Music Player Daemon on Raspberry Pi

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:06:00 +0200

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:

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:

Raspberry Pi

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:26:00 +0200

My Raspberry Pi finally arrived after 4 months:

The stable Debian distribution “Squeeze” does not contain support for all of the Raspberry Pi features. That means there is no way around the the latest Debian “Wheezy” image: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1435

But even with the latest image version there is still some configuration effort left…

WLAN Stick

For network connectivity I have chosen the Conrad WLAN Stick N150 Nano, which is based on the following chipset: USB: 0BDA:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter.
Unfortunately this chipset has some issues with the current drivers from both Debian Linux images as discussed in the forum thread Automatic setup for RTL8188CUS based wifi adapters. By executing the script install-rtl8188cus-latest.sh from the forum thread, the adapter started working immediately after the script was finished.
The general WLAN configuration is described in detail in the Debian Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Command_Line

Raspberrypi on cat /dev/snapshot

Music Player Daemon on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi

WLAN Stick