[Jeff] is continuing to work on his WiFi streaming radio project and is now into part 7. The reason it’s taken so long is because he’s bothering to document every single piece of the system instead of assuming too much of the reader. The core of the system is an Asus WL-520GU wireless router. It is supported by OpenWRT and has a USB port for use with an external audio card. mpd, Music Player Daemon, is used for playback. This latest part features adding an LCD display for the current track. The router board already has points for the serial port, so it’s just a matter of adding an AVR to talk to the LCD. The next step is building a simple user interface and then boxing everything up. You can view a video of the display below.
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Yay! di.fm!
I have been thinking about building a mp3 enabled open wrt router. but i was thinking more of making a bit banged spi port on the gpio pins and put a mp3 decoder board on that bus
w00t some one with a http://WWW.DI.FM premium account !!
good taste in music to :)
i have a R100 running openwrt that i bought ages ago to hack, maybe this is what will inspire me :)
I’ve got a di.fm premium account…
Never Leaves the 192k Hardcore (HappyHardcore.com) stream… ;)
would be awesome if it just got on any open wifi point and started streaming, probably quite usable in the city driving to work if the buffer for mpd was long enough.
I guess this would be a good time to mention that folks from DI do read this blog, eh?
Now I have to make this… Darn it!
How abouc using the router as a slimp3 client? SqueezeNetwork has a nice user interface. Combining madplay with slimp3slave (http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/slimp3slave/) should do it!
After see this i just say this SUPERB
I added a tuning control to the radio in my latest post. Check it out here:
http://mightyohm.com/blog/2009/02/building-a-wifi-radio-part-8-adding-a-tuning-control/