I've made it through the process of setting up MPD on my Ubuntu machine to play to the ALSA Loopback device. From there I am streaming the audio, etc.
I installed an MPD Client (Gnome MPC) on the server and everything works great. Now I would like to use (another) cleint on my Android device (a tablet) to control playback on the server. I assume that is how it works, e.g. that the Android client is not streaming the music from the server to the Android and playing it there... So I installed first mpc and then MPDroid on my Android tablet and tried to get them to work as cleints. In both cases, the client cannot connect to the MPD instance on the server.
I have looked around the web for help and found various suggestions on edits to the mpd.conf file. These included setting bind_to_address to "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" and port to "6060", which seems to be the default port. I also opened port 6060 in my iptables to incoming tcp. On the clients I set up the MPD server IP (use the actual IP address of it, which is static) and port = 6060 but this has not resulted in connection.
I know that there are some users of MPD with various clients on this forum. Please help me figure this out or point me to resources that might help me. Thanks!
I installed an MPD Client (Gnome MPC) on the server and everything works great. Now I would like to use (another) cleint on my Android device (a tablet) to control playback on the server. I assume that is how it works, e.g. that the Android client is not streaming the music from the server to the Android and playing it there... So I installed first mpc and then MPDroid on my Android tablet and tried to get them to work as cleints. In both cases, the client cannot connect to the MPD instance on the server.
I have looked around the web for help and found various suggestions on edits to the mpd.conf file. These included setting bind_to_address to "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" and port to "6060", which seems to be the default port. I also opened port 6060 in my iptables to incoming tcp. On the clients I set up the MPD server IP (use the actual IP address of it, which is static) and port = 6060 but this has not resulted in connection.
I know that there are some users of MPD with various clients on this forum. Please help me figure this out or point me to resources that might help me. Thanks!
Whoops, that was it. I'm a bit embarrassed... but thanks to a bad cold I was convinced I should be using port 6060. Must read more carefully... Now we are up and running!
Switched to the Droid MPD Client. Nice! It's definitely worth plunking down $1.38...
Switched to the Droid MPD Client. Nice! It's definitely worth plunking down $1.38...
Such setting tells MPD to listen on localhost/127.0.0.1 only. I.e. it will accept only local connection from clients running on the machine. You need the exact opposite - listening on external IP address. Best is to keep the default value (listen to any interface).
MPD default port is 6600 Ubuntu Manpage: mpd.conf - Music Player Daemon configuration file
The easiest way of testing TCP servers is to use telnet
telnet IP_ADDRESS PORT
You will see immediately if there is a service listening.
Just for posterity sake I thought I would post what I am using for settings in ALSA and MPD. In my setup, I want the player to send output to an ALSA loopback (installed with the snd-aloop module) so that I can route it to, and then through, another application.
A list of available ALSA devices looks like this (via aplay -l):
In MPD I have the following audio-related configuration settings:
Finally, I have an .asoundrc file in my home directory (used by ALSA) containing the following:
Before I set up the .asoundrc file that specifies the defaults I could not get volume control working in MPD (it would always be at 100%). I may have also been specifying MPD to use the ALSA device hw:0,0 (this is the loopback in my case) at the time. I found a suggestion on the web to instead tell MPD to use the "default" device, and then to specify that along with the default control in the .asoundrc file as I have shown above. That worked like a charm.
A list of available ALSA devices looks like this (via aplay -l):
In MPD I have the following audio-related configuration settings:
Finally, I have an .asoundrc file in my home directory (used by ALSA) containing the following:
Before I set up the .asoundrc file that specifies the defaults I could not get volume control working in MPD (it would always be at 100%). I may have also been specifying MPD to use the ALSA device hw:0,0 (this is the loopback in my case) at the time. I found a suggestion on the web to instead tell MPD to use the "default" device, and then to specify that along with the default control in the .asoundrc file as I have shown above. That worked like a charm.
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