If you kind of familiar with linux its really not hard and works kind of of the box. But it is really mighty and still simple. A very large number of (good) cl

If you kind of familiar with linux its really not hard and works kind of of the box. But it is really mighty and still simple. A very large number of (good) clients for every platform due to its simple protocol. I really like the client-server approach. Very recently I used an icecast [1] output (mpd can have multiple audio outputs you can switch or use parallel on demand) on my headless server to automatically cast the stream to the inbuild chromecast of my onkyo receiver to listen to audiobooks. Homeassistant uses its own MPD integration to check the state is changing (play/stop), when it changes to play it sends the shoutcast url to the chromecast. Also stuff like this on the terminal makes me happy: # mpc search artist moloko | grep -i doctor | shuf | mpc add 1: https://icecast.org/ https://icecast.org/