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EnglishWhy is the Pi MusicBox category on Mopidy Discourse read-only?
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The Pi MusicBox category on Mopidy Discourse is read-only because Pi MusicBox itself has been unmaintained since 2022. Pi MusicBox was a Raspberry Pi distribution built on top of Mopidy, and once its maintainer stopped updating it, the forum category was locked to preserve the existing discussions as an archive. You can still read the roughly 943 topics there, but you cannot create new posts or replies in that category.
What Pi MusicBox was
Pi MusicBox was a ready-made Raspberry Pi image that bundled Mopidy with a set of extensions and configuration, so you could turn a Pi into a music server without assembling the stack yourself. It lived in the Mopidy ecosystem but was its own project with its own release cycle.
Why the category was locked
The category description states the project "has been unmaintained since 2022." When a project stops receiving updates, its support forum tends to fill with questions that no one can answer authoritatively, and stale advice can mislead new users. Marking the category read-only:
- Freezes the existing threads as a historical record.
- Prevents new questions from being posted where no maintainer is watching.
- Pushes current discussion into categories that are still active.
What you can still do there
You can browse and search the archived threads. That is useful if you are troubleshooting an existing Pi MusicBox install or reading about how a particular extension was configured. Treat the content as historical: version numbers, package names, and workarounds may no longer apply to current Mopidy releases.
Where to ask instead
New questions belong in the active categories on Mopidy Discourse:
| Category | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Help and support | Asking for help with Mopidy and Mopidy extensions |
| Show and tell | Sharing projects related to Mopidy |
| Ideas | Suggestions for Mopidy, extensions, and related projects |
| Development | Discussions about developing Mopidy and extensions |
| Misc | General topics; the former primary category |
Note that the Development category is for development discussion — usage questions should go to Help and support.
Practical takeaway
If you are running Pi MusicBox today, expect no upstream fixes and rely on the archived threads only as background. If you are starting fresh, build on current Mopidy and its extensions rather than the discontinued Pi MusicBox image, and post any problems in Help and support.