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Radio Station Pi

Using Raspberry Pi to stream audio (from a Windows pc) to a PA system I've been looking at some of the projects available out there for Raspberry Pi, and I'm trying to find something to occupy my time as a hobby. I really like working with the Raspberry Pi (I've only got version b+) and have been trying different projects out. One of the projects I successfully created was using a pi to be a digital display unit in the foyer of the school I work at. After experimenting with a few things, (Feh and PiPresents) I've got it working well (with PiPresentsNext) which also includes NAS on the Pi, with a "aways live" folder accessible from pcs on the network. As a picture or video is added, it will automatically add it to the current slideshow of photos and videos. :) I also added the pandora/pianobar process to it too, so I can have it play music if I want. I might add my method I used to build it on here. One project that wasn't successful, was trying to