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or, just add the below to have two streams, one in MP3 and one in Ogg Vorbis.

replace the above block with below to only have one stream, in MP3.

If you need support for an MP3 stream, either However, this will create an Ogg Vorbis 6 stream that notably AppleвЂ™s built-in software (Safari, iTunes, вЂ¦) cannot handle - although VLC on macOS or iOS will handle it just fine. Name 'Your Stream Name Here' host 'localhost' port '8000' mount '/stream.ogg' password 'sourcepasswordforicecast' # quality '5.0'Д«itrate '128' format '44100:16:1' # protocol 'icecast2' # optionalДescription 'Freshest beats from a better era' # optional Type 'shout' # encoder 'vorbis' # optional # An example of a shout output (for streaming to Icecast):

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Full documentation for the settings can be found here at MPDвЂ™s output plugin documentation. mount defines the path at the end of the serverвЂ™s URL where the stream will be available and password is the source password that MPD uses to authenticate to Icecast. The defaults are fine, but you might want to at least set name, mount, and password. Instead, uncomment the вЂњexample of a shout output (for streaming to Icecast)вЂќ. Comment out the ALSA output, unless you also want MPD to play music of your Raspberry PiвЂ™s audio out connector. follow_outside_symlinks 'yes' follow_inside_symlinks 'yes' There are a lot of settings that can be left to their defaults, however for the symbolic links to work, uncomment and enable the settings in вЂњSymbolic link behaviorвЂќ 5. Fire up your favorite text editor, for example sudo nano /etc/mpd.conf. Now with ls -l you should see something like music -> '/mnt/music'. We will instead use symbolic links to bring the mounts into MPDвЂ™s default music library at /var/lib/mpd/music/ by cd /var/lib/mpd/music/ However, this feature does not exist yet although it is documented 4. This way, you can use local music, file servers and USB sticks at the same time. MPD has various storage plugins of which multiple instances can be вЂњmountedвЂќ into the music directory.

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Now, you might wonder why I explicitly mounted the share in the previous section when MPDвЂ™s documentation has a section on how to do this via MPD itself:

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MPD is easily installed on the Pi with sudo apt install mpd Sudo mount -t cifs /// /mnt/music -o user =,pass = Sudo apt install samba samba-common-bin smbclient cifs-utilsДЄnd then mounting the NAS share using sudo mkdir /mnt/music

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I followed the documentation from and installed SMB support using sudo apt update

Maybe you have your collection on a USB drive. Other option would be NFS or whatever else that lets you mount the collection on the Pi. In my case, I will use SMB to connect to my MP3s 3. Icecast that puts that audio stream available on HTTP and can be accessed using a browser, VLC or even iTunes.MPD that runs on the Pi and decodes the files to audio.Raspberry Pi that accesses my collection on NAS over SMB.Shoutcast, not sure what it really does with llamas or their bodyparts. What better use of a likewise abandoned Raspberry Pi than making it blast these beats from around the turn of the century to soothe oneвЂ™s nerves? To go back to those halcyon days of circa 2005, way before any global economic crises or pandemicsвЂ¦ when we only had more localized events like the dotcom bubble and the first SARS.ДЄnyway, today we would have services like DLNA/ UPnP and AirPlay to stream media at home but to really go back to the beginning of the new millenium IвЂ™m going to set up an internet radio station 2. In these uncertain times where I suddenly have a lot of time at home, I remembered that I have an assortement of MP3s 1 forgotten in a corner of my NAS from a time before Spotify and other streaming services.