I have recently made a clean install of Ubuntu 14.10 and once again I am left with trouble with MPD. I think I had managed to fix it last time, but I am not sure how.
My issue is to be able to use an external bluetooth speaker with MPD. Even better, I would like to be able to use both the plugged and the bluetooth speaker at the same time.
Unfortunately, MPD does not show under the applications that are producing audio under Gnome audio settings, and hence it ignores my directive to use the bluetooth speaker. I think this is because MPD is using Alsa instead of Pulseaudio.
Now, in my mpd.conf I have the lines
audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "MPD"
# server "localhost"
}
I have also tried to decomment the server line, but in this case, MPD does not even start.
To clarify, MPD is running under the user mpd
, which is under the groups pulse
and pulse-access
, but this does not seem to be enough.
Now, I believe I can run MPD under my own user, and this could fix some of the issues, but I'd rather not, as other users of this PC may want to listen to music as well.
What is the right way to make MPD use Pulseaudio (or do whatever is necessary to connect it to other speakers than the default?)