audio-reactive-led-strip VS Mopidy

Thanks for the pointers! After digging a bit more, I found https://github.com/scottlawsonbc/audio-reactive-led-strip which looks like an excellent end-to-end setup that's also easy to explore further from. Can't wait to sink lots of hours into it :D

So I do think it's pretty well accepted that coding in python is easier for new programmers than coding in Arduino/C/C++. I don't have any experience working with the seeduino boards, and I don't have any experience doing sound reactive projects, but this project on GitHub really looks like it's exactly what you're looking for if you are okay with moving the the RPi: https://github.com/scottlawsonbc/audio-reactive-led-strip

A custom version of "Device Mic" was implemented taking code from here but need to be improved. Hope you like it :)

Straight to the point. I want to integrate this: Music Reactive LED's into my car. I plan for everything to be behind the dash. I am adept with soldering, basic IT and small electronics (having made my own button box and peripheral input converter). However these seems a bit more advanced purely because of my requirements.

LedFX sounds great if you want to control many different strips in a network. For a standalone Raspberry Pi, there is also this project, which I meant to try out for some time but did not come around to. It has a lot more features than my implementation.

In order to use audio visualization with speakers you can use this library that someone made. https://github.com/scottlawsonbc/audio-reactive-led-strip From what I’m seeing, in order to use audio from your pc/headphones instead of from your speakers you have to program it yourself. You’ll notice they do something similar in the microphone.py but it uses your microphone from your pc. Instead of the microphone it just needs to use the input audio. I was going to modify this library to do that but it needs a esp2866 which I currently don’t have.

Lots and lots of FOSS music players use libspotify or can otherwise connect to your Spotify account.

Here's just one. It's BYO frontend. https://mopidy.com/

Probably a good time to give a shout out to Mopidy: https://mopidy.com/

Though as for myself, I'm still running Squeezebox - nothing like being able to SSH into your smart speaker and mess around with the Perl system that's running it.

Have you tried Mopidy or MPD daemon? There's even a mopidy-party extension that is

I've tried several times to get mpd working over a network. The only way I got it to work was with mopidy. At some point it broke and I moved on to jellyfin instead. Too bad, because I love ncmpcpp as a client.

I have a music library on my home server that I use mopidy to play via the iris plugin integrated into my home assistant UI. It plays over Snapcast which streams over the network to multiple devices in the home with independent volume control. I can fire up the Snapcast client in my phone to get it going there as well, which does work over vpn if I'm away, though I generally just fire up the files from my phones SD card for out-of-home listening. I recently started using whipper on Linux to extract audio from craigslist cds.

https://mopidy.com/

https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

Could instead use Mopidy as the music player, which has plugins for Spotify and Airplay support.

Thanks! I use it on a daily basis, but I don’t think it’s ready for a wider adoption yet — for example, a pause button is still missing ... I’d be curious to know your experience with it though! For something more stable, you might like Mopidy.

Right now I'm reading about mopidy and iris (I have a server with some docker services and it would be nice using it as a Spotify connect device), I think this setup could be extended with extra algorithms, maybe they already exist as modipy extensions. I've never gone into detail about these but I'll do it!