Allows you to control MPD to use a different Pulse Audio sink that your default one for MPD. Useful if you want your music playing from a different output device than all other audio.
This watches for all changes to mpd and make sure that it gets routed to your selected Pulse Audio Sink.
This tool was created because I have found no way currently to set one application to use a different default sink from everything else and I was having to always adjust the output every time I started playing with MPD.
cargo build --release
It will build to target/release/mpd-pulse which can be copied anywhere you like.
Copy system/mpd-pulse.service to ~/.config/systemd/user/mpd-pulse.service and adjust the path to your mpd-pulse binary.
Install from the AUR and then start with systemd.
Config can be read from either ~/.config/mpd-pulse.conf or /etc/mpd-pulse.conf.
Both device_name and mpd_name are required.
See mpd-pulse.conf for an example.
Start the service.
systemctl --user start mpd-pulse.service
Enable the service to start automatically.
systemctl --user enable mpd-pulse.service