Music Player Daemon (MPD) - INSTALL Requirements ------------ libao - http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp (This comes with most/all distributions. Make sure you have both the ao libs and development packages for your distribution installed. For Red Hat 8.0, the necessary packages are: libao and libao-devel) zlib - http://www.gzip.org/zlib (This comes with all distributions. Make sure you have bot the zlib libs and development packages for your distribution installed. For Red hat, the necessary packages are: zlib and zlib-devel) Optional -------- Ogg Vorbis - http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ (This comes with most/all distributions. Make sure you have both the ogg and vorbis libs as well as the development packages for your distribution installed. For Red Hat 8.0, the necessary packages are: libogg, libogg-devel, libvorbis, and libvorbis-devel). Flac - http://flac.sf.net For Flac support, you need Flac 1.1.0 or greater. Download -------- Get the latest release from of MPD from http://www.musicpd.org Compile ------- 1) unzip and untar the archive $ tar zxvf mpd-x.x.x.tar.gz 2) change to directory created $ cd mpd-x.x.x 3) Run configure script (this will determine what dependencies you have) $ ./configure 4) Compile $ make Install (Optional) ------- (as root) $ make install Run --- 1) run mpd: : port number daemon listens on (if running as a user, this should be greater than 1024) : directory containing mp3's : directory where playlists will be stored (and .mpddb will be placed) : log file for mpd : error log file for mpd $ mpd example where mpd executable is in mpd-x.x.x directory: $ mpd-x.x.x/mpd 2100 mp3 playlists mpd.log mpd.err Note: The first time you run mpd, it will "explore" your mp3 directory for mp3's. Also, mpd can alternatively use config file. In this case, run mpd like this: $ mpd (if no config file is specified, mpd's looks for ~/.mpdconf then /etc/mpd.conf) an example would be: $ mpd playlists/.mpdconf A sample config file is included with the source of MPD, mpdconf.example . Using MPD --------- You can download a web interface (phpMp) to MPD at http://www.musicpd.org . Also, several other clients can be found for MPD at http://www.musicpd.org . MPD can be interfaced directly using telnet (see COMMANDS, if you are brave).