At the company I work at we sometimes throw a party to celebrate the day! Unfortunately we have very different tastes of music. So solve that I setup a Raspberry PI so everyone can vote for their music. What could go wrong? :P
First step was to setup Mopidy on a Raspberry PI with pulseaudio or just alsa. As there are already a lot of tutorials available I’ll skip this one.
Next install Mopidy-Party and other extensions for music sources. You’ll probably want the Mopidy-Spotify to have a variety of music available. It does not make sense to just include your music! Even if you’d like to do that ;).
This will add a new entry to the landing page on http://raspberrypi:8080/ There is no limit on how many tracks you can add to the queue. There is only a minimum amount of votes defined to skip the current track. Even with the missing limit for adding it works pretty well!
This is a sample from my mopidy config:
[audio]
#mixer = software
#mixer_volume =
#output = autoaudiosink
#buffer_time =
[mpd]
#enabled = true
hostname = ::
#port = 80
password =
[http]
enabled = true
hostname = ::
port = 8080
#static_dir =
#zeroconf = Mopidy HTTP server on $hostname
#allowed_origins =
#csrf_protection = true
[spotify]
username = <username>
password = <password>
client_id = <client_id>
client_secret = <client_secret>
[party]
enabled = true
votes_to_skip = 6
[moped]
enabled = false
[musicbox_webclient]
enabled = false
Make sure to disable any non-party web clients. Else your party guests will find the access to it.
Especially when they are other engineers! To have this admin power myself I use mpd to control the
playback. Not many people would run nmap to find this open port.
With about 15 guests a votes_to_skip count of 6 worked well. Make sure nobody uses multiple phones!
Please note that in order to change that you need to restart Mopidy and will loose your current
playlist.
Happy party!