[docs] More Pulseaudio instructions in the README

This commit is contained in:
ejurgensen 2016-09-02 22:41:52 +02:00
parent 9b985ab622
commit 3df0b61292

View File

@ -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 Instead all soundcards detected by Pulseaudio will be listed as speakers by
forked-daapd. 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) ## MP3 network streaming (streaming to iOS)