C[omp]ute

From: andrew cooke <andrew@...>

Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 17:36:36 -0400

I have a Raspberry Pi that I want to take music from a HDD and send it
to a USB DAC.  I want to be able to control this remotely from my
phone.  It should look good and "just work".

I have tried a pile of things in the last week.  The best (by far) has
been volumio.  After flashing the image and booting you may need to
enable ssh (via http://address.of.volumio/dev) and then you can modify
fstab and mount the music at /mnt/INTERNAL

You can also modify
/volumio/app/plugins/music_service/mpd/mpd.conf.tmpl to enable
replaygain (and then save settigns from the gui to regenerate
/etc/mpd.conf).


Various other things learnt:

 - mopidy is an MPD rewrite in Python (ish).  Unfortunately it's not
   super-well supported and the clients are buggy (even when you
   finally understand what it is and that you need to install
   mopidy-local).  The MPD plugin doesn't make much sense.

 - MPD clients for android are not great.  MpDroid seems to be no
   longer maintained and MALP is flakey.

 - I tried moode a while back and that was OK (but volumio seems more
   responsive and easier to use).

Andrew