diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -229,6 +229,12 @@ If you select Pulseaudio, the "card" setting in the config file has no effect.
 Instead all soundcards detected by Pulseaudio will be listed as speakers by
 forked-daapd.
 
+There is some one-time setup required to use Pulseaudio:
+ - Add the forked-daapd user (probably "daapd") to the "pulse-access" group.
+ - On non-desktop/headless systems, you will need to run Pulseaudio in system
+   mode. For this, you will probably want to install a SystemD .service file
+   (Google will help you), so Pulseaudio automatically starts at boot.
+
 
 ## MP3 network streaming (streaming to iOS)