Music Player Demon

See also: MPD

Music Player Demon (MPD) is a audio Lecteur free which gives distant access since another computer. An example would be a waiter making turn MPD and using one of its frontal customers to control it remotely. It is also a good audio reader for the office, especially if you do not use or often start again X.

It uses a Database (like the other music players) to store basic information of each file. With the difference of some other readers audios (like XMMS2 for example, who uses SQLite) the format of the database is simple a Textual file, arranged alphabetically site and of file name. This can make research less effective, nevertheless the size of the database is generally too small to distinguish a difference.

Functionalities

  • Cheek the files Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, OggFLAC, MP2, MP3, MP4/AAC, MOD, Musepack and wave;

  • distant Control of MPD via a network (IPv4 and supported IPv6);
  • Cheek of the streams MP3 and Ogg Vorbis;
  • Records information of the tags ID3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2 on formats MP3, FLAC and AAC);
  • Records the comments Vorbis (Ogg and FLAC);
  • Records information MP4 (MP4/AAC);
  • ID3/Vorbis information can be required;
  • Storage medium plug during the reading (allows to avoid the jumps due to an important load or the latency of the network);
  • Cheek uninterrupted piece after piece without white ( in gapless ), perfect to listen to an album live;
  • Support of the Fader;
  • Support of advance during a song;
  • To record, charge and manage playlists with the format m3u;
  • Control of volume (software OSE, ALSA and mixers);
  • Great number of supported audio equipment (OSE, ALSA, Sun, Esd, Arts, JACK…) ;
  • Multiplateforme: tested on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and HP-UX.

MPD can also be useful like source for a stream Icecast (with the format Ogg Vorbis) and thus allow distant listening like a radio.

Customers

MPD has a variety of user interfaces to communicate with the waiter, using a common protocol on a connection TCP. The most used customers are:

  • mpc : a simple customer in line of order;

  • QMPDClient: a very advanced graphic customer in Qt 4;
  • Sonata: a graphic customer GTK+;
  • GMPC: a graphic customer for the environment GNOME;
  • Pygmy: a graphic customer GTK+;
  • pymp' D: a customer of the iTune type writes in Python using PyGTK;
  • KMP: a customer using Qt to be integrated into environment KDE;
  • phpMp2: turning in a navigator Web;
  • ncmpc: a customer comforts using ncurses.
  • Ario; a graphic customer GTK2;

External bonds

  • Official site

  • official Wiki

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