Raspberry Pi as an Audio Router for a Record Player

​The problem: I have an Audio Technica AT-LP60-USB that only has an output of a USB or RCA cables. I have studio monitors (JBL 305P MkII) that needs the sound amplified.

The solution: Using Raspberry Pi as a router.

This article was helpful in having a command that routes the audio, however I needed the command to always run and check if the record player was plugged in. Lets get started setting up our pi.

1. Setup your Raspberry pi
2. ​Plug your record player into the pi
3. Plug your audio interface into the pi

​Go into the terminal window on the raspberry pi and type

Audio Interface (Scarlett 2i2)

Take note of your record player name and your audio interface name.

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Record Player (Audio-Technica AT-LP60-USB)

Create a script file to keep the audio streaming by running

Paste the following into the recordplayer.sh file being sure to replace after -C and -P with the values saved from earlier.

Save the script by control X, y and hitting enter.

Run this command to create a service that will run this script on boot

Paste the following

Save by control X, y and hitting enter.

Finally Run these commands to start the service

Check that the service is running​

Now your record player should stream audio to your speakers! Let me know if you have any problems in the comments and I'll try to update this post as necessary.