Snakeoil Firmware - 1.2.8 (Gear Isolation U8)

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Being a non linux person, it was very difficult for me to set up snake oil os. After a lot of reading and experimenting, I couldn't get the hdd to mount and there is no spotify also.

By definition, none of us are Linux persons. I am a Google-Linux person; ie Google the Linux command and follow it.

What HDD are you using, is it internally mounted, or using USB? There is Spotify Connect (though I am not sure anyone here is using it) and also a Spotify plugin in LMS/Squeezelite.

All of us have to start somewhere. If you stay, we will help as much as our knowledge permits...

Thanks @Snoopy8 for the encouraging words.

Fair enough. Here goes.

1. Installed the Raspbian OS with desktop 32 bit using raspberry pi imager. Activated ssh and wifi using the advance settings of the imager.
2. Booted and ssh into it using Putty. Ran sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade to get the latest updates. Rebooted.
3. Copied the snakeoil installer 1.2.6 using filezilla and ran the sudo bash installation command. got errors at the end regarding squeezelite and lms not installed. Since I plan to use mpd and spotify only, I stated the webos to play music.
4. HDD is externally powered and installed on a usb port. DAC is Allo revolution on another usb port.
5. Web inteface gives a warning to uninstall pulseaudio as it may interfere with the sound quality. On clicking the uninstall buttion and rebooting snakeoil os again gives the same warning. Cant understand why pulseaudio is not being uninstalled.
6. Selected mpd as player and output on usb.
7. The hdd is show along wiith the other partitions of the micro sd card. Tried to select it for building the database but no go.

Please tell me how to go about :
a. The errors regarding squeelzite and lms not installing. Removing pulseaudio.
b. Mounting the hdd and bulding the database.
c. Spotify client access.

If I need to flash some other os other than raspbian that I installed, please let me know which one. Looking forward to your suggestions.

Regards