Decades of distance from my junior-high self don’t offer much insight, as it wasn’t a matter of being willfully eclectic. Just what is revealed in admitting here that the most important album of my freshman year in high school was a dubbed TDK cassette with 2 Live Crew’s As Nasty As They Want to Be on one side and “Weird Al” Yankovic’s breakout 1984 album 3-D on the flip, I can’t quite say. Which is to say, years before I liked anything remotely cool (or even knew what was cool), I loved “Weird Al” Yankovic unabashedly. But the long, agonizing desert that is seven years of adolescence is nothing if not constantly in flux, with teens molting their listening habits and tastes as they haphazardly try on, discard, and form their personas. Most tried to prove they were always hip, boasting about cool bands and critically acclaimed classics they loved from the jump (Nirvana, Public Enemy, the Ramones, My Bloody Valentine, Patti Smith showed up often).
#Squeezebox album flow software#
He’s written the software to plug into Logitech’s media player back-end to retain compatibility with the not-quite-dead-yet SqueezeBox, but we imagine the code could be adapted to whatever digital media scheme you’re using. Software he’s written for the Raspberry Pi shows the album information and cover art on the display while the music is playing, and the current time and weather forecast when it’s idle. He added a WaveShare e-Paper 5.83″ display and mounted it in a picture frame. While the case was definitely a step in the right direction, wasn’t done yet. We especially like that he took the time to add all of the internal components to the render so he could be sure everything fit before bringing the design into the corporeal world. We generally associate this tool with 3D printing, but here he’s exporting each individual panel as an SVG file so they can be cut out.
#Squeezebox album flow pro#
The Raspberry Pi 4 and HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro live inside of a wooden laser cut case that designed with OpenSCAD. While most of us probably would have tried to make something that looked like a traditional piece of audio gear, he took his design is a somewhat more homey direction.
didn’t necessarily want his replacement player to actually look like the SqueezeBox, but he wanted it to be presentable.
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But a Pi hooked up to a USB speaker isn’t necessarily a great fit for the living room. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, building a little device to stream digital audio from a NAS is easy these days. Before it finally heads to that great electronics recycling center in the sky, he’s decided to start work on its replacement. The little gadget has been chugging all these years, but the cracks are starting to form. That might not sound very exciting now, but when bought it back in 2006, it was a pretty big deal. The Logitech SqueezeBox was a device you hooked up to your stereo so you could stream music from a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box or your desktop computer over the network.
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