Music Player Daemon
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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.
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Developer(s) | Max Kellermann |
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Initial release | 2003; 21 years ago (2003) |
Stable release | |
Preview release | none [±] |
Repository | |
Written in | C++ (since 0.18)[2] |
Operating system | Unix-like (BSDs, Linux, macOS,…) Windows |
Type | Audio player |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | www |
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MPD is used in proprietary audio hardware. The MPD project maintains a list of vendors, some of which infringe the GPL.[3]