Music Player Daemon
Music
Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side
application for playing music. Music is played through the server's
audio device. The daemon stores information about all available
music, and this information can be easily searched and retrieved.
Player control, info retrieval, and playlist management can all be
managed remotely.
Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound
files while being controlled by its network protocol.
MPD simply runs in the background playing music from its
playlist. Client programs communicate with MPD to manipulate playback,
the playlist, and the database. It is not a full-featured music player
program such as Amarok,
but its clients provide similar functionality.
MPD has a variety of front-ends which communicate with the
server
using a custom protocol over a TCP
connection. Clients include Gnome
Music Player Client, mpc and Ario.
The screenshot above shows GMPC in action.
MPD 0.17.3
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Price
Free to download
Size
0.5MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Avuton Olrich, Max Kellermann, Laszlo Ashin, Viliam
Mateicka, Eric Wollesen, Thomas Jansen, Rasmus Steinke, Romain Bignon,
David Guibert, Jochen Keil, Jeffrey Middleton, Sean McNamara
Website
mpd.wikia.com
System Requirements
Glib
ALSA
icecast2
JACK
libao
OSS
libmad
libmp4ff
libogg
faad
flac
Audio File Library
libmusepack
libmikmod
libid3tag
libvorbis
Support
Sites:
Wiki,
FAQ,
SourceForge
Project Page
Selected
Reviews:
Associated Content
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Features include:
- Minimal hardware requirements
- Plays Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack,
MP2, MP3, MP4/AAC, MOD, Musepack, wave files and any other files
supported by FFmpeg
- Remotely control MPD over a network (IPv4 and IPv6
supported)
- Play FLAC, OggFLAC, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis HTTP streams
- Reads and caches metadata information (ID3 (id3v1 and
id3v2)), Vorbis Comments, and MP4 Metadata
- Metadata information can be searched
- Buffer support for playback (prevents skipping due to high
load or network
latency)
- Gapless playback
- Crossfading support
- Seeking support
- Save, load, and manage playlists (in M3U format)
- Volume control (OSS, ALSA, Pulseaudio and software mixers)
- Native Zeroconf support
- libsamplerate and native sample rate conversion
- Native support for PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, MVP, JACK
- Can be used as a source for an Icecast
stream, in Ogg
Vorbis and MP3. Other formats can be converted to Ogg/MP3 on the fly
before output to the stream server
- Easy to import new songs
- Independent of a Graphical User Interface. Music will
continue playing whether a
front-end is open or not, and will continue playing even if the X
server is terminated
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Last Updated Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 09:11 AM EST
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