Usage

Powering on

Simply plug in in the power plug. The disco will boot and after a while you'll hear some beeps and a voice. The disco is now ready.

Playing songs

Press the shiny red button. Duh.

Powering off

Press the shiny red button. Wait until the song is almost over (abou 15 seconds). Then press and hold the red button until you hear some beeps and a voice. The disco will now shut down. Unfortunately there is no way to tell if the disco has completely shut down. However after 5 minutes or so the disco is normally shut down. You can now pull the power plug.

Contributing

Want a song in the disco? Sure, if it fits the set! Send a ~15 second snippet as wav to tilman-disco@t-animal.de. No guarantees that it will be included.

Fork me on https://github.com/t-animal/pocketdisco

Administration

Commands

Volume: alsamixer to set volume then sudo alsactl store 0
Get debugging log: journalctl -rb disco.service

Debugging

As the disco runs as a systemd service, check journalctl -rb disco.service in case of problems.

Folder structure

Put all files belonging to a feature set into a folder as .wav-files. Put that folder into the /dj-sets folder. To select a dj-set, symlink it to dj-sets/ current.

Here's a sample:

.
├── disco.sh
├── pulseaudio.service
├── disco.service
└── dj-sets
    ├── current -> ./dj-sets/disco
    ├── party.wav
    ├── poweroff.wav
    ├── disco/
    │   ├── stayin_alive.wav
    │   ├── barbara-streisand.wav
    │   ├── i_will_survive.wav
    │   ├── ymca.wav
    │   ├── rickroll.wav
    │   ├── i_wanna_dance.wav
    │   └── nightfever.wav
    └── karneval/
        ├── atemlos.wav
        ├── polonaise.wav
        ├── knall-rotes-gummiboot.wav
        ├── supergeile-zick.wav
        ├── pferd-aufm-flur.wav
        ├── viva-frankonia.wav
        ├── holzmichel.wav
        ├── holz.wav
        ├── fliegerlied.wav
        └── moskau.wav