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Music Player Daemon (MPD) - INSTALL Music Player Daemon (MPD) - INSTALL
Requirements Optional Output Dependencies
------------ ----------------------------
libao - http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp You will need at least one of these to compile MPD.
(This comes with most/all distributions. Make sure you have both
the ao libs and development packages for your distribution installed.
For Red Hat 8.0, the necessary packages are: libao and libao-devel)
zlib - http://www.gzip.org/zlib Most of these are available as packages on major distributions. Be sure to
(This comes with all distributions. Make sure you have bot the zlib libs install both the library package as well as the development package.
and development packages for your distribution installed. For Red hat,
the necessary packages are: zlib and zlib-devel)
Optional AO - http://www.xiph.org/ao/
-------- A portable library that abstracts many audio output types as one API. Should
be used only if there is no native plugin available or if the native plugin
doesn't work. You will need libao.
ALSA - http://www.alsa-project.org/
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Recommended audio output if you use
Linux. You will need libasound.
PulseAudio - http://www.pulseaudio.org/
An advanced sound daemon. You will need libpulse.
libshout - http://www.icecast.org/
For streaming to an Icecast or Shoutcast server.
Optional Input Dependencies
---------------------------
You will need at least one of these to compile MPD.
Most of these are available as packages on major distributions. Be sure to
install both the library package as well as the development package.
MAD - http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
For MP3 support. You will need libmad, and optionally libid3tag if you want
ID3 tag support.
Ogg Vorbis - http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ Ogg Vorbis - http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/
(This comes with most/all distributions. Make sure you have both the For Ogg Vorbis support. You will need libogg and libvorbis.
ogg and vorbis libs as well as the development packages for your
distribution installed. For Red Hat 8.0, the necessary packages are:
libogg, libogg-devel, libvorbis, and libvorbis-devel).
Flac - http://flac.sf.net FLAC - http://flac.sourceforge.net/
For Flac support, you need Flac 1.1.0 or greater. For FLAC support. You will need version 1.1.0 or higher of libflac.
FAAD2 - http://faac.sf.net OggFLAC - http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ and http://flac.sourceforge.net/
For MP4/AAC support. For OggFLAC support. You will need liboggflac, which can be built from the
FLAC sources if libogg is already installed.
Audiofile - http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/ Audio File - http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/
For wave, aiff, and au support. For WAVE, AIFF, and AU support. You will need libaudiofile.
libmikmod - http://mikmod.raphnet.net/ FAAD2 - http://www.audiocoding.com/
For Mod support. For MP4/AAC support. You will need libmp4ff.
libmpcdec - http://www.musepack.net/
For Musepack support.
MikMod - http://mikmod.raphnet.net/
For MOD support. You will need libmikmod.
Download Download
-------- --------
Get the latest release from of MPD from http://www.musicpd.org Get the latest release from of MPD from <http://www.musicpd.org/>.
Compile Compile
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$ tar zxvf mpd-x.x.x.tar.gz $ tar zxvf mpd-x.x.x.tar.gz
or
$ tar jxvf mpd-x.x.x.tar.bz2
2) change to directory created 2) change to directory created
$ cd mpd-x.x.x $ cd mpd-x.x.x
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--- ---
1) run mpd: 1) run mpd:
<port>: port number daemon listens on (if running as a user, this should be
greater than 1024)
<mp3 directory>: directory containing mp3's
<playlist directory>: directory where playlists will be stored (and .mpddb will
be placed)
<mpd log>: log file for mpd
<mpd err>: error log file for mpd
$ mpd <port> <mp3 directory> <playlist directory> <mpd log> <mpd err>
example where mpd executable is in mpd-x.x.x directory:
$ mpd-x.x.x/mpd 6600 mp3 playlists mpd.log mpd.err
Note: The first time you run mpd, it will "explore" your mp3 directory for
mp3's.
Also, mpd can alternatively use config file. In this case,
run mpd like this:
$ mpd <config file> $ mpd <config file>
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A sample config file is included with the source of MPD, mpdconf.example . A sample config file is included with the source of MPD, mpdconf.example .
Note: The first time you run mpd, it will "explore" your mp3 directory for
mp3's.
Using MPD Using MPD
--------- ---------
You can download a web interface (phpMp) to MPD at You can download a web interface (phpMp) to MPD at <http://www.musicpd.org/>.
http://www.musicpd.org .
Also, several other clients can be found for MPD at http://www.musicpd.org . Also, several other clients can be found for MPD at <http://www.musicpd.org/>.
MPD can be interfaced directly using telnet (see COMMANDS, if you are brave). MPD can be interfaced directly using telnet (see COMMANDS, if you are brave).