[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Latest version of MPD

[Nick Earle]

Hi Florian,

Many thanks for your reply.

I'm working my way through the link you sent me to use a backport for MPD, so fingers crossed that will solve my problems.

Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Schlichting [mailto:fsfs at debian.org] 
Sent: 23 April 2014 21:40
To: Nick Earle
Cc: pkg-mpd-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Latest version of MPD

Hi Nick,

I'm sorry you haven't received an answer yet - I overlooked your email and apparently no-one else felt the need to reply either.

> I've been using MPD on a Raspberry Pi for a couple of years and it's been fantastic.
> 
> However, more recently I'm finding the the MPD daemon is falling over more and more often. It starts playing music and then I loose connection from my client.
> 
> I was hoping that the latest version, 18.x would resolve these problems but although its available on the GIT hub it will not install using apt-get install mpd.

As far as I'm aware, the Raspberry Pi uses a Debian derivative called Raspbian, among other things because the Debian ARM port is not properly optimized for the Pi's hardware. That is, they take over and modify the Debian versions of software like MPD, but we (as Debian) have no control over when and how they do that.

My impression is they're working with the current Debian stable release called "wheezy", which contains mpd version 0.16.7-2 - old indeed, but being a stable release this will not change. Your best option probably is to take the current mpd source package from unstable (0.18.10-2) and compile a package on your Raspbian system.
http://raspbian.org/RaspbianDocumentation may have hints on what needs to be done to accomplish that; and you may have to drop some systemd stuff that depends on functionality not yet available in wheezy.

HTH,
Florian