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philipW

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Registered: 2017-03-21

Posts: 145

[SOLVED]mpd stream

Hello,
I have a setup at home which consists of a file server and a server where i run mpd on.
I use a samba share to mount my music directory on my mpd server and that works fine.
I wish to listen to my music when i am not home so i forwarded port 6600 and i can connect to it using ncmpcpp.
But of course i cant hear anything when playing songs because mpd outputs to alsa so i setup 3 https streams one for mp3, one for flac and one for wav on port 8000.
I wanna do the same thing as jasonwryan discribed in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164434 but the only difference is i wanna also be able to listnen to my music outside my home network(if thats even possible)
When i do

mpc add http://MYWANIP:8000

i get

mpd error: Connection refused

This is my mpd.conf:

philip@Hathor:~$ cat /etc/mpd.conf

# Files and directories #######################################################
#
music_directory		"/var/lib/mpd/music"
#
playlist_directory		"/var/lib/mpd/playlists"
#
db_file			"/var/lib/mpd/tag_cache"
#
log_file			"/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"
#
pid_file			"/run/mpd/pid"
#
state_file			"/var/lib/mpd/state"
#
sticker_file                   "/var/lib/mpd/sticker.sql"
#
###############################################################################


# General music daemon options ################################################
#
user				"mpd"
#
#group                          "nogroup"
#
bind_to_address		"localhost"
#
#bind_to_address		"/run/mpd/socket"
#
#port				"6600"
#
#log_level			"default"
#
#gapless_mp3_playback			"yes"
#
#restore_paused "no"
#
#save_absolute_paths_in_playlists	"no"
#
#metadata_to_use	"artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"
#
#auto_update    "yes"
#
#auto_update_depth "3"
#
###############################################################################


# Symbolic link behavior ######################################################
#
#follow_outside_symlinks	"yes"
#
#follow_inside_symlinks		"yes"
#
###############################################################################


# Zeroconf / Avahi Service Discovery ##########################################
#
#zeroconf_enabled		"yes"
#
#zeroconf_name			"Music Player"
#
###############################################################################


# Permissions #################################################################
#
#password                        "password@read,add,control,admin"
#
#default_permissions             "read,add,control,admin"
#
###############################################################################


# Database #######################################################################
#

#database {
#       plugin "proxy"
#       host "other.mpd.host"
#       port "6600"
#}

# Input #######################################################################
#

input {
        plugin "curl"
#       proxy "proxy.isp.com:8080"
#       proxy_user "user"
#       proxy_password "password"
}

#
###############################################################################

# Audio Output ################################################################
#
#
audio_output {
	type		"alsa"
	name		"My ALSA Device"
#	device		"hw:0,0"	# optional
#	mixer_type      "hardware"      # optional
#	mixer_device	"default"	# optional
#	mixer_control	"PCM"		# optional
#	mixer_index	"0"		# optional
}

#audio_output {
#	type		"shout"
#	encoder		"vorbis"		# optional
#	name		"My Shout Stream"
#	host		"localhost"
#	port		"8000"
#	mount		"/mpd.ogg"
#	password	"hackme"
#	quality		"5.0"
#	bitrate		"128"
#	format		"44100:16:1"
#	protocol	"icecast2"		# optional
#	user		"source"		# optional
#	description	"My Stream Description"	# optional
#	url             "http://example.com"    # optional
#	genre		"jazz"			# optional
#	public		"no"			# optional
#	timeout		"2"			# optional
#	mixer_type      "software"              # optional
#}

audio_output {
	type		"httpd"
	name		"My HTTP Stream"
	encoder		"lame"                  # optional, vorbis or lame
	port		"8000"
	bind_to_address "0.0.0.0"               # optional, IPv4 or IPv6
#	quality		"5.0"			# do not define if bitrate is defined
	bitrate		"320"			# do not define if quality is defined
	format		"44100:16:1"
	max_clients     "0"                     # optional 0=no limit
}

audio_output {
	type 		"httpd"
	name 		"FLAC Stream"
	encoder 	"flac"
	port 		"8800"
	format 		"44100:16:2"
}

audio_output {
	type 		"httpd"
	name 		"pcm wav Stream"
	encoder 	"wave"
	port 		"8000"
}

# An example of a pulseaudio output (streaming to a remote pulseaudio server)
# Please see README.Debian if you want mpd to play through the pulseaudio
# daemon started as part of your graphical desktop session!

#audio_output {
#	type		"pulse"
#	name		"My Pulse Output"
#	server		"remote_server"		# optional
#	sink		"remote_server_sink"	# optional
#}

###############################################################################


# Normalization automatic volume adjustments ##################################
#
#replaygain			"album"
#
#replaygain_preamp		"0"
#
#replaygain_missing_preamp	"0"
#
#replaygain_limit		"yes"
#
#volume_normalization		"no"
#
###############################################################################


# Character Encoding ##########################################################
#
filesystem_charset		"UTF-8"
#
id3v1_encoding			"UTF-8"
#
###############################################################################


# SIDPlay decoder #############################################################
#
# songlength_database:
#  Location of your songlengths file, as distributed with the HVSC.
#  The sidplay plugin checks this for matching MD5 fingerprints.
#  See http://www.c64.org/HVSC/DOCUMENTS/Songlengths.faq
#
# default_songlength:
#  This is the default playing time in seconds for songs not in the
#  songlength database, or in case you're not using a database.
#  A value of 0 means play indefinitely.
#
# filter:
#  Turns the SID filter emulation on or off.
#
#decoder {
#       plugin                  "sidplay"
#       songlength_database     "/media/C64Music/DOCUMENTS/Songlengths.txt"
#       default_songlength      "120"
#       filter "true"
#}
#
###############################################################################

How do i make this work(if it is possible)?
At the moment i cant test if it works when im connected to my home network but i will test it as soon i get home.
I just verified the stream works with vlc but it would be nice if it works with mpc because then i just need to connect with mpc and then controll it with ncmpcpp instead of having vlc AND ncmpcpp open

Last edited by philipW (2017-12-20 09:59:01)

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Re: [SOLVED]mpd stream

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philipW

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Registered: 2017-03-21

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Re: [SOLVED]mpd stream

I solved my issue.
When i did

mpc add http://MYWANIP:8000

it didn't work because i didn't have mpd running locally so mpc couldn't play the stream.
I tough mpc could play the stream on its own but it just adds the stream from my server to the playlist of my local mpd.
So i use ncmpcp that's connected to the mpd running on my server to control my music. mpd outputs 2 http streams: a flac stream for when i'm home and a mp3 stream for when i'm not at home. and the mpd on my laptop plays the output of the stream.
I use mupeace on my phone witch can both control the stream and play the output.