Detailed questions RE the "Installation from source wiki"

[seamusdemora]

I'm planning to build bluez-alsa on a RPi 02W running the "Lite" version of RPi OS 'bookworm'. (REF #695)

I'm in Step 3 of the install wiki, and have several questions:

1. Does mpg123 support also require --enable-mp3lame?
2. Will I need the --enable-cli to use bluealsa-cli tool (I have no GUI) ??
3. I want to use some of the systemd options. I'll add --enable-systemd option, but what about others? I do not want my music to stop playing when I log out (as it does with pipewire). Can you make recommendations?

[borine]

1. already answered in Building for a very lightweight platform? #695 (reply in thread) - the application (any application) just sends audio to an ALSA PCM device (any ALSA PCM device), it does not know or care what methods, codecs, magic tricks or whatever that the device uses to get that audio to the speaker.
2. already answered in Building for a very lightweight platform? #695 (reply in thread) - for a simple use case like this one, bluealsa "just works"
3. My personal advice is to keep it simple - run the bluealsa daemon as root using systemd, which happens by default with "--enable-systemd".

[EDIT] just a thought - you know that you must arrange for mpg123 to keep running when you log out? That is not something that bluealsa (nor pipewire) can do for you.

[seamusdemora]

@borine

[EDIT] just a thought - you know that you must arrange for mpg123 to keep running when you log out? That is not something that bluealsa (nor pipewire) can do for you.

I think I've got at least that much covered. :)

nohup mpg123 --loop -1 rainstorm.mp3 &

Thank you so much for your help with this.