music in several rooms?

[cdlenfert]

Are you referring to MPD or shairport-sync outputting to pipe for forked-daapd?

If MPD then
https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/plugins.html

I'm just not convinced that using a pipe or fifo is going to be reliable based on my past experience with pipes and such.

-Tim

Thanks for your response and sorry for my delay (subscription settings  ). I'm not exactly sure what do do with the MPD plugins. Do they have to be compiled? Should I be trying to use FIFO vs Pipe output. I know that forked-daapd works well with a named pipe created via mkfifo command. The pipe that shairport-sync outputs to (which resides in the forked-daapd library) really plays nearly perfectly in my experience. So I'd like to be able to set MPD on moode to output the a named pipe, but ideally be able to swtich back and forth between that and Alsa output without too much hassle. Alternatively I could use forked-daapd's config to set it to output to Alsa and my local usb sound card as well and just leave Moode's MPD output set to the pipe full time. ...but any point in the right direction of how??