Album Art on Adafruit’s 64×64 LED Matrix @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Here’s a very cool approach to displaying album art with our 64×64 LED Matrix and Raspberry Pi. Here’s more from the Raspberry Pi Blog:

The maker turned to PowerShell – a cross-platform task automation solution – to create a script (available on GitHub) that tells the Raspberry Pi which album is playing, and sends it the album artwork for display on the LED matrix.

Raspberry Pi runs a flaschen-taschen server to display the album artwork. The PowerShell script runs a ‘send image’ command every time the album art updates. Then the Raspberry Pi switches the display to reflect what is now playing. In the demo video, the maker runs this from iTunes, but says that any compatible music player (ie: Spotify) will work too.

See more!

64×64 RGB LED Matrix – 2.5mm Pitch – 1/32 Scan