Questions tagged [mpd]

Music Player Daemon [MPD] - flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music

The Music Player Daemon or short MPD is an excellent choice for streaming audio to other computers or even mobile devices, like phones/mp3-players, that are connected with the net.

MPD is designed around a client/server architecture, where the clients and 
server (MPD is the server) interact over a network. Thus, running MPD is only 
half of the equation. To use MPD, you need to install a MPD client (aka MPD 
interface).

MPD works with terminal or graphical based interface clients:

  • mpc - a solid, lightweight, simple mpd client, written in C. Console Clients

  • ncmpc - A curses client written in C.

  • ncmpcpp - A curses client written in C++ tailored after ncmpc. Graphical Clients

  • gmpc (Gnome Music Player Client) - A fully featured client.

  • ario - Another GTK based client.

  • More clients can be found on the Wiki

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MPD with pulseaudio

I have recently made a clean install of Ubuntu 14.10 and once again I am left with trouble with MPD. I think I had managed to fix it last time, but I am not sure how. My issue is to be able to use an external bluetooth speaker with MPD. Even better,…
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mpd conflicting with other applications -- taking control of pulse?

Simple explanation If mpd is playing and sound attempts to play through another application, x, sound from x will not be output. If sound from another application, x, is playing and mpd then attempts to play, no sound will be output from mpd whilst…
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"Failed to open audio output" error when trying to send audio from mpd to pulseaudio

When I try to play mpd through pulseaudio, mpd.log reports: pulse_output: Failed to enable "Pink ROCKI" [pulse]: pa_context_connect() has failed: Connection refused Pulse seems to be working fine since pacmd list-sinks shows all my pulse sinks,…
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mpd: Failed to read mixer for 'My ALSA Device': no such mixer control: PCM

I had mpd/mpc running on my Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS headless, X-less server. I decided to switch out the songs; I moved the old songs out of the /Music directory, moved the new songs in, and ran mpc update, but it failed to resume playing. Naturally, I…
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mplayer can't play audio from cron while ncmpcpp is playing simultaneously

I have set up a script, which executes an mplayer command, in order to play audio in crontab. It will be executed in a special set time, but this script can not play audio when ncmpcpp (a front-end for mpd, aka. Music Player Daemon) is playing…
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MPD deletes previous played song from playlist

Whenever I use mpc next or any other player (ncmpcpp) MPD will play the next song and will remove the previous song from the playlist (generated by mpc add /). My mpd.conf is located at /etc/mpd.conf And I've not found any directives associated to…
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mpd httpd streaming not working

I have installed mpd and configured it to work flawlessly with gmpc locally. I also use mpdroid on my phone and I want to stream music from my library to the phone. The music control from mpdroid works without a glitch. But when i try to stream from…
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ncmpcpp can't find my music

I finally got ncmpcpp and MPD to work, but ncmpcpp won't find my music. I've restarted MPD multiple times, installed mpc and run mpc update, pressed U inside ncmpcpp, restarted my machine, tried with the music on my external HDD, tried with a…
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MPD ERROR: Failed to open audio output after re-installing

Having MPD v.0.19 and Ubuntu 15.04 for quite some time now I wanted to check out the latest version 0.20 thus downloaded it and followed the instructions to compile it on my own. Unfortunately this did not work out so I want to fall back to the…
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mpd crashes on database update

Mpd (latest version from repositories, Ubuntu 14.10) crashes when refreshing the database. At first it crashed on every m4a file, even with the necessary libraries (libmad0) installed and up to date. So I moved all m4a files out of my music…
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Flash Breaking Pulseaudio?

Since posting this question, it has been revealed that the problem was with mpd — not Flash. Here is the question I posted in an attempt to find a fix. Every time a Flash object with sound (such as a video) loads in my browser (Chromium or Firefox),…
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MPD to play music to single channel of my multi-channel card?

I installed an Ubuntu 12-04 LTS server for a special background music application of mine, where I am using the server with an Asus Xonar DS sound card. The installation is successful, the MPD is working, the sound card is working with Alsa and its…
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Newer mpd for 18.04

Is there an easy way of installing mpd 0.21.20 or newer in Ubuntu 18.04? The machine has 32 bit Ubuntu. I currently have version 0.20.18-1build1 from bionic/universe i386 Packages installed.
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Prevent mpd finally from auto-starting

I currently have a wierd problem: i cant stop mpd from autostarting after reboot. I installed mpd from the official repositorys. then i disabled it at systemd because i want it to run under the normal user and not as a service automatically: sudo…
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Is there a way to search an MPD library with the music lens?

I use MPD, along with the GUI client Sonata to play all my music. It works quite well, but none of my music shows up in the music lens (since I don't use Banshee or Rhythmbox, it's just empty). Has anyone created an MPD scope for the music lens so…
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