Music Player Daemon

Hm, this relocation error looks like a toolchain problem. I have no idea how to fix this, sorry.

If that package were missing, then its presence would not have been detected at configure time. But we don't know, because the original post didn't contain any information. (It didn't even properly name the version number - there's no version "21.3".)

This is a problem with your libmpcdec install. But if you don't want that codec, you can disable it with option

skidoo wrote: ↑

December 7th, 2018, 4:44 pm

There is no automatic mono to stereo conversion in MPD.

Yes there is.

MPD doesn't install a "mpd.conf" because it doesn't know what should be written in it - only you know, so it's up to you to write it. MPD also doesn't come with a sysvinit script (/etc/init.d/mpd) because such a thing is distribution specific and sysvinit is a horrible design anyway. MPD comes with ...

So this has nothing to do with Shout and outputs. You want to know how to operate the "ALSA" input plugin.
To be able to help you, you should obey https://www.musicpd.org/help/
Really.

"be clear about what you expect MPD to do, and what is actually happening"

So what do you expect to happen when you try to output audio to a microphone?

Your MPD version is outdated and unsupported. See https://www.musicpd.org/help/

Your MPD version is outdated and unsupported. See https://www.musicpd.org/help/

I was trying to avoid the network/client issues till I was more experienced, hence trying to run MPD/GMPC on the same device. But that's more complicated if your device doesn't have any way to display a GUI. Your approach is so wrong and complicated, I don't know where to start. Why are you doing i...

Uh, what is "minimal Ubuntu"? This has nothing to do with Xubuntu or Lubuntu or Ubuntu (or GNOME). I don't think I can help you further. It looks like you're trying to build something which is way over your head. You don't know what any of these keywords mean. You don't know how Linux works. You're ...

GMPC is not a GNOME app. GMPC doesn't know or care if you have GNOME. It needs GTK, but not GNOME. If GNOME is what your question was about: yes, GMPC will run without GNOME.

So if another process (i.e. PulseAudio) is already using the Bluetooth device, then the second process gets "No such file or directory" instead of "Device busy"? Uh, not so user friendly.

Thanks for the feedback, this might help other people get started - but I think this is a pretty complicated and fragile solution. It would be better to have native Bluetooth support in MPD. Let's hope somebody drops some code to me.

I've never used Bluetooth audio stuff, but I thought they'd be accessed via the ALSA API, like any other sound output on Linux. Apparently, Bluetooth is special and require a different API, which is an unfortunate design choice. Those other programs you listed may have implemented that Bluetooth-spe...

Is your Bluetooth device visible as an ALSA device in "aplay -l" or "cat /proc/asound/cards"?

What you write doesn't appear to make any sense at all. Do you even know what GMPC is?

GMPC is a GUI client. How would you expect to use a GUI program without a GUI?

No thank you for not reporting the bug.