"Melodyn" on Windows

As I successfully finished the Videoton Melodyn project, took into my head that I'll develop the software in it further.

Other than the radio itself, I have some shelved/planned projects what can good use of this software, I also need something to listen on my PC while I'm working.

In the last five years I worked exclusively for Linux projects professionally, but I still unable use Linux as development platform. The Linux desktop is not comfortable to me, so I'm using Windows.

The problem is coming from here.

I want to setup a development platform on Windows.

The mpd "on paper" is supported on Windows. Unfortunately the documentation, how to set it up is not existent.

So I downloaded, and was able to start mpd, on a trial-fail bases.

Download the latest mpd.exe from here: https://www.musicpd.org/download/win32/

Put it in the c:\mpd directory.

First it looking for a config file. I've no idea, what is the default location of the config file, so I put it next to the executable

mpd.conf:

audio_output {

  type "winmm"

  name "Speakers"

  device "Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)"

}

This works with the Windows speaker on my PC.

In addition to this the mpd give the following error:

decoder: Decoder plugin 'wildmidi' is unavailable: configuration file does not exist: /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg

So I downloaded the wildmidi library from here: https://github.com/Mindwerks/wildmidi/releases

Put it under the c:\mpd\winmidi folder. Added to the mpd.conf the following also:

decoder {

    plugin "wildmidi"

    config_file "wildmidi/wildmidi.cfg"

}

With this, if I start the mpd with the following command line:

mpd.exe c:\mpd\mpd.conf

It start without error. The web radio from Melodyn.py works with it.

As I want to play audio files with it in the future, I don't know yet, if it will need additional setup.