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Boost makes building a piece of software much more difficult than necessary. It's a huge library, and just uncompressing it takes a considerable amount of time. MPD only used a tiny fraction of it, yet its header bloat made the MPD build very slow. Locating Boost was difficult due to its arcane build system and its resistance to use pkg-config; it's always a special case. MPD could never use features of newer Boost versions because Linux distributions always shipped old Boost versions. Boost made everything complicated and slow. So, finally, after getting rid of GLib (commit ccdb94b06c), switching to C++ and using Boost (commit 0801b3f495a), we've finally get rid of it 8 years later. Unfortunately, I had to reimplement parts of it along the way (e.g. IntrusiveList). Kind of NIH, but on the other hand, compiling MPD has become much easier for users.
Music Player Daemon
A daemon for playing music of various formats. Music is played through the server's audio device. The daemon stores info about all available music, and this info can be easily searched and retrieved. Player control, info retrieval, and playlist management can all be managed remotely.
For basic installation instructions read the manual.
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MPD is released under the GNU General Public License version 2, which is distributed in the COPYING file.