The first thing we need to do is to go to the RuneAudio website(www.runeaudio.com). Once on the website click one of the download buttons to get to a page that will list all of the different types of hardware RuneAudio runs on. Then find your version of RaspberryPi and download the corresponding image file. With the image file downloaded open Etcher, find the image you just downloaded, select your microsd card, and flash! Once this is done we're ready to move on to the RaspberryPi!

There are two ways to set up the RuneAudio UI. If you have a monitor and keyboard available you can plug them in and finish the setup directly on the RaspberryPi. If you don't we can set it up over your network. I did the over network setup so that is what I will cover here. However both setups are pretty similar. To do setup over the network plug your RaspberryPi into your network via an Ethernet cable and power it on. The next step is to connect to your RaspberryPi from another computer on your network. To do this open your preferred web browser and on windows go to http://runeaudio or http://runeaudio. or the ip address of your RaspberryPi. On MacOS go to http://runeaudio.local You will now be in the RuneAudio user interface and we can get everything else set up from there.

The first thing I did after accessing the user interface was to set up the wifi adapter. To do this I entered the networking section of the settings by selecting the menu in the upper right corner. I found my wifi adapter and selected my network ssid from the list. Next I entered my password and it connected no problem. The problem came when the wifi connection refused to get an ip address from my router. This sent me to the forums of RuneAudio to find a solution. With my limited knowledge I was able to find a quick and dirty workaround. That work around was to assign a static ip to the RaspberryPI's wifi adapter. Just make sure the ip you are setting isn't being used elsewhere on your network. With that I was no longer beholden to the Ethernet cable. Huzzah!

At this point the RaspberryPi is good to go running RuneAudio! The only problem is there is nothing on it for it to play :( . So now it is time to get your college radio stations set up. To do that you need to go to your college radio stations website and hunt down their .m3u files that you download to stream their stations. Here is where we take a bit of a side step to get RuneAudio to do what we want. Unfortunately RuneAudio does not support .m3u files. Fortunately there is a really easy work around. To work around this we will open the .m3u file with a text editor. I'm on windows so I am using notepad but really any text editor will do. Once it is open you will see the streaming address that will need to be input into RuneAudio to be able to stream them.(I am attaching a text document with a few college radio stations I enjoy.) Armed with the secrets of the m3u file entered the information into the appropriate areas under the MyWebradios section of the Library and you are good to go!

Now that the software is set up lets get back into the meat space and poke some stuff with a stick!