Pirate player for pirate audio

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hi i’m new and a total noob, but i have a question about the pirate audio

i’ve tried to install pirateplayer for the pirate audio but when i try to start “pirateplayer” i’ve get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/.local/bin/pirateplayer”, line 10, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pirateplayer/main.py”, line 20, in main
pins = confparse.get_pins()
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pirateplayer/utils/confparse.py”, line 24, in get_pins
return list(_CONF[‘BUTTON’].getint(btn) for btn in _CONF[‘BUTTON’])
File “/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py”, line 958, in getitem
raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: ‘BUTTON’

i dunno what i’m doing wrong, like i said i’m a totally noob, maybe someone can help me
i wanted to create a mp3 player that i can use offline not with mopidy which i’ve allready tried

best regards Ghurkki

2

Haven’t used it, but looking at the source code it is trying to read the config file.
In /home/pi/.config/pirateplayer there should be a file called conf.ini that contains

[PLAYER]
root = ~/Music

[BUTTON]
a = 5
b = 6
x = 16
y = 20

If that file does not exist (it should have been created by the installer) you need to create it.
Don’t know if that helps.

3

If you have a look at the buttons.py example y is gpio 24, not 20. I think there may have been a hardware change at some point? In any case you may want to see what pin yours uses and make sure your config file matches.

4

thanks for all reply i managed to use the pirateplayer now, but now i try to make an autostart for this application and i fail again i dunno how to do it

5

What type of file are you trying to autostart? I use crontab to start my python files on boot up.

6

Check to see if there is a file /home/pi/.config/systemd/user/pirateplayer.service
(this should have been created if you ran the install.sh script).
If not, create the file (and directories if needed) and put the following in it

[Unit]
Description=PiratePlayer Service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pirateplayer

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Then if you run the command
systemctl --user enable pirateplayer.service

it should then start when the pi is started.

Note: I don’t use pirateplayer myself, just just based on looking at the code in github

7

well crap i’m really a noob, but i can’t access /home/pi/.config/systemd/user/pirateplayer.service there isn’t a folder systemd (only those lxpanel pirateplayer user-dirs.dirs user-dirs.locale venv )
?

8

ok, to make the directory, use
mkdir -p /home/pi/.config/systemd/user/

Then create the file.

(mkdir is the command to create a directory, the -p option tells it to create all the directories in the path, so it creates any of the missing directories for you)

9

by the way, because .config starts with a dot, it is a hidden file, ls will not show it, ls -a will

10

it doesn’t seems that installed it right, there is no pirateplayer in usr/bin/

12

Hi @Ghurkki – did you manage to get it sorted in the end?

I too am a n00b and struggling to get PiratePlayer installed… Any help appreciated.

13

Hi, i sadly didn’t had enough time to find a working solution maybe u will have more time this spring to try it again

14

After a lot of effort and basically through trial and error, I managed to get the base install working. The steps I took are here in case you or anyone else finds them useful. Thanks to @alphanumeric and @terminalpi for their suggestions which were key to getting it working.

I plan to try an autostart too. Any pointers appreciated.

15

Thanks for the link, i got to the point where I could start the program via terminal, but didn’t manage to make it Autostart will try maybe in two weeks or so