Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing music in various formats and managing playlists. It makes a great desktop player with frontend options (Qt, GTK, ncurses, Windows, and Web clients are available). It is also appropriate as a console player that is scriptable, and is especially useful if X is restarted frequently. A set of rapid development tools for clients are being developed and include a C library, Python module, PHP class, Perl module, and Java Class. The goals are to be easy to install and use, to have minimal resource requirements, to be stable and flexible, and easy to interface.License: GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:
The changes for this release (from alpha 3) include stability fixes, support for non-Unicode and non-Latin1 file names, idle command subscriptions, stream seeking optimizations, ffmpeg tag support, and more. If changed, state saves every 5 minutes.