While there are other good software for audio playing, none of them works fully offline (mopidy) or doesn't natively support GPIO buttons (omxplayer): PiratePlayer to the rescue!
while browsing menu:
press A to scroll up
press B to scroll down
press X to select current file
press Y to go back
while playing:
press A to stop and go back to menu
press B to decrease volume
press X to play//pause
press Y to increase volume
Install requirements for gstreamer and hifiberry dac
then make sure you have installed:
gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev libcairo2-dev
and enable GPIO SPI - check RPiconfig if not sure how
PiratePlayer runs with python >= 3.5
$ virtualenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip3 install --editable .
$ pirateplayer
install pirateplayer from pip
launch install.sh
FAQs
PiratePlayer is an offline player for Pirate Audio
We found that pirateplayer demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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