Music Player Daemon Stream Troubleshooting
From Music Player Daemon Community Wiki
There are few reasons that a stream won't load, some are harder than others to troubleshoot than others. Here are a few reasons that a stream may not work.
- Parse the file. Playlist files (m3u and pls) have to be parsed before using for a stream URL. If using mpc, you would for example use m3u_handler.sh in the doc/ directory to parse the m3u playlist. Some clients handle this automatically, but it is the job of the person or the client, not MPD's.
- Network conditions. This is a hard (if not impossible) one to troubleshoot. Best way to troubleshoot this is to try the stream in another music player.
- Unsupported format. There are quite a few music formats out there that may not be supported through streaming, for example aac is not yet supported for incoming streaming.
