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either welcome to the Megaton back
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Channel today I would like to show you
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how you can
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during your old laptop into a so-called
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headless audio player so an audio player
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that you can connect to your hi-fi
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system and then stream mp3 files or
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stream from the Internet to your hi-5
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set using an older PC or an interface on
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your smartphone and we're gonna do that
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using bulimia I came across Lumina when
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I was working on a Raspberry Pi like
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this one turning it into a a media
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player and I also saw that there are
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some packages available for the
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Raspberry Pi to turn it into a headless
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audio player so we have a mock to play
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runeaudio route audio and also volume
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you know and the nice thing of premium
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is that they also have packages
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available for Intel based processors
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because Raspberry Pi and other systems
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are RM based chips computers with RM
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based chips and so aluminum is also
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available for Intel 32 bits and 46 bits
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chips so I'm just gonna show you how I
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did it for a very low-end laptop because
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I still had a small Asus or EPC 4G
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sitting around a very small laptop with
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only an 8-inch screen very tiny buttons
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came out in 2008 as half a gig of ram
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which I upgraded to one gig and four
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gigs of internal storage in solid-state
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a very tiny machine it had a custom
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version of Linux honor to be able to
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serve it on the internet a bit I use it
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on vacation to upload some photos and
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stuff to social media but yeah a very
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low-end device but the nice thing is it
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has a
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we card slot so you can run Volumnia
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from the SD card you could also install
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in the internal storage but it's still a
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bit of a little email but you can run it
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from any card so I'm just gonna about
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just wondering if premier would run on
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such a low end device and I am just
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going to show you how I went done okay
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so the first thing we need to do is to
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go to the limit or website and go to the
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download section there you can download
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the PC package which is the second from
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the top and you download that you're
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going to be downloaded and that's the
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power that you need to unzip and then
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there's a point image file dot image
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file and the directory takes about six
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minutes five minutes we're gonna wait
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for that and then you need of course you
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can follow the instructions below so you
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need to flash it onto the SD card so you
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need a SD card for geeks' eight gigs
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it's fine I'm gonna using a gloss six
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one that's what I what I already tested
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and that worked okay normally it's
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recommend to use a class 10 SD card and
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you have to flash it using a a image
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flash software they recommend here the
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win32diskimager I will be using a Rufus
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which is a similar type of photo so far
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so that's why the bits okay so the
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products downloaded so we're gonna go to
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the the download section now we have the
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zip file and we unzip it to a folder
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with the same name and I will be using a
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Rufus flash flashing to the SD card so
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we got a big heart already in its a
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gigabyte LT cards and we are going to
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look for the image that we would like to
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put in it that's former and you have to
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switch to all vowels because it's a dot
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image file open and then Rufus is ready
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to start to format and flash the image
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to the Indigo they'll call you get a
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warning that all data will be erased
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okay under Venus and then we need a bit
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of patience
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you
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okay so it finished so we can close it
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and we can remove the SD card okay so
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we're now ready to start with the laptop
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one so add the SD card here gonna insert
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it into the SD card slots I've connected
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the laptop to the the power to the
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network via LAN cable and I've got a
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speaker attached to it just for testing
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it and we can read now we can go and see
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what happens we switch you know
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you
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you
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okay you know the interface is starting
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up on W interface is starting up on
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screen that still takes a while
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okay and there is the the interface of
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Columbia on the laptop and now we are
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going to switch back to the to the
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desktop computer okay now we go to the
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web interface of bulimia and here you
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see the web interface of Columbia and
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now you can still do a lot of settings
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you have to have to change initially VOC
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sample with playback options I'm going
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to set it to the headphone jack because
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that's the one that we are using start
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of volume I'm gonna put at 50 and the
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maximum volume okay and we're going to
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save that and that's saved in network
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you can set up your Wi-Fi I'm not gonna
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do that at the moment and you can also
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install plugins so we're gonna do that
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we're gonna install a Spotify plug-in
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install
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so we can use Spotify on volume you know
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you need a premium premium package
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premium account to be able to use it
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within volume you
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you
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so with the plug-in installed we can
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treat it all and we have to enter the
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the Spotify credential to use it okay so
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we so I installed the Spotify plug-in
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and I restarted the laptop so now we are
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going to do some playback from Spotify
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playlists
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and say bleh
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okay now I have to switch on the speaker
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yes and we can alter the the volume from
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the PC and it's using the speaker for
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playback and work sure why today maybe
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switch to another phone
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the only problem that we still have is
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the following let me show you yeah so if
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the lid of the laptop is closed then the
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music is interrupted and that's
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something new of course you you don't
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want oh I'm gonna open it up again
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and it's in suspend mode when into the
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closes so we'll start playing right away
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when you open it again but of course
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that's not really helpful as it is a
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headless audio player we should be able
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to use it well while the latest is
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closed so that's something we have to we
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have to change and that's a simple way
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to do that and I'm not going to show
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that but then we have to straight back
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to the PC first of all we have to look
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what the IP addresses of the novel email
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setups are on the laptop so that's one
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nine two eight one eight one six eight a
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one or five seven and then we have to
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open an SSH session to this device when
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you use the program called putty and
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we're gonna enter the IP address that we
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just saw enter and then the log in the
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fourth default Laurine is full email and
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the password is also called in
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okay so now we're in and now we have to
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enter the following command system CTL
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mask sleep to orbit suspended or target
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I've been a doctorate here hybrid -
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sleep doctorate and that will suspend
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every suspend mode hibernation mode when
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every trigger to go into sleep mode is
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shut down of course this has the
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implication that you have to put the
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laptop on the power supply because
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otherwise if it runs out of juice
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when you're running it it could damage
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the SD card so that's the the one thing
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that you need to keep in mind and but
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now when I press ENTER then these these
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settings are saved and we're gonna
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reboot and I'll do that now by typing a
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reboot in the SSH session okay so now
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the laptop will be rebooted
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and the strange thing is that the the
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web interface on the PC is already up
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while the interface is still not on the
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screen there but okay so we're back
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again and I'm gonna play back again and
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I'm going to close the lid again and you
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see that playback is just continuing and
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we can still control volume line before
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so that fixed it
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okay so I showed how how to fix this
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issue now we're gonna open it up again
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because I also would like to show how
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you can control using your smart phone
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so I've got my smart phone here
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and I've already show in the web browser
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you can enter all for the IP address of
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your of your bulimia set up or the Lumia
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logo or a local slash and then you get
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the the same web interface on your on
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your smartphone and so I'm now going to
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do the playback
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[Music]
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already gonna switch
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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okay so I showed you how to install a
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Lumia on this EPC this netbook and I
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showed that works quite well you can
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control out feiiow PC or via your
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smartphone and I also showed you a trick
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to prevent that when you close the lid
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the music will be interrupted I hope you
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liked this this tutorial and if you have
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an EPC I would say that's another way to
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use it I hope you enjoyed this this
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tutorial and I hope you will tune in
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next time
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you

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A tutorial to show how to turn your old laptop into a so called headless audioplayer, which you can connect to your HiFi and control via webinterface on a computer or smartphone using Volumio. More background info, you can be read my blog: https://www.meganton.com/en/2016/10/21/streaming-audio-to-your-hifi-just-use-an-old-laptop/ Also in Dutch! https://www.meganton.com/nl/2016/10/21/audio-streamen-naar-je-hifi-gebruik-een-oude-laptop/ This my first video on my channel. If you like it, like it. Filmed using recorded using a Mobius Cam and OBS software, edited using Powerdirector 13.

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