MPD - Music Player Daemon

Wat is Music Player Daemon (MPD)?

MPD is een flexibel programma om muziek mee af spelen.

Draait als service/daemon
Fungeert als server
Er is een client nodig voor de bediening
Kan zonder X
Werkt met ALSA, PulseAudio, OSS, MVP en JACK
Ook voor Windows en Mac OS X

Welke bestandstypen kan MPD afspelen?

MP3, WAV
FLAC, OGG
HTTP streams

Installatie

sudo apt-get install mpd

Starten met:

mpd

Opties:

mpd --kill
mpd --no-daemon

Configuratie in /etc/mpd.conf

Configuratie 1

Stop de service (als root):

sudo service mpd stop
sudo update-rc.d mpd disable

Maak alle benodigde mappen en bestanden:

mkdir -p ~/.mpd/playlists
touch ~/.mpd/{mpd.db,mpd.log,mpd.pid,mpdstate}

Configuratie 2

Maak het configuratie-bestand ~/.mpd/mpd.conf

music_directory		"/home/tuna/music"
playlist_directory	"/home/tuna/.mpd/playlists"
db_file			"/home/tuna/.mpd/tag_cache"
log_file		"/home/tuna/.mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file		"/home/tuna/.mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file		"/home/tuna/.mpd/mpdstate"
#user			"mpd"

Configuratie 3

Extra opties in ~/.mpd/mpd.conf

auto_update		"yes"
mixer_type		"software"
replaygain		"track"
gapless_mp3_playback	"yes"

Configuratie 4

audio_output in ~/.mpd/mpd.conf

audio_output {
type		"alsa"
name		"My ALSA Device"
device		"hw:0,0"    # optional
format		"44100:16:2"    # optional
mixer_device	"default"    # optional
mixer_control	"PCM"        # optional
mixer_index	"0"        # optional
}

Start MPD

mpd

Automatisch starten via
~/.config/autostart/mpd.desktop
of
/etc/xdg/autostart/mpd.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Music Player Daemon
Comment=Server for playing audio files
Exec=mpd
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

Clients

MPD stuurt geen muziek naar de clients
Clients zijn slechts afstandsbediening
Voor Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iPhone

Command line client: MPC

Client om MPD aan te sturen vanaf de command line

sudo apt-get install mpc

Voorbeelden:

mpc pause
mpc prev
mpc random on
mpc update

Console clients

ncmpc (Curses)
ncmpcpp (C++)
pms (Ncurses / vi keybindings)
ncmpy (Python + Curses)
dmpc (Dmenu)
vimus (Haskell / vi key-bindings)
vimpc (Curses / vi keybindings)

Grafische clients

ario (GTK2)
sonata (GTK+)
glurp (GTK+)
gmpc
pygmy (PyGTK)
xfmpc (GTK+)
qmpdclient (Qt4)

Clients over netwerk

configuratie in ~/.mpd/mpd.conf

bind_to_address		"localhost"
bind_to_address 	"192.168.1.70"
#password	"1234@read,add,control,admin"

Clients voor android

MPDroid
DroidMPD
BitMPC
PMix
ThreeMPD

http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients

Conky

System Monitor

TEXT
${if_mpd_playing}$mpd_title
$mpd_artist
$mpd_album
$mpd_elapsed/$mpd_length
${mpd_bar 8,200}
$endif

Wiki, howto, etc...

http://www.musicpd.org/

http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=182574