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Previously, there was the setting `buffered_before_play` which specified a percentage of the audio buffer, defaulting to `10%`. That was working well enough for quite some time, until high-quality audio formats became common. At 44.1 kHz, 16 bit stereo, MPD collected 2.3 seconds worth of data in the buffer before starting playback. With the same default settings and 192 kHz, 24 bit stereo, that was only 0.27 seconds. Making this depend on the byte size only leads to high latency at low quality, and too little data at high quality. The natural choice would be to use a duration instead of a byte size, which should give the same good experience with all audio formats. Since the `buffered_before_play` configuration setting was not understood well by users and caused more harm than good, this commit deprecates it. It has now no effect.
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.