Cannot wait to get home to try this. Perhaps I am a complete idiot, but I have off and on tried to get MPD reliable enough to do something like this and I can

Cannot wait to get home to try this. Perhaps I am a complete idiot, but I have off and on tried to get MPD reliable enough to do something like this and I can never make it happen consistently; the killer tends to be the separation between the interface/client and the audio stream. It's just so cumbersome and there doesn't seem to be a good reliable way to unify them easily and consistently.