Music Player Daemon
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing music in various formats and managing playlists. It makes a great desktop player with frontend options (Qt, GTK, ncurses, Windows, and Web clients are available). It is also appropriate as a console player that is scriptable, and is especially useful if X is restarted frequently. A set of rapid development tools for clients are being developed and include a C library, Python module, PHP class, Perl module, and Java Class. The goals are to be easy to install and use, to have minimal resource requirements, to be stable and flexible, and easy to interface.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Players MP3 Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD Linux Solaris NetBSD OpenBSD |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 25 Jun 2009 00:45
Changes: This stable release has about 6 months of changes, 350 file changes, over 50,000 line changes, and over 1000 commits. Some of the highlights are: 24/32 bit support, audio archive support (bz2/iso9660/zip), all config entries are completely optional now, multiple and pulseaudio mixer support, new audio playing modes (consume, etc.), a sticker database, improved tag parsing of all types, and many more.
- 08 May 2009 13:18
Changes: This release fixes a few critical bugs from 0.15~beta1 in the shoutcast and httpd output plugins and the vorbis encoder plugin.
- 30 Apr 2009 17:28
Changes: This major test release contains hundreds of fixes, refactoring of major subsystems and plugins, and dozens of new features. Features include a new mixer API allowing different mixers, audio archive extraction, stickers database support, a native Solaris output plugin, more complete ffmpeg support, and much more. Since alpha1 there have been many bugfixes and a few critical modifications, such as icy support for the httpd plugin.
- 02 Apr 2009 17:49
Changes: This major test release contains hundreds of fixes, refactoring of major subsystems and plugins, and dozens of new features. Features include a new mixer API allowing different mixers, audio archive extraction, stickers database support, a native Solaris output plugin, more complete ffmpeg support, and much more.
- 13 Feb 2009 18:39
Changes: This release contains bugfixes for many decoder plugins. It adds True Audio file support and WAV streaming in the ffmpeg decoder plugin.
- All comments
Recent commentsIt's one of the best music players there are. The idea of using the client-server architecture on the desktop is very good, I wish more developers embraced this approach.
Re: Wonderful!
Great project, i really love it and use it every day!
Re: Wonderful!
Oh yes, you´re right. I´ve installed Winamp before but the Music Player Daemon is better than every other program because of its wide range of audio devices and the frontend options. (http://www.sound-planet.de)
Wonderful!
I would just like to say that you people are doing a great job, and that mpd, in conjunction with mpc and gmpc, is by far my favourite music player. Keep it up!