MPD and pulse output fails to start

Hi all,

I have a working MPD addon outputing to a local alsa usb sound card.

I'm trying to also output MPD to a pulseaudio sink and I can't get MPD to start as it always quits spitting out :

exception: Failed to configure output in line 289
exception: nested: No such audio output plugin: pulse

The config is the following:

music_directory        "/storage/music"
playlist_directory "/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.mpd/playlists"
db_file "/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file            "/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.mpd/log/mpd.log"
pid_file "/var/run/mpd.pid"
state_file "/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.mpd/state"
audio_output {
    type        "alsa"
    name        "AureonDualUSB"
    device        "hw:1,0"    # optional
    mixer_type      "software"    # optional
}
audio_output {
    type        "pulse"
    name        "My Pulse Output"
}

My feeling is the MPD addon in libreelec does not support pulse audio, is that correct ?

If so, any ways to have MPD support pulseaudio ?

If not correct: any ideas where this error is coming from ?

I tried with:

- localhost default pulse sink (as in the config above),

- with explicitly naming the sink,

which all show up ok from pulseaudio itself:

# pactl list short sinks
1    alsa_output.platform-aml_m8_snd.47.analog-stereo    module-alsa-card.c    s16le 2ch 44100Hz    SUSPENDED
2    alsa_output.usb-0ccd_0077-00.analog-stereo    module-alsa-card.c    s16le 2ch 44100Hz    SUSPENDED
3    tunnel.dsk.local.alsa_output.pci-0000_12_00.3.analog-stereo    module-tunnel.c    s16le 2ch 44100Hz    SUSPENDED
4    tunnel.dsk.local.alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo    module-tunnel.c    s16le 2ch 44100Hz    SUSPENDED

Thanks for any ideas/pointers !!!

Just found out that indeed the MPD addon does not support pulseaudio:

# mpd --version
[...]

Output plugins:
 null fifo alsa httpd

[...]

Any hints how I can get MPD to a version that support pulseaudio in Libreelec ?