Running MPD on raspberry I decided to build a lighter version of MPD rather than using the vanilla Debian build.
Build options
My setup is quite common, a NAS exposes my music library over the network and a raspberry runs MPD with a satellite setup.
My music library contains only vorbis, mp3 and flac files and I’m playing sound on the raspberry (HiFiBerry Digi+), hence alsa.
Then I only need a subset of decoder plugins and functionalities enabled in the official Debian package.
Here are the build options used (./debian/rules):
ENABLE_DOCUMENTATION=-Ddocumentation=enabled -Dmanpages=true -Dhtml_manual=false
# Client support
ENABLE_CLIENTS=-Dipv6=enabled \
-Dtcp=true \
-Dlocal_socket=true
ENABLE_NETFS=-Dnfs=enabled -Dneighbor=true -Dsmbclient=disabled
SLIM_OPTIONS=--auto-features=disabled ${ENABLE_DOCUMENTATION} \
${ENABLE_NETFS} \
${ENABLE_CLIENTS} -Dlibmpdclient=enabled \
-Dflac=enabled -Dopus=enabled -Dmad=enabled \
-Dlibsamplerate=enabled -Dsqlite=enabled -Dsyslog=enabled \
-Dlame=enabled \
-Dpcre=enabled \
-Did3tag=enabled \
-Dhttpd=true -Dpipe=true -Dpulse=enabled \
-Dexpat=enabled \
-Dshout=enabled \
-Dsoxr=enabled \
-Dcurl=enabled
Get the Debian source packages for the details (cf. below).
Result
The final binary package is not that much smaller but it links against much less libraries. The main gain lies then in the installation itself.
I got the numbers from a Debian/buster installation (amd64 arch., no desktop, server minimal).
Once running a regular install apt-get install --assume-no and another with
--no-install-recommends option.
| apt: w/ recommends | mpd | mpd-slim |
|---|---|---|
| nb. packages | 179 | 50 |
| download size [MB] | 66 | 15 |
| install size [MB] | 410 | 50 |
| apt: no recommends | mpd | mpd-slim |
|---|---|---|
| nb. packages | 143 | 50 |
| download size [MB] | 38 | 15 |
| install size [MB] | 135 | 50 |
Packages
Packages, binary and source, are available for Debian/Raspbian stable in my backports repo.
Please refer the dedicated page to setup your repositories.
Packages might be available directly in the repo itself:
Use apt install ./mpd-slim_….deb to install directly from file.
Happy listening!