WHY?
erm… why not?? Its nice to have multiple ways of playback on 1 already fantastic player… I am always switching between MPD, Airplay (shairport) and Squeezelite…
HOW…
Follow along, no compiling required…
Make a temp dir in /root/temp
cd /root
mkdir temp
cd temp
Download precompiled Squeezelite Binary from GoogleCode
wget http://squeezelite.googlecode.com/files/squeezelite-armv6hf
Download the Startup Script
wget http://www.gerrelt.nl/RaspberryPi/squeezelitehf.sh
Give proper perms and a new home to Squeezelite and Squeezelite Start Script
mv squeezelite-armv6hf /usr/bin
chmod u+x /usr/bin/squeezelite-armv6hf
mv squeezelitehf.sh /etc/init.d/squeezelite
chmod u+x /etc/init.d/squeezelite
Make Squeezelite start on Startup
cd /etc/init.d/
update-rc.d squeezelite defaults
Configuring Squeezelite Soundcard (leave it to default - we do not want to assign a specific interface, this is already done at the ALSA level in Volumio)
sudo nano /etc/init.d/squeezelite
Make sure any line beginning with SL_SOUNDCARD is commented out like this
#SL_SOUNDCARD="sysdefault:CARD=ALSA"
Start Squeezelite
/etc/init.d/squeezelite start
Cleanup (optional)
cd ~
rm -rf /root/temp
No Sound or playback through MPD?
Sometimes MPD has a little heart attack and cannot playback if you are using multiple players.
See: mpd-fix-failed-to-open-alsa-device-hw-0-0-device-busy-t670.html
Sit back, grab cup of tea and slurp away to your fav tunes :mrgreen: