Mastering Media with the Raspberry Pi

Mastering Media with the Raspberry Pi: Media Centers, Music, High End Audio, Video, and Ultimate Movie Nights

Create and maintain Raspberry Pi-based entertainment systems in a comprehensive and fun manner. Instead of front-loading a bunch of theory and minutia, this book takes a more practical approach of showing what’s needed when it’s needed.

You’ll first explore the possibilities and options available. Then you’ll learn the hardware and software requirements based on various builds and projects. Finally, you’ll be guided through building media centers, music players, recording studios, etc. Mastering Media with the Raspberry Pi presents all of this and more in an easy-to-understand-and-accomplish way, in plain English.

What you’ll learn:

• Choose the right Pi model for your project
• Enhance your media center with peripherals and add ons
• Get the most from your music and other media
• Understand the various major media formats out there and how to work with each

Who this book is for:

Students and hobbyists interested in building media centers out of their Raspberry Pis.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Which RPi Model Is Right for You?
Chapter 2: Power
Chapter 3: Storage
Chapter 4: Constructing a Complete Media Center
Chapter 5: Let’s Make a Media Center
Chapter 6: Optimizing Your Media Center
Chapter 7: Kodi in General
Chapter 8: Pictures and Video
Chapter 9: A Musical Interlude with Kodi
Chapter 10: Music Libraries
Chapter 11: Video Libraries and Other Sources
Chapter 12: Backup and Updating
Chapter 13: Managing Your Libraries
Chapter 14: System Management
Chapter 15: Adding Add-Ons
Chapter 16: Live TV, Netflix, Amazon, the Universe!
Chapter 17: Conclusions and the Future