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> music player daemon

I use it for like 15 years now. No other player is that versatile.

Client/Server, very stable, small resource footprint.

Recently I used mpd to play audiobooks and live radio streams on my headless server. MPD uses icecast to make the stream available in my local network so I can use chromecast and/or google assistants to listen to the streams. Its more or less running transparent in the background and iam very glad I found this solution.



I too used MPD in various scenarios for maybe a decade, but sometimes last year it stopped working with pulseaudio, and no amount of tinkering seemed to fix it (other apps worked with PA like a breeze, but not MPD). So I replaced it with Qmmp, and am slowly forgetting about it.


> MPD uses icecast to make the stream available in my local network

What is the latency like? I tried something like this but there was so much lag between a remote control input and player state changes that it was unbearable.


Within 30 seconds, more like 15. No problem.




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