MPD Info

How to install MPD

sudo apt-get install mpd

Recommended changes to the mpd.conf file in /etc directory

Comment out the state_file to disable the resuming of last state when mpd starts up
#state_file "/var/lib/mpd/state"

Set the bind_to_address to be any, to enable you to connect external mpd clients

bind_to_address "any"

Set the Audio Output

audio_output {  
	type		"alsa"  
	name		"My ALSA Device"  
	device		"hw:0,0"	# optional  
	format		"44100:16:2"	# optional  
	#mixer_device	"default"	# optional  
	#mixer_control	"PCM"		# optional  
	#mixer_index	"0"		# optional  
}

If you are using a USB DAC that does not support hardware volume control you can try enabling software volume control

mixer_type "software"

If you are feeling adventurous you can try compiling the latest version of mpd:

Install MPD and MPC (Client)
sudo apt-get install mpd mpc

Install the pre-requirements

sudo apt-get install aptitude wget binutils gcc make subversion autoconf automake autotools-dev libtool pkg-config build-essential libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev gcc libglib2.0-dev

sudo apt-get install libfaad2 libfaad-dev libflac8 libflac-dev libogg0 libogg-dev libvorbis0a libvorbis-dev libid3tag0 libid3tag0-dev libmad0 libmad0-dev libcue-dev libcue1 libasound2 libasound-dev libasound2-dev libao-dev libwavpack-dev libwavpack1 libsamplerate0 libsamplerate-dev libmikmod2-dev libmikmod2 libmikmod-dev libshout-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libaudiofile-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libmms-dev libmms0 libtwolame-dev libtwolame0 libmp3lame-dev git-core libboost1.46-all  

sudo su
cd /home/pi

You can either clone the mpd source from the git repository

git clone git://git.musicpd.org/master/mpd.git

Or you can download an earlier version from http://www.musicpd.org/download/mpd/

Or you can get the latest version from http://www.musicpd.org/download/mpd/stable/

Like this

wget http://www.musicpd.org/download/mpd/stable/mpd-0.19.1.tar.gz

And then extract the files

tar -zxvf <name>.tar.gz

Then

cd mpd-0.19.1

./autogen.sh

Configure some options

./configure --disable-bzip2 --disable-iso9660 --disable-zzip --enable-id3 --disable-sqlite --enable-ffmpeg --enable-alsa --disable-wave-encoder --enable-pipe-output --enable-httpd-output --disable-recorder-output --disable-sndfile --enable-oss --enable-shout --disable-pulse --disable-ao --enable-mad --disable-inotify --disable-ipv6 --enable-curl --enable-mms --enable-wavpack --disable-lame-encoder --disable-twolame-encoder --enable-vorbis --enable-lsr --enable-mikmod --with-zeroconf=auto

make
make install
sudo su
/etc/init.d/mpd stop
echo DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/mpd >>/etc/default/mpd
/etc/init.d/mpd start