Music Player Daemon
Server-side music player supporting multiple audio formats. It requires a client and can be controlled remotely. MPD features gapless playback, crossfading, and is compatible with multiple audio systems. It can stream to Icecast and has a built-in HTTP server.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Lossless Audio
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Server-side
- Music Library
- Support for Remote Control
- Playlists
- Stream audio
- Crossfading
- Gapless Playback
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- walkingstick reviewed Music Player Daemon
Great framework for building a custom music setup. I've been using this since `02 or so with various frontends for controlling playback. This works best on another machine with some speakers dedicated to playing music (or maybe the occasional movie as well)
- Danilo_Venom updated Music Player Daemon
- walkingstick added Extensible by Plugins/Extensions as a feature to Music Player Daemon
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What is Music Player Daemon?
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server-side software for playing music. It can play various audio files through plugins and libraries, manage playlists, and maintain a music database. It requires a client program for interaction and includes a command-line client, mpc, in its package.
MPD supports multiple audio formats like Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, WavPack, MP2, MP3, MP4/AAC, MOD, Musepack, and wave files via FFmpeg. It can be remotely controlled over a network, supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and can play FLAC, OggFLAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis HTTP streams. It also reads, caches, and searches metadata information.
Additional features include buffer support for playback, gapless playback, crossfading, and seeking support. It allows users to manage playlists in M3U format and has native Zeroconf support, libsamplerate, and native sample rate conversion. It's compatible with various audio systems like ALSA, PulseAudio, PipeWire, OSS, MVP, JACK, Windows, and macOS. MPD can be used as a source for an Icecast stream, features a built-in HTTP streaming server, and can play music files inside .zip archives. It operates independently of a GUI, so music continues to play without a front-end.
Music Player Daemon information
Developed by
Max Kellermann Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 3.8Alternatives
12 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Audio & MusicGitHub repository
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Comments and Reviews
Doesn't work out of the box at all. Good luck. Seriously, I can write a server that receives commands to play back music files probably within an hour, maybe even less. It is not that difficult. Considering that it puzzles me how one managed to screw this up so much
Great framework for building a custom music setup. I've been using this since `02 or so with various frontends for controlling playback. This works best on another machine with some speakers dedicated to playing music (or maybe the occasional movie as well)
Great to run a headless music player. In my case it runs on my server and delivers audio via HDMI to the amplifier.
Has many front ends