Raspberry pi & mpd

This turtoorial describes how to set up a Music Player Daemon (MPD) on the Raspberry Pi. I am using the B+ version, but the turtorial also works with older versions of the raspberry pi.

Installing operation system
In my case the raspberry is also used as an xbmc media center. Since in my opinion XBMC is not the yellow of the egg for playing music. I decided to install MPD as a music player.

I just followed the default installation instruction of Raspbmc. You can also use Openelec, XBIAN or if you do not want xbmc just a raspbian.

MPD installation
logging in to the raspberry via ssh or console. And get root right using: sudo -i Then bring the raspberry up to date using apt-get: apt-get update apt-get upgrade After we can start installing mpd (I installed mpc as well to test/debug): apt-get install mpd mpc

sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835