Music Player Daemon

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a free and open source music player server. It plays audio files, organizes playlists and maintains a music database. In order to interact with it, a client program is needed. The MPD distribution includes mpc, a simple command line client.

Music Player Daemon
Developer(s)Max Kellermann
Initial release2003 (2003)
Stable release
0.23.15 / 20 December 2023 (20 December 2023)
Preview releasenone [±]
Repository
Written inC++ (since 0.18)
Operating systemUnix-like (BSDs, Linux, macOS,…) Windows
TypeAudio player
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewww.musicpd.org

MPD is used in proprietary audio hardware. The MPD project maintains a list of vendors, some of which infringe the GPL.

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