I had better luck running forked-daapd and DAAP Media Player on android. There are probably better clients, but I didn't look much as my phone's speakers aren't much fun.

Streaming generally worked ok, but sometimes when changing songs quickly I would have to reconnect to the stream.

I still run minidlna for videos and use mpd as a remote controlled player.

OK I've removed mediatomb and replaced it with minidlna, after reading this guide - it works fine with 2player.

You can enable/disable MPD outputs at runtime. So you can easily disable local playback from the tablet.

MPD Can playback only to a stream, older versions had some issues with this, current release is fine.

So far streaming from MPD to tablet has worked for me (with build-in httpd with mp3 encoding).

I came to tell you about minidlna. ;) 2player looks quite good though, especially when used just for music.

I use minidlna for video streaming mostly so the Android program I use is upnplay.

Ahh yes, I'd notice I could disable outputs - thanks. That would allow me to stream and not play on the computers speakers (well if streaming worked!)

I've already upgraded to the MPD version from Wheezy, but sadly the streaming (with built-in "httpd") fails for me. I see "buffering" on my android client, but nothing ever happens.

Not the end of the world, given that I got minidlna working, but it would definitely be nicer to have only a single deamon running rather than two.

I will try it again when I get home.. What MPD client did you use on the tablet?

I was using MPDroid.

This is for my own notes, mostly. I'm using MPDroid v0.7. I tried the prerelease of 1.0 with no change.

My MPD is version 0.16.7, which I backported from wheezy, and has the following configuration file:

audio_output {
        type            "httpd"
        host "192.168.0.10"
        name            "HTTP Stream"
        encoder         "vorbis"        
        port            "9000"
        quality         "2.0"
        format          "44100:16:2"
        max_clients "3"
}

Using that I can successfully play a stream using mplayer:

$ mplayer http://192.168.0.10:9000/

This convinces me that the streaming-side of the equation is correct. Toggling the "stream" option in mpdroid results in the display of the message "buffering", but no sound. (I checked the volume control was set "up"!)

Using tcpdump I can see that the tablet is receiving data:

~$ sudo tcpdump -i eth0 "port 9000"

So the conclusion is that MPDroid's streaming is broken, or I'm an idiot. (Tried using encoder=lame too, to no avail. No errors logged in mpd.log)

How about installing Debian on your tablet? Is it possible?

For me it worked out of the box, just tried.
I let GMPC autompd plugin start MPD + http output, disabled firewall.

mpd 0.16.5 (ubuntu version)

latest MPDroid (just grabbed from market) on my asus transformer (original)

conf:
# HTTP mp3audio output
audio_output {
type "httpd"
name "AutoMPD httpd-mp3 device"
encoder "lame"
port "8000"
bitrate "128"
format "44100:16:2"
}

buffering took 5 seconds.

How irritating! Your settings are almost identical to mine, but no luck here at all.

I'm struggling to see anything else to try for the moment, so I will just continue to use 2player for the moment.

Thanks for sharing your config entry though! [I could try adding/removing the password settings as a last stab I guess..]