Music Player Daemon on Raspberry Pi
This is not yet another “how to configure MPD on the Raspberry Pi” article, because there are a lot of excellent MPD HOWTOs already available: http://hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/raspberry-pi-setup-as-mpd-sever/ http://www.t3node.com/blog/streaming-audio-with-mpd-and-icecast2-on-raspberry-pi/ http://lesbonscomptes.com/pages/raspmpd.html However, I experienced a bottleneck with the configuration described by those articles. The load was slightly over 1 but it was high enough to cause some stuttering every 30 seconds. The first optimization is to avoid using a separate streaming solution like icecast MPD has its own, built-in streaming plugin which can be configured like this: ...