I built a music player for my Man Cave inside an old radio box.

Photo album and description here, if you care: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Nthmeg3cQVVrDbqBA

I used an Arduino to handle the buttons and knobs, a Raspberry Pi as the actual player and replaced the dial with an eInk display.


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Re: Music Players
By: Dr. What to All on Sun May 31 2020 10:16 am

I built a music player for my Man Cave inside an old radio box.

Photo album and description here, if you care: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Nthmeg3cQVVrDbqBA

I used an Arduino to handle the buttons and knobs, a Raspberry Pi as the act player and replaced the dial with an eInk display.

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Nice build. ilike how you left the tubes in, even though most will probably not see them. Awhile I ago I didn't have a project at hand to implement it, but I was looking for small glass or plastic items that looked like tube
bodies for a possible retro project. In a local store there was a gumball machine full of plastic capsules with kids toy isn them, and I was thinking
one of those fosted domes with an amber led under it would look good.

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Photo album and description here, if you care:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Nthmeg3cQVVrDbqBA

Nice build. ilike how you left the tubes in, even though most will probably not see them.

A pair of slightly angled mirrors \/ behind the project could serve to "bring forward" the artwork from behind? Maybe even add some
strategically placed LEDs to add some hint of tube activity?

When I was a pre-schooler, I found it fascinating to watch the tubes in
the tv console light up. I remember asking to WAIT for me to get behind
the set before someone turned on the tv.

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Moondog wrote to Dr. What <=-

Nice build. ilike how you left the tubes in, even though most will probably not see them.

Ya, but it is a nice decoration. The intention was to have the radio on a desktop then you could look behind it, but I ran out of space to do that.

Awhile I ago I didn't have a project at hand to
implement it, but I was looking for small glass or plastic items that looked like tube bodies for a possible retro project. In a local store there was a gumball machine full of plastic capsules with kids toy isn them, and I was thinking one of those fosted domes with an amber led
under it would look good.

Ooo... That's actually a really neat idea. I didn't think of that (but then I don't have kids and never look at those gumball machines in the stores).


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Re: Re: Music Players
By: Dr. What to Moondog on Tue Jun 02 2020 10:03 am

Ooo... That's actually a really neat idea. I didn't think of that (but the don't have kids and never look at those gumball machines in the stores).

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I remember as a child there was some pink or purple sweet tart type powdered candy that came in a platic test tube with a cap. My mother and sister had lipstick covers that also could've made a cool looking tube like device.

Last year I saw a modernized version of a nixie tube. Instead of heater elements in the shape of numbers stacked in a tube, there were several layers
of plexiglas with different numbers etched in them and stacked. Each layer had it's own tiny led, an only that specific slide would show.

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Moondog wrote to Dr. What <=-

I remember as a child there was some pink or purple sweet tart type powdered candy that came in a platic test tube with a cap. My mother
and sister had lipstick covers that also could've made a cool looking
tube like device.

Ya, I remember those too. I also remember candy lip stick. Never tried it, though. Must have had cooties on it. 8)

Last year I saw a modernized version of a nixie tube. Instead of
heater elements in the shape of numbers stacked in a tube, there were several layers
of plexiglas with different numbers etched in them and stacked. Each layer had it's own tiny led, an only that specific slide would show.

I picked up a kit for one of those from Banggood not too long ago. Looks and works really nice. They are called Lixie Tubes. There was a guy on Tindie that was selling individual ones for projects.


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Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams?
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Re: Music Players
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to All on Sat Jun 13 2020 04:34 am

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams?

vlc

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Re: Music Players
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to All on Sat Jun 13 2020 04:34 am

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams? ---

MusicBee and MediaMonkey can also play internet radio streams.

Nightfox

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Re: Music Players
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to All on Sat Jun 13 2020 04:34 am

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams?

VLC is what I use most of the time. I also use VLC with bluetooth to play music from my phone in the car.

Ttyl :-),
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MATTHEW MUNSON wrote to All <=-

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio
station streams? ---

I played with one called Clementine. It's cross-platform
Linux/Windows (don't remember if it had a Mac client) and
consolidated Shoutcast and lots of other streaming services,
podcasts, and MP3/ogg playback. I liked it.



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Re: Music Players
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to All on Sat Jun 13 2020 04:34 am

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams?

You might try Spotify.

-Jon

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Re: Music Players
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to All on Sat Jun 13 2020 04:34 am

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams?

You might try Spotify.

-Jon

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I use XMMS. Good Winamp clone which can run on Linux.

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Dennisk wrote to Jon Justvig <=-

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams?

You might try Spotify.

I use XMMS. Good Winamp clone which can run on Linux.

I also like XMMS, on Linux. Been using it for years.



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Re: Music Players
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to All on Sat Jun 13 2020 04:34 am

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams?

You might try Spotify.

-Jon

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I use XMMS. Good Winamp clone which can run on Linux.

I used xmms for a long time. Nowadays I have ampache running on an old workstation on my rack. I stream my music. Lately, though, I've been streaming clicktunes off bottomless abyss bbs radio. Good stuff.

Daniel Traechin

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calcmandan wrote to Dennisk <=-

Dennisk wrote to Jon Justvig <=-

Jon Justvig wrote to MATTHEW MUNSON <=-

Re: Music Players
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to All on Sat Jun 13 2020 04:34 am

Aside from Winamp and iTunes which ones also play internet radio station streams?

You might try Spotify.

-Jon

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I use XMMS. Good Winamp clone which can run on Linux.

I used xmms for a long time. Nowadays I have ampache running on an old workstation on my rack. I stream my music. Lately, though, I've been streaming clicktunes off bottomless abyss bbs radio. Good stuff.

Daniel Traechin

BBS Radio? How does that work?

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Re: Re: Music Players
By: Dennisk to calcmandan on Sat Jun 20 2020 10:40 am

I used xmms for a long time. Nowadays I have ampache running on an
old workstation on my rack. I stream my music. Lately, though, I've
been streaming clicktunes off bottomless abyss bbs radio. Good
stuff.

BBS Radio? How does that work?

That BBS probably also has its own Shoutcast media server or something streaming internet radio.

Nightfox

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Dennisk wrote to calcmandan <=-

BBS Radio? How does that work?

I should've been more clear. It's a streaming station hosted by the sysop of bottomless abyss,

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calcmandan wrote to Dennisk <=-

Dennisk wrote to calcmandan <=-

BBS Radio? How does that work?

I should've been more clear. It's a streaming station hosted by the
sysop of bottomless abyss,

Ahh, that makes sense. Might check it out.

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