Talk:MPD

MPD and Pipewire
Using MPD as a system app seems to be problematic with pipewire as a user service (on openrc - I don't have a systemd gentoo system setup). I believe this is a result of the design of pipewire which manages containerisation more clearly than pulseaudio. Changing over to pipewire will break a working mpd/pulseaudio setup, and also changing the settings to native pipewire doesn't work. Changing mpd to a user level service rather than a system level service resolves the situation with pulseaudio or pipewire in the audio settings. I propose to rewrite the MPD page to make this clearer.
 * Perhaps it would be better to have the preferred option as user level rather than system level? This is the approach used by Arch in their documentation.
 * Also, I haven't tried to set up pipewire as a system level service - this might be the best approach for those needing a system level mpd service.

Please let me know your opinions!