I have a Logitech Squeezebox Radio and like being able to play music on my TV from the Logitech Android app, so here is how I did that, taken mostly from http://www.havetheknowhow.com/Install-the-software/Install-Squeezebox-server.html:
Added deb http://debian.slimdevices.com stable main to /etc/apt/sources.list (on Ubuntu 14.04LTS, use deb http://debian.slimdevices.com unstable main instead) then:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install logitechmediaserver
Then from http://localhost:9000 you log in and configure it.
Squeezelite is a client to playback local and internet music through the computer. It is a downloadable executable program, so here are the procedures:
cd /opt sudo mkdir squeezelite cd squeezelite sudo wget http://squeezelite-downloads.googlecode.com/git/squeezelite-x86-64 sudo chmod +x squeezelite-x86-64
I learned that if you keep squeezelite as owned by the root user, it won’t play nicely with other sounds at the same time. I believe the program will use a root’s version of pulseaudio, rather than the user’s version. So, run the following, changing the username to the username you use when using mythtv:
cd /opt sudo chown someuser:someuser -R squeezelite
Then I put the following startup script as /etc/init.d/squeezelite (this is from here)
#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: squeezelite # Required-Start: $syslog # Required-Stop: $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Script to start squeezelite # Description: Service script for squeezelite, command line squeezebox player ### END INIT INFO #Define some variables. LMS is the IP of your Logitech Media Server. Output device can be found by running squeezelite -l USER=someuser OUTPUT=pulse NAME=SqueezelitePlayerName LMS=localhost case "$1" in start) echo "Starting Squeezelite" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet -b -m -p /var/run/squeezelite.pid --chuid $USER --exec /opt/squeezelite/squeezelite -- -o $OUTPUT -n $NAME $LMS ;; stop) echo "Stopping Squeezelite" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/squeezelite.pid rm -f /var/run/squeezelite ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/squeezelite {start|stop}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0
Then to finish the setup I made it executable, set the startup to a very low priority to not conflict with pulseaudio or anything else. the chkconfig line is not needed, just something recommended.
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/squeezelite sudo update-rc.d squeezelite defaults 90 10 sudo chkconfig –add squeezelite sudo /etc/init.d/squeezelite start
In ubuntu 14.04, squeezelite appears to not be running while accessing the correct pulseaudio if started using the init.d script. It works, but conflicts with mythtv audio. Therefore I stopped the autorunning of the above script, and added a new autorun to the xfce desktop. That gives it the correct access to pulseaudio. Use these steps to accomplish that:
sudo update-rc.d -f squeezelite remove nano ~/config/autostart/SqueezeLite.desktop
Paste the following into that file:
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=0.9.4 Type=Application Name=SqueezeLite Comment=Media Streaming using Logitech Media Server Exec=/opt/squeezelite/squeezelite -z -o pulse -n SqueezelitePlayerName -s localhost OnlyShowIn=XFCE; StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false
At your next startup, squeezelite should autostart and work properly with other audio streams.
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