P.S.S.P. - Pi Single Song Player

It’s just a small project. A friend of mine asked me for an mp3 player which randomly plays a song each time you close a contact. The Raspberry Pi was predestined for this. The sound output of the Pi is not optimal, so I used a 7$ USB sound card.

Video

No action, but informative.

Part List

• 1 Raspberry Pi

• 1 USB sound card

• 1 USB flash drive

• 1 Micro SD card

• 1 Power supply

• 1 Enclosure

Software

The Pi is running on Arch Linux (booting up in under 25 secs). You also need python 3.5, the RPI.GPIO package and mpg123. In the home, directory you need this 3 files. You can find them here GitHub.

• play.py (main program)

• mp3.sh (play the mp3)

• system.mp3 (sound file)

Create a folder “mp3” on the flash drive and copy all the needed mp3s in it.

Start on boot

Create a file under /usr/lib/systemd/system and name it “playmp3.service”. Copy this inside the file you just created:

[Unit] Description=PlayMP3 After=multi-user.target
[Service] Type=idle ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /home/play.py
[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

To run the system on boot, do the following:

systemctl enable playmp3.service

Now create this directory: mkdir /mnt/usb . Open the file /etc/fstab and add the following line:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Ready to use

Shorting the GPIO 17 with the ground, makes the thing do what the thing should do.

To the german version.