if it can? Or knows another software better suited for what i’m looking for?
We are using rpi2, and now adding raspberry pi 3 to the setup.
The architecture:
raspberry pi’s with volumio on them
we connect them by lan or wifi and let them on dhcp
we developed a backend/frontend (webiste) on the internal network where we can create and populate playlists, and also administer what each player should play
we enable cron
we have a bash script that is called every minute
the bash script connects to a certain action on our backend and sends his ip and hostname
on the backend we check if the player is already known and we tell him what his playlist, volume and hostname should be
the player adjusts its setting and starts playing the playlist indicated, and adjusts its hostname, volume etc
if the player calls the backend and it’s not registered yet, we populate a “new player” list and an operator assigns it a name and a playlist
We were planning to describe the system in detail and promote it, to offer it as a hw/sw solution for others that may need a similar setup, but we’ve been busy with larger projects.