Pirate MP3 - Rev. 2 updates

• Refactor into frontend, core, backend, hardware for easier maintenance.
• Powersaving option for screen dim
• Screen response upgrade
• Better boot time and sync check time
• Independant button functions on the frontend for easy modifications
• Splash Screen

A quick and dirty MP3 player for Pirate Audio.

You must place your music in the "music" folder.

Case for pirate-audio with speaker and rpi zero 2 w and some funky buttons: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6776425

To upgrate from git

cd /home/pi/pirate-mp3-ehnaced_options git pull sudo reboot

To Install

SSH into fresh install
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y sudo apt install git -y
git clone this repo

Samba:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install samba samba-common-bin -y
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
Add to the end of the file for each share:

[pirateMP3]
path = /home/pi/pirate-mp3-enhanced_options/music
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
public=no

Setup samba password and user:
sudo smbpasswd -a pi
enter password
setup network folder on windows machine

Config

Modify /boot/fireware/config.txt (get sound working on Pirate-Audio)
sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt
add to line 5:
dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac gpio=25=op,dh

sudo raspi-confi enable i2c and spi

User Groups:

usermod -a -G spi,i2c,gpio,video,audio pi

SETUP PYTHON VENV

python -m venv /home/pi/venv/
source /home/pi/venv/bin/activate
pip install -r /home/pi/python/pirate-mp3-enhanced_options/mp3/requirements.txt
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.13-dev
git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/st7789-python
cd st7789-python
./install.sh
pip install https://github.com/Gadgetoid/PY_LGPIO/releases/download/0.2.2.0/lgpio-0.2.2.0.tar.gz
Requirements should install ok, there is some pain around st7789 libraries and the lgpio used as a pin library in gpiozero, hopefully this should work

Service

Move .service file to correct location
sudo mv /home/pi/pirate-mp3-enhanced_options/mp3/pirate-mp3.service /etc/systemd/system/

#Enable service at boot
sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable pirate-mp3 && sudo systemctl start pirate-mp3

#Create logrotate limit on log file
sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/pirate-mp3
into the file put:
/var/log/pirate-mp3.log
{
weekly
minsize 1M
maxsize 10M
rotate 4
missingok
notifempty
}

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Adding Music

Music must be in mp3 format, arranged into subfolders and include a cover.jpg or cover.png album art file. If the folder does not include cover art, it will use the crappy default. Suimilar can be done for audiobooks - each folder is the book with track chapters inside. cover.jpg adn cover.png still apply (it still sees them as albums).

EG:

music/
├── Sabrepulse - Exile
│   ├── cover.png
│   ├── Sabrepulse - Exile - 01 The Artist & The Engineer.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - Exile - 02 Further To Etherworld.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - Exile - 03 Familiar.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - Exile - 04 Banish.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - Exile - 05 Hayati.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - Exile - 06 Exit Berlin.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - Exile - 07 1985.mp3
│   └── Sabrepulse - Exile - 08 In The End We Are All Cosmic.mp3
├── Sabrepulse - First Crush
│   ├── cover.png
│   ├── Sabrepulse - First Crush - 01 First Crush (Featuring Knife City).mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - First Crush - 02 The Advantage (Featuring Henry Homesweet).mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - First Crush - 03 City At Speed.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - First Crush - 04 Arcanine.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - First Crush - 05 Paradise.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - First Crush - 06 The Rapture.mp3
│   ├── Sabrepulse - First Crush - 07 Futureproof.mp3
│   └── Sabrepulse - First Crush - 08 We Were Young.mp3