Hello Folks. Hope you are having a good year so far, in spite of the covid virus.
I thought I would try to make another jukebox, based on Mountain's classic design.
I also wanted to use a spare RPi3 I had laying around gathering dust.
I like the look and feel of XLobby, the front end software I used on my previous jukeboxes. (Projects links below in signature).
So I decided to try to recreate the XLobby look.
I am currently in software design and writing.
Here are my specs: (Subject to change)
RPi3 with 32 GB sd card.
Python 3.
PyGame (to display images)
Mutagen (To read MP3 tags)
Look and feel as much as possible like XLobby.
Hardware: (Also subject to change)
15" Touchscreen (more on that later).
Use external memstick to store music and photos on, so editing will be easy by transferring stick to a PC (or Mac).
I bought a 15" Pittney Bowes POS touchscreen monitor. (Ebay)
It has excellent picture but I cannot get the RPi to see the touchscreen digitizer (or whatever its called).
I am currently using that monitor with a mouse for software development, but will most likely order a 10" screen made for RPi before beginning cabinet design.
(Be interesting to see how the resolution will differ).
I plan not to use the rotating cabinet like I did on my other Mountain designs.
I will try to keep this updated and I will share my python script when I get to the point where I feel its ready to share and test.
I currently have the main screen built, and am pretty far along with the "All Albums" display.
Here is a picture of the main screen, with my girlfriend on arm and car on wish list.
I will post a pic of the "all albums screen" as soon as I can get a decent pic without the mirror of me in the black background screen. (having a bad hair day LOl).
Wish me luck and bare with me, Python is a finicky language and Im still learning it as I go.