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--- projects:pimpd [2021/08/18 13:56] – [Listening to the music] hibby
+++ projects:pimpd [2021/08/24 21:04] – hibby
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 ===== Listening to the music =====
-==== HTTP Stream ====
+==== Speakers ====
-The MPD audio plays directly out to the social room speakers. It also broadcasts on the space network via icecast. To listen in, use an icecast player (VLC works well) and play the following network address:
+Currently, the playback-pi is configured to play whatever mpd is pushing to snapcast.
+This is connected to the loudspeakers at the media workstation, on the audio switch input 1.
-    http://172.23.152.9:8000/Stream.m3u (Note the uppercase S)
 ==== Snapclient ====
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 To shut it up,
 <code># systemctl stop snapclient</code>
+==== HTTP Stream ====
+It also broadcasts on the space network via HTTP. To listen in, use an icecast player (VLC works well) and play the following network address:
+    http://172.23.152.9:8000/Stream.m3u (Note the uppercase S)
+This will lag the snapcast stream by some undefined quantity of time.
 ===== Blame =====
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 Graphical frontend is [[https://github.com/jcorporation/myMPD|myMPD]] started at boot using the default systemd unit it ships with. It is configured to not provide an ssl service due to certificates being hard.
+Snapcast is provided by [[https://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/snapserver|snapserver]] from Debian, and requires the following config in ''/etc/mpd.conf'':
+<code>
+audio_output {
+        type            "fifo"
+        name            "my pipe"
+        path            "/tmp/snapfifo"
+        format          "44100:16:2"
+        mixer_type      "software"
+}
+</code>
 ====== Future Ideas ======
 https://github.com/badaix/snapcast
-{{tag>project active music hibby}}
+{{tag>project active music hibby alford}}