[tech] [committee] UCC Technologies

[Emma Krantz]

Damien,

Hello from a few blocks down college row! (St George's)

I couldn't really find anything other than Mopidy when I was doing my
research. You might want something more like this? http://getfestify.com/

Emma
[EJK]
Education VP
On 10 Jan 2016 12:36 am, "Damian Worsdell" <damian at bloom.org.au> wrote:

> Cheers Andrew!
> Thank you so much for the detailed information.
>
> --
>
> tech@,
>
> I’m interested in what you guys are doing with your RPi called Eggman.
> I’ve investigated Mopidy and attempted to use it, but so far using several
> web GUI’s users still have to individually authenticate to Spotify.
>
> Are there any other services your technology team has investigated?
> We’re only looking for an extremely simple setup using a Spotify account
> we’ll provide for the members of Bloom to use over a web GUI.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Warm regards,
>
> [image: Bloom] <http://bloom.org.au/>
>
> Damian Worsdell / BloomTech Team
> damian at bloom.org.au / +61 448 793 747
>
> Bloom
> BloomLab, St Catherine's College 2 Park Rd, Crawley WA 6009
> bloom.org.au
>
> On 8 January 2016 at 8:31:15 PM, Andrew Adamson (bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au)
> wrote:
>
> Hi Damian,
>
> The system in the clubroom has just been replaced - old robotnik was
> having a few hardware problems I believe, and it has been replaced with a
> raspberry pi called eggman.
>
> Robotnik was an x86 machine (I don't recall much more about the hardware),
> running ubuntu or debian. The music was mostly stored on an nfs share,
> with a little local storage on robotnik itself for playlists and
> user-uploaded content. We use an assortment of interfaces for it; locally
> on robotnik there was phpmp as a web interface as well as ncmpc as a
> command line interface. We also had Ario on most of the desktop as part of
> the SOE, but I don't think that got used much.
>
> Eggman is still being set up. For now I think someone has just stuck MPD
> on it so we can have basic music services. The plan in the future is to
> install something that has spotify support in addition to the mpd
> capabilities, such as mopidy. I believe members also want the ability to
> drag/drop youtube links on to the interface to make it play those over the
> speakers too.
>
> Shoot an email to tech@ if you have any further questions.
>
> Andrew Adamson
> bob at ucc.asn.au
>
> |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them." |
> | ---Peter's Laws |
>
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Damian Worsdell wrote:
>
> > G’day UCC,
> >
> > I’m a member of the tech team at Bloom, a self-funded student startup
> co-working space running out of St. Catherine's across the road.
> > We’re embarking on a number of projects this year, and in particular
> we’re interested in the music system that UCC currently operates.
> > Aside from purchasing a Chromecast Audio and calling it a day, I was
> wondering if a member of UCC could quickly help us out with some
> information regarding your setup.
> >
> > Looking forward to your response!
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Damian Worsdell / BloomTech Team
> > damian at bloom.org.au / +61 448 793 747
> >
> > Bloom
> > BloomLab, St Catherine's College 2 Park Rd, Crawley WA 6009
> > bloom.org.au
>
>
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