Loading USB CD drives in Volumio

[jmascreen]

I don't use Win-10 but am on 64bit Windows 7 and the SMB share is straight forward.

In your Windows Machine
Like you have done create a shared folder and under sharing give read/write access to 'Everyone' for that folder.

In Volumio
Do the following configurations
Give any suitable Alias Name
Udner NAS IP Adress - Keyin your "Computer Name" (which is permanent) instead of IP address as it is dynamically assigned by your router unless you have a fixed one.
Under Path just type the name of your "Shared Folder"
Click save and enter your PC "Username" and login "Password" in the pop-up window.
Next the Volumio will automatically mount your windows shared folder and update the library.
Here is the Screen Shot below

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You can view your "Alias Name" now under the "NAS" in the Volumio "Music Library".
The music files in your shared folder will be now under the 'Alias Name".

When you put in hostname instead of IP, dns resolution happen at router or local host file based?

 

[jls001]

When you put in hostname instead of IP, dns resolution happen at router or local host file based?

Yes, it does. I tried as suggested by Kannan and it works just like IP address.

 

[jls001]

I have successfully mounted two music folders from two 2TB internal HDDs. It's been 13+ hours and Volumio is still building up the library from these two folders.

It's been more than 48 hours and the Volumio hasn't completed building the library

 

[Kannan]

It's been more than 48 hours and the Volumio hasn't completed building the library

Yes...it is a big pain. This was discussed in an other thread to bypass the mpd and just load it as a shared folder. After that you just pick and choose the song to play on the network

 

[Kannan]

Sometimes duplicate files, unrecignised files can cause unprecedented delays, with often Volumio crashing

 

[zburic]

I have an error installing the plugin. Here I posted pictures to see what the error is.

 

[zburic]

I have been using the USBridge as the primary transport in my audio setup.
I have also been inching to get USB CD or DVD drives to work in Volumio so that I can also play my Audio CD collection.

Some work in this regard is being done by some geeks and they have also achieved success to some extent.
CD plugin thread: Volumio Forum

Though it is not natively available in Volumio, it can be separately installed as a plugin.
Since USBridge, which uses the Sparky board, has a special Volumio version, I was not sure if the 3rd party update will work with the Sparky version of Volumio.
So I did not want to risk bricking the Volumio on USBridge, so instead experimented it with my old laptop.

With the following steps I was able to play Audio CD off my Transcend USB DVD drive connected to the laptop running Volumio:
The plugin also deducted the laptop internal CD drive and successfully played the audio tracks from it also.

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Download Volumio for PC(X86/X64 version) and write the image file into a pen drive using image writer like "win32diskimager".
Volumio image download
Win32diskimager download

Boot Volumio on the laptop from the pen drive. (You need to set your pen drive as the 1st boot device in BIOS).

After Volumio boots successfully, connect it to your network through wifi or ethernet port. (I suggest via ethernet port).

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Now you need another PC (or you mobile) on the same network to SSH into the Volumio.
Use 'Putty' or any other tool to SSH into Volumio

I followed the following procedure. available on the above linked Volumio forum.
All the commands that I have marked in bold, you can just copy and paste into the SSH terminal.

Step 1 : As SSH is disabled by default in Volumio, you first need to enable it.
In the PC browser, login to the DEV page of Volumio:
http://volumio.local/DEV or (http://the ip address of volumio/DEV
Under SSH, click on 'Enable'
You can now close this page on the browser.

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Step 2:
Open Putty or whichever SSH tool you are using in your PC.
Enter the ipaddress of Volumio in Putty and click connect and follow the screen commands.
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It will open the terminal window of Volumio (it will look like the command prompt window)
user name: volumio
password: volumio or to whatever you have changed it to.

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Step 2:
Copy and paste or type in the following command one after the other into terminal, and press enter after each command. Wait for the procedure to complete before entering the next command.

apt-get update
Press enter. wait for the procedure to complete (this will take sometime and download and install stuff from the internet.

apt-get upgrade
Press enter. wait for the procedure to complete

apt-get install make g++ libudev-dev
Press enter. wait for the procedure to complete (this may take sometime)

sudo npm install npm@latest -g
Press enter, you will be asked for the password as you have used sudo command.
key in the password (same as you entered before) and press enter and wait for the procedure to complete.

git clone --single-branch -b f/cdplayer https://github.com/geeks-r-us/volumio-plugins.git
then press enter. wait for the procedure to complete (this may take sometime)
Just copy the entire line from 'git clone'.....to 'plugins.git'....don't click on the blue line..it is part of the full command.

cd volumio-plugins/plugins/music_service/cdplayer/
then press enter. wait for the procedure to complete

npm install
then press enter. wait for the procedure to complete
Just ignore warnings and error codes if any.

sudo npm install typescript -g
then press enter. wait for the procedure to complete

tsc index.ts
press enter and wait for procedure to complete
You will get some errors, but ignore again

volumio plugin install
press enter. This will install the plugin under Volumio GUI.

Once the plugin install completes, you should see it in the plug-in manager section in Volumio under Installed Plugins.
Just set the slider to "On" and you should see the Active/Inactive indicator go green.

Now you can connect a USB CD or DVD drive, and play your CDs.
If there are skipping issues, just play around with the buffer under 'Playback' settings.

Here are some pics of the CD plugin in the Volumio running on my laptop

The CD plugin
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Home Page with the Audio CD option
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CD Track List after loading a Audio CD in the drive.
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Track in CD playing
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I have an error installing the plugin. Here I posted pictures to see what the error is.