jasonmc/forked-daapd — Issue #73: Install/start without local sound card?
Author: ZZninepluralZalpha
Created: 2011-11-04 04:21:23+00:00
State: open

After a long struggle, I finally managed to compile and install forked-daapd on my FreeBSD 8.2 server to replace the decrepit mt-daapd/firefly. ([d--j's FreeBSD recipe](https://github.com/jasonmc/forked-daapd/issues/6#issuecomment-826578) was very helpful, garnished with fixes for several other issues.) Now forked-daapd starts up, realizes that its new home (a Dell PowerEdge) lacks any sort of audio system, and immediately exits, leaving this in the log:

[2011-11-03 15:51:03] laudio: Could not open sound device: No such file or directory
[2011-11-03 15:51:03] player: Local audio init failed
[2011-11-03 15:51:03] main: Player thread failed to start
[2011-11-03 15:51:03] main: File scanner deinit
etc.

Is there a way to start forked-daapd without the player thread so that the lack of a local sound output device is ignored?