#AUDIO FILE SPY HOW TO#
#AUDIO FILE SPY SOFTWARE#

We currently prefer 8 GB class 10 cards, as these are pretty cheap right now.

If the audio box has access to your music files on a Windows shared folder, you can use a small SD card with with 2 or 4 GB. The size of the SD card depends on if you want to store some music on the SD card as well to play local audio files from it or if you have stored all your music files somewhere on a network attached storage. The Raspberry Pi needs an SD card to store the OS and data on it as it has no internal storage built in. We prefer using the cheapest cases for about US$9 like this one: Please remember that you don't need any visual contact to your audio box, everything is remotely controlled via your mobile phone or web browser. Depending on where you will put your audio box later, you can use a cheap and ugly or a nice expensive case. The Raspberry Pi computer comes pretty 'naked', so you want to give it a case to protect it and make it look good. (Readers from Germany see the notes at the end of the article). It comes with 700MHz Broadcom CPU, 512 MB Ram, 4 USB ports and a 100MBit ethernet port. This article will focus on using the new model B+. To build this audio box, you can either use a Raspberry Pi B or the newer version Raspberry B+. There is only a handful of hardware components you need to build this versatile amazing little audio box: Raspberry Pi It costs only about US$35 and opens up endless possibilities of what you can build with it. This little micro-computer originally was developed to teach children at school, but it has now become very popular for all kind of DIY-projects. Have you ever heard of Raspberry Pi? It's a low-cost micro-computer that is able to run Linux and has endless extension possibilities. Just follow these steps to get your next-level-audio-system.

#AUDIO FILE SPY SOFTWARE#

You only need very basic hardware skills and some basic software skills. This solution will do the same and even some more for around US$70. from Sonos and Bose, but they start at around US$200.

Yes, there are out-of-the-box solutions available i.e. The best thing is, that you don't need to have any keyboard, mouse, monitor or TV attached to this box: hide it somewhere behind your audio system and remotely control it with your mobile phone (Android, iOS or anything else!) or PC (via any web browser).

#AUDIO FILE SPY HOW TO#

This article describes how to extend your audio system with a Raspberry Pi micro-computer to play any local music or audio stream from the internet (including Spotify Premium etc.).

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