discourse.mopidy.com

Mopidy Discourse is the community discussion forum for Mopidy, an extensible music server, and related projects. It runs on the Discourse forum platform and is organized into topic categories rather than being a download page or the official documentation site. If you want to ask for help, share a project, propose an idea, or follow development discussion, this is the place for that kind of conversation.

What the site is for

The forum's stated purpose is to "discuss the extensible music server and related projects." In practice that means community exchange: questions and answers, project showcases, feature ideas, and development talk. It is not where you download Mopidy itself, and it is not the reference documentation — those live elsewhere. Treat this as the human layer around the software.

How the content is organized

Topics are grouped into categories, each with its own focus and rough activity level:

Two things stand out from this structure. First, the Misc category is by far the largest, but it is explicitly a legacy bucket — the guidance is to post new topics in more specific categories. Second, Pi MusicBox is an archive: that distro has been unmaintained since 2022 and the category is read-only, so don't expect replies there.

How to use it well

• Post in the right category. Usage and troubleshooting questions go to Help and support, not Development. Development is reserved for work on Mopidy and its extensions.
• Check the archive before asking about Pi MusicBox. Since it is unmaintained and read-only, existing threads may be all you get.
• Use Show and tell and Ideas if you are presenting something you built or proposing something new, rather than seeking support.
• Expect a JavaScript-dependent experience. The site notes it is "best viewed with JavaScript enabled," so a plain-text or script-blocked browser may not render it properly.

What it is not

It is not the Mopidy download page, not the official documentation, and not a place to report bugs through a formal tracker. It is a Discourse-powered forum where the community talks. If your goal is to install or configure Mopidy, you will still need the project's own docs and release channels; the forum is where you go when you are stuck or want to share what you made.

Post in Help and support on Mopidy Discourse. That category is described as the place to "Ask for help with Mopidy and Mopidy extensions," and it is the largest active category on the forum with 306 topics. If your question is about using Mopidy or an extension — configuration, playback, a service that won't connect — that's the right home for it.

Choosing the right category

The forum splits topics by purpose, and the category descriptions make the boundaries fairly clear:

The key distinction to keep in mind: usage questions belong in Help and support, not Development. The Development category description says so explicitly — it's for work on Mopidy and extensions themselves, while "usage should be discussed in Help and support."

Before you post

• Search existing topics first. Help and support already holds 306 topics, so a common configuration or extension problem may already have an answer.
• Avoid Misc for new questions. It's described as the former primary category, and the forum asks that new topics be created in more specific categories. A help request posted there is less likely to reach the right readers.
• Don't post in Pi MusicBox (archive). That category is read-only, and the distro it covers has been unmaintained since 2022. It can still be useful to read, but you can't start a topic there.

Quick decision path

1. Is it a question about using Mopidy or an extension? → Help and support
2. Are you sharing something you built? → Show and tell
3. Are you proposing an idea for Mopidy or an extension? → Ideas
4. Are you working on the code of Mopidy or an extension? → Development
5. Is it about the forum itself? → Meta

If you're unsure between Help and support and Development, default to Help and support — the forum's own guidance points usage questions there.

Mopidy Discourse is the official discussion forum for Mopidy, an extensible music server, and for projects built around it. Its purpose is to give users, contributors, and extension developers one place to ask for help, share projects, propose ideas, and coordinate development. If you are running Mopidy, writing an extension, or maintaining a related project, this is where those conversations are meant to happen.

What the community is for

The forum exists to support the Mopidy ecosystem in a few concrete ways:

• Help and support — getting assistance with Mopidy itself and with Mopidy extensions.
• Show and tell — presenting projects related to Mopidy.
• Ideas — suggesting directions for Mopidy, its extensions, and projects built on top of it.
• Development — discussing work on Mopidy and extensions.
• Meta — questions about how the forum is organized and run.

In short, it is both a support channel and a place for the community to share what it is building.

Categories and where to post

The forum is divided into categories so that topics land in the right place. The table below summarizes them.

Two practical rules follow from this layout:

1. Usage questions belong in Help and support, not in Development. Development is reserved for work on the code and extensions themselves.
2. Avoid Misc for new topics. It used to be the main category, but the guidance is to create new topics in the more specific categories.

Why Pi MusicBox is read-only

Pi MusicBox was a Raspberry Pi distribution built on Mopidy. It has been unmaintained since 2022, so its category is kept as a read-only archive. You can still read the old threads, but you cannot start new topics there. If you need help with something Pi MusicBox-related today, the appropriate route is the general support categories rather than the archived one.

Forum rules and technical notes

The forum operates under its own Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy, which are linked from the site. These govern how members are expected to behave and how the service is run.

Technically, Mopidy Discourse is powered by Discourse, and the site notes that it is best viewed with JavaScript enabled. If the forum looks broken or incomplete in your browser, enabling JavaScript is the first thing to check.

How to use it well

• Pick the most specific category that matches your topic instead of defaulting to Misc.
• Keep usage questions in Help and support and development questions in Development.
• When showing a project, use Show and tell so others can find it.
• Check the Guidelines before posting if you are new, since they set expectations for the community.

Mopidy Discourse is the community forum for the extensible music server and related projects. It is organized into a handful of categories so that questions, project showcases, feature ideas, and development talk each have a home. If you need help with Mopidy or an extension, post in Help and support; if you want to show off something you built, use Show and tell. The categories below reflect what is currently listed on the forum.

Active categories

Help and support

This is the place to ask for help with Mopidy and Mopidy extensions. It is the busiest of the support-oriented categories, so it is the right destination for troubleshooting and usage questions.

Show and tell

Use this category to show off your projects related to Mopidy. It is aimed at finished or in-progress work you want to share with the community.

Ideas

Post ideas for Mopidy, extensions, and projects building upon Mopidy here. This is for suggestions and proposals rather than support requests.

Development

Discussions related to the development of Mopidy and extensions belong here. Note the forum's guidance: usage should be discussed in Help and support, not in Development.

Misc

Misc used to be the primary category. The forum now asks that new topics be created in more specific categories instead.

Archived category

Pi MusicBox (archive)

Pi MusicBox was a Raspberry Pi distro built on Mopidy. It has been unmaintained since 2022, and this category is read-only. Its 943 topics remain available to read, but you cannot post new ones there.

Where should you post?

• Need help using Mopidy or an extension → Help and support
• Want to share a project → Show and tell
• Have a suggestion for Mopidy or an extension → Ideas
• Working on Mopidy or extension code → Development
• Asking about the forum itself → Meta
• Reading old Pi MusicBox threads → Pi MusicBox (archive), read-only

The forum also links to its Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy, and notes that it is powered by Discourse and best viewed with JavaScript enabled.

The Pi MusicBox category on Mopidy Discourse is read-only because Pi MusicBox itself has been unmaintained since 2022. Pi MusicBox was a Raspberry Pi distribution built on top of Mopidy, and once its maintainer stopped updating it, the forum category was locked to preserve the existing discussions as an archive. You can still read the roughly 943 topics there, but you cannot create new posts or replies in that category.

What Pi MusicBox was

Pi MusicBox was a ready-made Raspberry Pi image that bundled Mopidy with a set of extensions and configuration, so you could turn a Pi into a music server without assembling the stack yourself. It lived in the Mopidy ecosystem but was its own project with its own release cycle.

Why the category was locked

The category description states the project "has been unmaintained since 2022." When a project stops receiving updates, its support forum tends to fill with questions that no one can answer authoritatively, and stale advice can mislead new users. Marking the category read-only:

• Freezes the existing threads as a historical record.
• Prevents new questions from being posted where no maintainer is watching.
• Pushes current discussion into categories that are still active.

What you can still do there

You can browse and search the archived threads. That is useful if you are troubleshooting an existing Pi MusicBox install or reading about how a particular extension was configured. Treat the content as historical: version numbers, package names, and workarounds may no longer apply to current Mopidy releases.

Where to ask instead

New questions belong in the active categories on Mopidy Discourse:

Note that the Development category is for development discussion — usage questions should go to Help and support.

Practical takeaway

If you are running Pi MusicBox today, expect no upstream fixes and rely on the archived threads only as background. If you are starting fresh, build on current Mopidy and its extensions rather than the discontinued Pi MusicBox image, and post any problems in Help and support.