{"id":11265,"date":"2014-10-22T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11265"},"modified":"2014-10-22T08:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T08:48:30","slug":"raspberry-pi-powered-media-player-uses-real-cassettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11265","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi powered media player uses real cassettes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cassette_player.jpg?resize=560%2C370&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cassette_player\" width=\"560\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cassette_player.jpg?w=761&amp;ssl=1 761w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cassette_player.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Brailsford has taken an old cassette player and stuffed it full of electronics with a Raspberry Pi at the core. The player reads NFC tags which are embedded inside the physical cassette tapes to choose Spotify playlists and there is a custom circuit board beneath the old, physical buttons that\u00a0trigger commands on the Pi to pause, stop, play etc. You can see a video of the player in action below.\u00a0<em>Photo credit:\u00a0Matt Brailsford<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dX4rxSc7nn0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Brailsford has taken an old cassette player and stuffed it full of electronics with a Raspberry Pi at the core. The player reads NFC tags which are embedded inside the physical cassette tapes to choose Spotify playlists and there&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11265\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,50,31,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-making","category-music","category-retro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raspberry Pi powered media player uses real cassettes! - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11265\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raspberry Pi powered media player uses real cassettes! - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Matt Brailsford has taken an old cassette player and stuffed it full of electronics with a Raspberry Pi at the core. 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