MPD does not stream audio; all playback occurs on the server where the music files are located. The remote client controls playback from a nearby location.

MPD uses a text file as a database in which to maintain the basic music file information when it is not running. Once the daemon is started, the database is kept completely in-memory and no hard disk access is necessary to look up or search for a song. This database does not allow arbitrary files to be added; music files must be above the music root directory and are only added to the database when the update command is sent to the server.

Install:

Edit config file/etc/mpd.conf:

Create dir and set own:

Create DB:

Add all music to playlist and… play:

References

mpd –create-db

This will start the daemon. The ‘–create-db’ argument will read the contents of the root music directory and add the Music files to a text database. You should see the list of files being added into the DB. This may take some time to complete – based on size of your music collection.

mpc update

The command used here is ‘mpc’ – not ‘mpd’. We are using a command line client now. This command scans the root music directory for updates.

mpc add /

This command will add all the files in the music directory to the current playlist. Please note that the ‘/’ here means root music directory – and not the global linux root.

mpc play

This will start playing the files in the current playlist.

Links

• Music Player Daemon
• MPD Wiki
• MPD Wiki::Clients
• MPD Wiki::Security
• Minion – Plugin Firefox

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