Awesome.
Spotify Box
51–60 of 156 posts
Re: Spotify Box
#52> Connecting to a Wi-Fi network is simple enough. Just download the Spotify Box app and give the pushbutton a press to start searching for networks. Then you can choose your Wi-Fi network through my app to get connected.
This is the same process that iRobot does to connect their Roomba cleaners. Is it done over Bluetooth maybe?
Re: Spotify Box
#53Wow this is a super impressive project. I was originally expecting a device built around a Raspberry Pi, but this is a completely custom designed linux board!
I don't understand why they didn't just use a pi; it would have been cheaper and easier. It already has ethernet and analog audio out.
It would have been even easier to plug an aux cable into an old phone and use that
Not as interesting though. Not as fun
Re: Spotify Box
#54We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Re: Spotify Box
#55We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Sure. But we’ll need some sort of centralized market or exchange on which to discover these artists and send them funds.
Oh wait….
Re: Spotify Box
#56We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Sure. But we’ll need some sort of centralized market or exchange on which to discover these artists and send them funds. Oh wait….
It's called Bandcamp
Re: Spotify Box
#57> Connecting to a Wi-Fi network is simple enough. Just download the Spotify Box app and give the pushbutton a press to start searching for networks. Then you can choose your Wi-Fi network through my app to get connected. This is the same process that iRobot does to connect their Roomba cleaners. Is it done over Bluetooth maybe?
The Roomba setup procedure, at least for the 600 series, has the Roomba broadcast a WiFi network that the app has your phone temporarily join.
Re: Spotify Box
#58I was wondering what the advantage is to building something like this, compared to just using a bluetooth adapter that connects via RCA cables (like this box does). I suppose one advantage is that if you walk far away from your stereo, you can loose bluetooth connection and drop audio, where this device has it's own WiFi connection and pulls Spotify audio directly, and is just manually controlled via your phone.
That seemingly small advantage is great for me. Bluetooth is too short range.
I use a Miccus RTX Home on my non-Bluetooth home receiver. I can routinely get a few hundred feet of range from it at my house. Granted I don't have a ton of 2.4GHz noise, but it's noticeably much better range than any other Bluetooth device I've used.
Re: Spotify Box
#59We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Audius.co uses blockchain and ipfs to host files.
Also Royal by 3LAU is pretty interesting.
Re: Spotify Box
#60Very cool! For those looking for a commercial solution Echo Input (~$25) supports this as well – albeit with an Amazon-sized middleman.
Disadvantage of this is that the DAC in the echo dot is quite low quality. On a quality HiFi it doesn't sound very good. I started with this, and then moved to an Echo Link, which allowed me to output digital and then use the DAC in my amplifier, I may upgrade to an external DAC at some point, though I suspect I may have diminishing returns here, given the source is Spotify.