Clare's right, music is hard these days. I do have spotify (though not a paid subscription) but I don't want it to become the only way we listen to things; I have installed it mostly as a favour to a friend. I think I have all the good music already, and I play it through the kitchen stereo (my Roberts DAB that lives on top of the fridge) by having a raspberry pi plugged in to the back of it that is running MPD1 and has the NAS mounted too. This means we can play any of our music there, via the networks. There's no good interface to it though. I generally like to listen to all the music on shuffle, so have set that to automatically start when it's powered up. Then by also having piface digital on that raspberry pi I can use the remote control from the radio to pause, play, restart, skip a track, repeat the current artist, or play a random track from a favourite artist. We need more though, so I have a plan. I'm going to install MPDJs2 so we have web interface to this, this means Clare can more easily select a track from her phone (using the web browser). Then the next step will be voice control. I have a microphone plugged into that raspberry pi, I can install Amazon's alexa on it and then say "ok computer, play over the hedge music", and everyone will be happy.
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
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