fatex usb drive with raspberry pi plex media server

Also because mpd does nothing that is not related to producing sound. Low latency is also because the data is passed directly to the DAC and not via streaming. This is expected because the code is small and written in C/C++. mpd passes the music data locally from the hard disk directly to the dac. It has the best code available to buffer music data and send it to the dac. Here are few pros and cons of LMS and mpdġ.

You can use any web browser to connect to LMS on port 9000. It runs a service written in perl and provides http interface on port 9000. I use cantata on my macbook and linux latop. You are free to chose any client that gives a good graphical interface. It can also issue commands like stop, play, pause, etc. It is a client server model where any client can connect to mpd on port 6600 and query mpd for details like what song is playing, what is the position of playback, the song title, song author, etc. mpd will scan your entire music directory in few seconds and build its tag database with tags that are already present in your music files (title, author, album, year, etc). Once you have done that you need to edit /etc/mpd.conf to point to your music folder on your external hard disk.

to install you just need to run the command apt-get install mpd. I prefer MPD because I find it is the one that is the most efficient and doesn't take any system resource. Click to expand.I have used mpd extensively and recently also used Logitech media server.

Fatex usb drive with raspberry pi plex media server