About MPD
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing audio files (Ogg-Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Wave, and AIFF), streams (Ogg-Vorbis, MP3) and managing playlists. Gapless playback, buffered output, and crossfading support is also included. The design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a TCP/IP network. The goals are to be easy to install and use, to have minimal resource requirements (it has been reported to run fine on a Pentium 75), and to remain stable and flexible. Control is via client applications (such as the command line utility, mpc).
About the plugin
Supports basic configuration of most common options, including setting shared folders for the music and playlist directories (although if just used for streaming, MPD can function without these options configured). Multiple audio outputs are supported, but configuration options specific to plugins must be entered manually as 'extra options'. For example, configuring the device or mixer control for an ALSA output. However, left blank, or even without any outputs configured, MPD attempts to pick a sensible default (i.e. the first ALSA device on Linux), so the plugin should work fine out of the box for most typical setups.
Upgrading MPD to a later version than that installed by default with Debian Wheezy (0.16.7), e.g. version 0.17.6 from the wheezy-backports repository (Debian Jessie, OMV 3.0 already has a later version, of course), is recommended (most notably to support the restore_paused configuration option).
How to install
To install the plugin, first install the OMV Extras plugin, then you can install openmediavault-mpd from the Plugins section of the WebGUI.
Support
Please either report issues on GitHub (https://github.com/OpenMediaVa…openmediavault-mpd/issues) or use this thread for discussion/support/problems with the plugin.