Music Player Daemon

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is an open-source music playback and playlist handling daemon. It can be controlled via local clients or remotely.

Supported formats (encoding and decoding)

• MP3 via libmad, libmpg123, LAME, TwoLAME, Shine
• Ogg-Vorbis via libvorbis
• Ogg-Opus via libopus
• FLAC via libflac
• AAC via libfaac
• MOD via MODPlug
• WAV and AIFF via libsndfile, libaudiofile
• Musepack via libmpcdec
• WavPack via libwavpack
• MIDI via FluidSynth, libwildmidi
• Raw PCM directly via the daemon
• Any library/codec/container combination supported by FFmpeg (including ones already supported directly in mpd itself)

Features

• Tags (Ogg, MP4, ID3, Matroska...)
• ReplayGain
• Crossfade
• Gapless playback
• Local and remote filesystems (via NFS, SMB/Samba, UPnP/DLNA, http with curl)
• Local and remote playback
• Local (via UNIX domain sockets) and remote (via IP) control
• Re-encoding (for remote streams)
• Resampling via libsamplerate (optional)

Supported languages

• English.

Supported platforms

• GNU/Linux
• BSD
• Windows

External links

• Homepage
• Online User Manual
• Extensive client list
• Download
• ArchWiki article, including basic setup information.