MPD

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Introduction

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.

Installation

Enable Packman repository from YaST2 Repositories, Community Repositories.

 zypper in mpd mpc

Configuration

Edit /etc/mpd.conf and change the following:

 music_directory                 "/path/to/yourcollection"

 audio_output {
       type                    "alsa"
       name                    "My ALSA Device"
 }

Starting the service

Run the following as root:

 insserv mpd
 rcmpd start

Using it

Install any of the various MPD clients available, there are some also available in Packman repository.

You can setup web based clients such as iPodMp and use iphone/ipod's browser to control the music from anywhere.

See also

• http://mpd.wikia.com/