Comment 12 for bug 192735

i confirm that:
adding "load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1" to
/etc/pulse/default.pa

and having in /etc/mpd.conf:
audio_output {
 # use the pulse output
    type "pulse"
 # name
    name "My Pulse Device"
 }

this works.
like the above poster says mpd has to be started after pulseaudio, which is not the current set up. however, if i keep double clicking on files for mpd to play (or wait a minute) it does eventually reconnect to pulse. (i cant work out what the process is). then everything works perfectly, the same as if pulse had started first.

still needs some other fix, as we dont want to have to wait a while.