Moode Audio

[D.M. Procida]

Has anyone tried Moode Audio <http://moodeaudio.org>?

I wish I could report on it - but I haven't even been able to get it set
up and installed. Its lack of installation guidance is extraordinary.

Apparently in this thread of some 1200+ pages
<http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/271811-moode-audio-player-raspberry-pi.html>,
there are some instructions...

I'm sure that once up and running it's great, but life's just too short.

Daniele

[Joerg Walther]

D.M. Procida wrote:

>I wish I could report on it - but I haven't even been able to get it set
>up and installed. Its lack of installation guidance is extraordinary.

This here:

"Enter these commands via SSH on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.

1. Download the Image Builder

cd /home/pi
sudo wget -q http://moodeaudio.org/downloads/mos/mosbuild.sh -O
/home/pi/mosbuild.sh
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/mosbuild.sh

2. Start the Image Builder

sudo ./mosbuild.sh"

...sounds pretty straightforward to me. It didn't work?

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[D.M. Procida]

Joerg Walther <use...@vocabsheets.de> wrote:

> D.M. Procida wrote:
>
> >I wish I could report on it - but I haven't even been able to get it set
> >up and installed. Its lack of installation guidance is extraordinary.
>
> This here:
>
> "Enter these commands via SSH on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
>
> 1. Download the Image Builder
>
> cd /home/pi
> sudo wget -q http://moodeaudio.org/downloads/mos/mosbuild.sh -O
> /home/pi/mosbuild.sh
> sudo chmod +x /home/pi/mosbuild.sh
>
> 2. Start the Image Builder
>
> sudo ./mosbuild.sh"
>
> ...sounds pretty straightforward to me. It didn't work?

I have no idea. Things happened for a while. Were they the right things?
Who knows? Then they stoppped happening, and there was absolutely no
indication whatsoever what to do next. How to launch, configure, use it?
A mystery.

Daniele

[Helmut Harnisch]

Am 29.12.2017 um 12:39 schrieb D.M. Procida:
> I have no idea. Things happened for a while. Were they the right things?
> Who knows? Then they stoppped happening, and there was absolutely no
> indication whatsoever what to do next. How to launch, configure, use it?
> A mystery.

the script does the following:
(from the shellscript itself):

echo
"****************************************************************"
echo "**"
echo "** Moode OS Image Builder $VER"
echo "**"
echo "** Welcome to the automated process for creating the
wonderful"
echo "** custom Linux OS that runs moOde audio player."
echo "**"
echo "** You will need a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian with SSH"
echo "** enabled, at least 2.5GB free space on the boot SDCard and"
echo "** a spare USB or USB-SDCard drive that the new OS will be"
echo "** written to during the build process."
echo "**"
echo "** Be sure to backup the SDCard used to boot your Pi"
**************************************************************************

that is, you need 1) a pi with raspbian. 2)enough space on the boot sd.
3) an usb drive on which the image will be written.

after run the shellscript (it tests if the usb drive is there, loads a
raspbian, configures the ethernet and asks for configuration and
plugins) you have a usb drive from which you boot your new rpi.

the script says:
echo "**"
echo "** New base OS image created"
echo "**"
echo "** Remove the USB drive and use it to boot a
Raspberry Pi"
echo "** The build will automatically continue at STEP 2
after boot"
**********************************************************************

I myself didnt do this, because my pi runs osmc. But I have looked
inside the script and told you what it does.
Hope I could make it clearer....

[Rob Morley]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:34:11 +0000
real-not-anti...@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote:

> Has anyone tried Moode Audio <http://moodeaudio.org>?
>

That says it's audiophool-quality, so not intended for normal people.

[D.M. Procida]

Helmut Harnisch <h...@hamburg.de> wrote:

> Am 29.12.2017 um 12:39 schrieb D.M. Procida:
> > I have no idea. Things happened for a while. Were they the right things?
> > Who knows? Then they stoppped happening, and there was absolutely no
> > indication whatsoever what to do next. How to launch, configure, use it?
> > A mystery.
> the script does the following:
> (from the shellscript itself):
>

> [deletia]

>
> I myself didnt do this, because my pi runs osmc. But I have looked
> inside the script and told you what it does.
> Hope I could make it clearer....

Yup, done that. Then I boot up a Pi with the newly built image... and
what?

There's a login prompt. No readily findable username/password is
advertised, though I eventually discovered it's pi/moodeaudio.

I'm assuming at this point that something has gone wrong, and that if it
had all worked correctly, that there'd be a web server running at its IP
address, or even a local GUI up and running.

Of course even well-written, carefully designed software sometimes
fails, because the real world is a complex place. But software that
comes without even the most basic indication of what you could expect to
happen is throwing up some pretty high barriers to new users!

Daniele