Music Player Daemon (original) (raw)
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.
News
Stylophone 2.7.0 released
Stylophone 2.7.0 has been released.
This update noticeably brings macOS to the list of supported operating systems.
MMC4W v.2.0.6 released
MMC4W The Minimal MPD Client for Windows v2.0.6 is now available.
New improved Playlist Builder Mode. Better searching, saving of window sizes and positions.
MMC4W.py now also runs in Linux without modification. I’ve tested it under Ubuntu and Mint.
More details in the help and README.txt.
MMC4W v.2.0.1 released
MMC4W The Minimal MPD Client for Windows v2.0.1 is now available.
A new Queue menu lists the queue so you can search for and jump to specific songs in the current queue.
Folder art is now supported in addition to embedded art.
More details in the help and README.txt.
MMC4W v.2.0.0 released
MMC4W The Minimal MPD Client for Windows v2.0.0 is now available.README.txt
MPD 0.23.15 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.15 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.14 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.14 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.13 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.13 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.12 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.12 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.11 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.11 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.10 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.10 has been released.Change log
Stylophone 2.5 released
Stylophone 2.5 has been released, now featuring an iOS version.
Change log
MPD 0.23.9 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.9 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.8 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.8 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.7 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.7 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.6 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.6 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.5 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.5 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.4 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.4 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.3 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.3 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23.2 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.2 has been released.
MPD 0.23.1 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23.1 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.23 released
Music Player Daemon 0.23 has been released.
Notable features of this major release:
- native PipeWire and Snapcast support
- improved CUE sheet support
- several new protocol features
- support for several new core tags
- permissions depending on client IP address
MPD 0.22.11 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.11 has been released.Change log
Forum disabled
Today, I have turned off the forum. Almost all of the traffic in the last few years was spam; deleting it every day seemed like a waste of time, and the problem got only worse. Those who seek support needed to register yet an account on yet another website, which made the forum hard to reach. The forum link now redirects to GitHub discussions; that also requires an account, but many people already have a GitHub account. Those who don’t want that can still get MPD support via IRC on libera.chat.
MPD 0.22.10 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.10 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22.9 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.9 has been released.Change log
Bye Freenode; Hello Libera.Chat
Last week, the MPD project has moved its IRC channel from Freenode toLibera.Chat. This seemed necessary afterrecent events at Freenode. Meanwhile, the original #mpd
channel on Freenode was seized by Freenode staff. Point your IRC client to irc.libera.chat
and join the new #mpd
channel!
MPD 0.22.8 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.8 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22.7 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.7 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22.6 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.6 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22.5 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.5 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22.4 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.4 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22.3 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.3 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22.2 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.2 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22.1 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22.1 has been released.Change log
MPD 0.22 released
Music Player Daemon 0.22 has been released.
This new major release contains numerous improvements: new database queries, album art support, partitions, io_uring and much more.
MPD 0.21.26 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.26has been released.
MPD 0.21.25 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.25 has been released.
As usual, there were various bug fixes. Check the NEWS filefor details.
libmpdclient 2.19 released
libmpdclient2.19has been released.
There are a few bug fixes and support for various new and older protocol features.
MPD 0.21.24 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.24 has been released.
As usual, there were various bug fixes. Check the NEWS filefor details.
MPD 0.21.23 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.23 has been released.
As usual, there were various bug fixes. Check the NEWS filefor details.
MPD 0.21.22 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.22has been released.
As usual, there were various bug fixes. Check the NEWS filefor details.
MPD 0.21.21 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.21has been released.
As usual, there were various bug fixes. Check the NEWS filefor details.
MPD 0.21.20 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.20has been released.
This release fixes several seeking bugs.
ncmpc 0.37 released
ncmpc0.37 has been released.
This version fixes a bug which broke compatibility with MPD versions older than 0.21 (ncmpc requires at least MPD 0.19). The “outputs” page can manage partitions (MPD 0.22 feature). The “search” page has a new filter for file modification time.
libmpdclient 2.18 released
libmpdclient2.18has been released.
This release is mostly about supporting the new partitioning feature in the upcoming MPD version 0.22.
MPD 0.21.19 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.19has been released.
This release allows overriding configuration settings in includes. PulseAudio’s maximum sample rate is now obeyed, which fixes DSD128 playback.
MPD 0.21.18 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.18has been released.
This release fixes a crash bug in the CURL storage plugin and fixes a hang bug when using an ALSA “null” output.
MPD 0.21.17 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.17has been released.
More ISO8601 formats supported for modified-since
. Unicode problems with Shout metadata fixed. Jack ports are now makred “terminal”.
libmpdclient 2.17 released
libmpdclient2.17has been released.
It adds support for lots of protocol features: listneighbors
,getfingerprint
, partitions and binary responses.
ncmpc 0.36 released
ncmpc0.36 has been released.
It reduces the network traffic for various commands and allows using the Alt modifier in hotkeys.
mpc 0.33 released
mpc 0.33 has been released.
It fixes an off-by-one bug in the prio
command and reduces the network traffic for various commands.
MPD 0.21.16 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.16has been released.
If fixes various character encoding bugs in the curl
storage plugin (used for WebDAV) and a bug in the move
command.
MPD 0.21.15 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.15has been released.
It fixes bogus ReplayGain values in the mpcdec
plugin which caused distorted sound, bogus bit rate values in the two DSD plugins and a rare build failure with glibc 2.30.
ncmpc 0.35 released
ncmpc 0.35 has been released.
This release fixes various minor bugs and improves the default song format.
MPD 0.21.14 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.14has been released.
This release fixes a crash bug, a seek bug and a protocol error message bug. Additionally, it contains several improvements for thesidplay
decoder plugin.
MPD 0.21.13 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.13has been released.
It fixes crackling sound in the mad
decoder plugin (0.21.12 regression).
MPD 0.21.12 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.12has been released.
Various bugs which caused problems with gapless playback have been solved in the decoder plugins mad
, opus
and vorbis
.
MPD 0.21.11 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.11has been released.
The command list
supports multiple group
levels (was implemented improperly until version 0.20.22). There are various ALSA specific fixes, improving xrun protection, buffer drain and DSD_U32 support. The defunct Tidal plugin has been deprecated (Tidal has changed the protocol).
mpc 0.32 released
mpc 0.32 has been released.
There is a new command listneighbors
. Searches are faster because unused tags will not be transferred. Abstract sockets are now supported in the --host
option.
MPD 0.21.10 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.10has been released.
This release fixes a crash bug introduced in 0.21.9.
MPD 0.21.9 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.9has been released.
A deadlock bug in the input buffering code has been fixed, and a race condition in the “single” mode handler.
MPD 0.21.8 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.8has been released.
A SoundCloud regression has been fixed. The smbclient
plugin enables buffering. Various build failures have been fixed.
ncmpc 0.34 released
ncmpc0.34 has been released.
This release fixes various minor bugs and shows the total duration of the range selection in the status bar.
MPD 0.21.7 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.7has been released.
Two minor build failure has been fixed (one with -Dlocal=no
and one with non-standard libgcrypt
installation path). Two Haiku-specific bugs have been fixed. The Qobuz/Tidal plugins now load metadata for songs loaded from a stored playlist.
MPD 0.21.6 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.6has been released.
There several filter expression fixes, crash bug fixes and other minor bug fixes (e.g. Opus seeking, Pulse multichannel, …).
Playlists can be loaded from arbitrary local filesystem paths and the Linux build supports listening on abstract sockets.
The Windows build no longer requires libwinpthread-1.dll
.
MPD 0.21.5 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.5has been released.
There are numerous bug fixes in the commands albumart
andtagtypes
, in the simple
database plugin, in the udisks
storage plugin. There is support for the “Album Artist” tag in APE tags and the shout
output plugin can use TLS.
MPD 0.21.4 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.4has been released.
This version fixes a crash bug with inotify, a connection problem on Windows and a build failure on Haiku.
MPD 0.21.3 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.3has been released.
This release fixes various bugs in the ALSA output plugin. If MPD is started as a systemd service and no log file is configured, MPD defaults to the journal instead of syslog.
MPD 0.21.2 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.2has been released.
There are three crash bug fixes in the httpd
plugin (related to the option always_on
), the ALSA plugin uses less CPU with dmix, and the broken zlib support has been fixed. A bug in the FFmpeg plugin which caused broken sound was fixed.
In filter expressions, there are two new operators: one matches substrings, and one uses regular expressions.
MPD 0.21.1 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21.1has been released.
It contains the first bunch of fixes for regressions, most of them build failures. Two important changes affect the new filter expressions: strings can now be escaped with backslash and operator==
no longer searches substrings.
MPD 0.21 released
Music Player Daemon 0.21 has been released.
This new major release has been in the works for nearly two years. There are numerous new features, for example:
- includes in
mpd.conf
- new filter syntax (allows negation and more)
- search results can be sorted
- album art
- HTTP buffering
- Qobuz and Tidal streaming
- DSD over PCM support on macOS
- … and many many more
MPD 0.20.23 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.23has been released.
The clang compiler bug has caused many more crashes on Android, and this release contains a more reliable workaround. Additionally, a missing player
idle event has been added and a float-to-s32 conversion bug has been fixed.
mpc 0.31 released
mpc 0.31 has been released (source tarball).
There are new commands queued
, seekthrough
, mount
, unmount
. The search
command accepts MPD 0.21 filter expressions. Commandload
can be used with a range.
MPD 0.20.22 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.22has been released.
The protocol has seen several bug fixes, e.g. list ... group
now works properly. The curl
storage plugin encodes paths. The experimental Android app can now run as a service. There is a workaround for a clang compiler bug which could cause crashes.
ncmpc 0.33 released
ncmpc 0.33 has been released (source tarball).
Fixes a configuration parser bug and a build failure. Building now requires Meson 0.47 and a few obsolete options have been removed. The “artist” page has been renamed to “library” and the tags on that page are now configurable.
libmpdclient 2.16 released
libmpdclient 2.16 has been released (source tarball).
The command load
can now be used with a range and the mount
commands have been added.
ncmpc 0.32 released
ncmpc 0.32 has been released (source tarball).
Several crash bugs and one build failure have been fixed. A good amount of code refactoring has eliminated the GLib dependency; instead, boost::asio
is used as the new I/O event loop.
ncmpc 0.31 released
ncmpc0.31 has been released.
This release is a major overhaul of the UI look: colors are enabled by default and different background colors can now be configured. The new default color theme is supposed to make ncmpc look more friendly. At the top, ncmpc shows a list of all pages.
ncmpc considers $XDG_CONFIG_DIR
for loading its configuration file. The old path ~/.ncmpc/config
is obsolete, but will be used as fallback.
The minimum required MPD version has been raised to 0.19.
libmpdclient 2.15 released
libmpdclient2.15has been released.
There are various new functions to support the MPD 0.21 protocol, e.g. per-song audio format and new database search features.
MPD 0.20.21 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.21has been released.
The proxy
database plugin supports more tags and a “password” setting. Cuesheets support the non-standard “FLAC” file type. URI schemes are case-insensitive. The Android and Windows builds now have the curl
storage plugin (for WebDAV). The Android build supports Aarch64 and x86 CPUs.
MPD 0.20.20 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.20has been released.
A problem with the modified-since
filter has been fixed. Pulse streams are “corked” while paused due to “single” mode. The DSD decoders support more MIME types and larger ID3 tags. The Opus decoder supports the R128_ALBUM_GAIN
tag. The Android and Windows builds have the proxy
database plugin.
mpc 0.30 released
mpc 0.30 has been released.
It adds a rescan
command and optimizes seeking.
MPD 0.20.19 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.19has been released.
This release fixes crash bugs in the mms
input plugin and on macOS, supports FFmpeg 4.0 (compiler warning) and implements “list … group” in the proxy
database plugin.
ncmpc 0.30 released
ncmpc0.30 has been released.
Two crash bugs (search screen and chat screen) and a tab completion bug have been fixed. The look of the progress bar has been slightly improved. ncmpc has been rewritten in C++, and the manual is now built with Sphinx.
MPD 0.20.18 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.18has been released.
Gapless CUE sheet playback has been fixed, and the curl
plugin now allows authentication methods other than “Basic”. On Android and Windows, the nfs
storage plugin is now available.
MPD 0.20.17, mpc 0.29, libmpdclient 2.14 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.17has been released. A crash bug in the ALSA output and a rounding error in the ALSA mixer plugin has been fixed. Real-time scheduling with Musl has been fixed. The Android builds are now compatible with Android version 4.0.Change log
mpc 0.29has been released. Build with recent C compilers (GCC 7 and clang 4.0) has been fixed. There is now the --format
directive “%prio
”. The default format falls back to “performer” if there is no “artist” tag. The outputs
command now prints attributes. mpc now uses Meson/ninja instead of autotools to build.Change log
libmpdclient 2.14has been released. It can receive output attributes (MPD 0.21) and has improved support for local and abstract sockets.Change log
GPL Violation in Cary Audio DMS-500
Update (2020/02/11) this issue has been resolved meanwhile. Cary Audio has published the modified MPD source code.
Cary Audio sells a product called “DMS-500” which is based on MPD. Their MPD binary has been linked with various proprietary libraries, including the Roon RAAT SDK and a MQA decoder.
After my request for the source code, Cary Audio has sent me a tarball with only a part of the source, and it doesn’t even compile. The most important parts have been ripped out of that tarball. So far, Cary Audio has not replied to my complaint.
According to theGPLv2 section 4, Cary Audio’s license to distribute MPD is terminated. Hence, Cary Audio products containing MPD are illegal due to copyright violation.
Note: it is allowed to sell commercial products with MPD, but you must obey the GPL.
MPD 0.20.16 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.16 has been released.
This release fixes a PulseAudio plugin crash during auto-detection, a crash bug on Haiku, database search within mount points and makes theiso9660
archive plugin compatible with libcdio 2.0.
MPD 0.20.15 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.15has been released.
A crash bug after seek failure has been fixed, and two bugs related to restoring mounts from the state file. The soxr
resampler clears its internal state after manual song change. The Android port no longer crashes from Android 8’s seccomp filter.
MPD 0.20.14 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.14has been released.
It fixes state file corruption in the presence of mount points and a Solaris build failure. Locking in all archive plugins has been optimized to reduce xruns.
MPD 0.20.13 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.13has been released.
There are fixes for macOS xruns, ALSA mixer rounding errors, mount points, queue priority problems and Windows build failures.
MPD 0.20.12 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.12has been released.
This release contains lots of important bug fixes, e.g.:
cdio_paranoia
,ffmpeg
,smbclient
and local files: xrun problems fixedcurl
: seeking bug fixedvorbis
: Tremor audio corruption bug fixedsoxr
: freeze bug fixedhttpd
: Vorbis stream corruption bug fixed
ncmpc 0.29 released
ncmpc0.29 has been released.
It fixes two crash bugs after connection failure, re-adds the “lyrics_plugin_dir” compile-time option and allows detecting libncurses without pkg-config.
MPD 0.20.11 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.11has been released.
It fixes problems with Unicode paths, song durations with the ffmpeg
plugin, track numbering with the gme
plugin and addsapplication/xml
support to the curl
(WebDAV) storage plugin.
ncmpc 0.28 released
ncmpc0.28 has been released.
It fixes two crash bugs, repairs password transmission and hides the password from the user interface.
ncmpc now builds withMeson/Ninjainstead of autotools.
MPD 0.20.10 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.10has been released.
This release fixes two crash bugs, AIFF tags. It adds support for MusicBrainz tags to the FFmpeg decoder plugin and adds a macOS mixer plugin.
The Windows builds are back.
libmpdclient 2.13 released
libmpdclient2.13has been released.
It fixes the “Operation now in progress” bug, and fixes a problem with Meson version 0.38.1 or newer.
libmpdclient 2.12 released
libmpdclient2.12has been released.
Various new MPD commands have been made available.
libmpdclient now builds withMeson/Ninjainstead of autotools.
MPD 0.20.9 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.9has been released.
It fixes more random crashes when compiled with clang, and fixes byte order detection on FreeBSD.
MPD 0.20.8 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.8has been released.
It fixes a build failure with GCC 4.9 and one on Mac OS X.
MPD 0.20.7 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.7has been released.
It fixes random crashes when compiled with a recent clang version due to a new compiler optimization gone wrong. Two more crash bugs were fixed which could occur with implausible audio buffer settings. Directory loop detection on NFS was broken because MPD truncated inode numbers to 32 bit; now MPD uses the full 64 bit.
Moving to GitHub
After the Mantis hack, I have decided to rely less on self-hosted servers and use GitHub instead. For this, I have created theMusicPlayerDaemon organization on GitHuband moved my projects there. These are now the official repositories and the official place to report bugs and feature requests.
Client developers interested in moving a project into the organization shall drop me an email (max+github@musicpd.org).
The old git server (git.musicpd.org) and the mantis server (bugs.musicpd.org) are fading out. Please update your git:// URIs, e.g.:
git remote set-url origin git://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD
Bug tracker vandalized
A critical Mantis security vulnerabilitywas used to vandalize the MPD bug tracker through Tor (one day before the fix was released). Much of the database has been deleted.
I could curse that it’s the usual PHP-style bug, and how I wish there was a usable non-PHP bug tracker, but it really boils down to my failure to set up the backup script after migrating to a new server (which was too long ago already). D’oh!
Please help: please write new tickets, for bugs and feature requests. And sorry for the trouble.
ncmpc 0.27 released
ncmpc0.27 has been released.
It fixes connecting to MPD if /var/run/mpd/socket
does not exist. The useless status bar clock has been removed completely.
ncmpc 0.26 released
ncmpc 0.26has been released.
This release fixes GCC 7 warnings, eliminates flickering, adds compatibility with lirc 0.9.4. DSD and floating point formats are displayed properly. The connection to MPD is established asynchronously, i.e. ncmpc stays responsive while waiting for the connect.
libmpdclient 2.11 released
libmpdclient2.11has been released.
It fixes various bugs and adds initial support for new MPD 0.21 protocol features.
MPD 0.20.6 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.6has been released.
It fixes the HTTP redirect headers in the curl
input plugin, stream tags after automatic song change, and a crash bug in the mpcdec
decoder plugin. Two build failures with old compilers/libraries have been fixed as well.
MPD 0.20.5 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.5has been released.
It contains various fixes: two buffer overflows in the httpd
output, a memory leak for malformed ID3 tags, a crash bug in the alsa
mixer.
MPD 0.20.4 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.4has been released.
It fixes a freeze bug in the nfs
input plugin and a few build failures (sndio
/roar
, GCC 4.9, FreeBSD).
MPD 0.20.3 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.3has been released.
It fixes problems with ReplayGain, the proxy
database plugin, and theplaylistadd
command. When playing stereo on a multi-channel-only DAC, the two stereo channels are copied only to front-left and front-right, while the other channels remain silent.
MPD 0.20.2 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.2has been released.
Again, there are various serious bug fixes for old & new bugs. Thealsa
output plugin can now properly play DSD_U32
(previously broken), and initial support for DSD_U16
was added. The recorder
output plugin had a problem with the format_path
setting. A general problem with static noise after song change was fixed. A problem with skipping songs within a CUE sheet has been fixed. The alsa
input plugin has a crash bug fix and a major optimization, fixing buffer overruns.
MPD 0.20.1 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20.1has been released.
The first bug-fix release fixes several serious bugs: two crash bugs in the curl
input plugin, one crash bug in the wavpack
decoder plugin and one crash bug in the volume_normalization
feature.
There are two new features: the alsa
mixer plugin normalizes the displayed value according to human ear perception (with code from alsamixer). The new curl
storage plugin allows using music from a WebDAV share.
MPD 0.20 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20 has been released.
This new major release contains a big number of improvements, for example:
- various protocol extensions
- ID3 and APE tags can be read from remote files (including HTTP/NFS/SMB)
- improved error reporting (both to the log and to the client)
- audio/L16 and WavPack-DSD support
- improved multi-channel support
- DSD_U32 support
- new
soxr
resampler plugin
A more detailed list of changes can be found in thechange log.
MPD 0.19.21 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.21has been released.
It fixes a crash in the ffmpeg
decoder plugin, fixes a unit test failure and adds a systemd
user unit.
MPD 0.19.20 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.20has been released.
It fixes a queue priority artifact, enables a few paranoid systemd
security settings, and contains various fixes for the pluginsffmpeg
, pcm
, sidplay
and winmm
.
MPD 0.19.19 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.19has been released.
It fixes problems with FFmpeg 3.1, non-x86 NetBSD and clang 3.9. Support for WildMidi 0.4 was added. The PulseAudio output can now play back 32 bit, 24 bit and floating point.
mpc 0.28 and ncmpc 0.25 released
mpc 0.28 has been released. It improves the listall
and searchplay
commands, and adds a newpause-if-playing
command. The new environment variable MPC_FORMAT
is used if no other output format is specified.Change log
ncmpc 0.25 has been released. It adds a new %disc%
format and fixes various LyricsWiki problems. Previously missing *.m4
files required by the configure
script have been added to the tarball.Change log
MPD 0.19.18 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.18has been released.
It fixes a memory leak, a build failure with Boost 1.61, a build failure with FFmpeg 3.1. The sidplay
decoder plugin can now be built with libsidplayfp
instead of libsidplay2
.
MPD 0.19.17 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.17has been released.
It fixes several seeking problems, a spurious crash bug, and thereplay_gain_handler "mixer"
setting. With DSD, the “silence” pattern is now 0x69
instead of 0x00
.
MPD 0.19.16 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.16has been released.
It optimizes seeking, fixes one exotic build failure and adds one missing DocBook file to the source tarball.
MPD 0.19.15 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.15has been released.
It adds support for FFmpeg 3.0 and uses FFmpeg as a fallback plugin instead of mad
. The Opus decoder supports bigger metadata packets. Several build failures have been fixed.
MPD 0.19.14 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.14has been released.
This release fixes three buffer overflow bugs, optimizes deletion from the queue, and fixes a build failure with certain C libraries.
MPD 0.19.13 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.13has been released.
It fixes a problem with supplementary groups on glibc 2.19+, ID3 parser problems in AIFF and RIFF files, disappearing duration of remote songs during playback, and adds support for the TAK
codec in the ffmpeg
decoder plugin.
MPD 0.19.12 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.12has been released.
It fixes a build failure on non-Linux, a deprecated syntax in thesystemd
unit, and an assertion failure with malformed UTF-8 tags (only with --enable-debug
).
MPD 0.19.11 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.11has been released.
It fixes a buffer overflow in the ape
tag plugin, a crash in theffmpeg
decoder and encoder plugin, limits the loop count in thegme
decoder and fixes a problem with lagging volume display after enabling/disabling an output.
MPD 0.19.10 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.10has been released.Change log
MPD 0.19.9 and 0.18.23 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.9has been released.
It allows the dsdiff
and dsf
decoders to read larger ID3 tags and fixes loading duplicate tag types from the state file. Thedespotify
plugin has been removed because the underlying third-party library is unmaintained and has been defunct for quite some time. Again, various rare build failures have been fixed.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon0.18.23 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable).Change log
MPD 0.19.8 and 0.18.22 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.8has been released.
It fixes a bug in the curl
input plugin, improves mms
startup, supports larger ID3 tags in dsdiff
and dsf
files and adds support for floating point samples in the ffmpeg
decoder. Several clang 3.6 compiler warnings has been fixed, as well as one build failure on NetBSD.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon0.18.22 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable).Change log
MPD 0.19.7 and 0.18.21 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.7has been released.
It fixes bugs in the embedded CUE sheet parser, the ffmpeg
decoder plugin, the listplaylist
protocol command and a whole bunch of bugs in the NFS client. On the Windows port, a serious crash bug was fixed.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon0.18.21 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable).Change log
MPD 0.19.6 and 0.18.20 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.6has been released.
It fixes a build failure with musl and the ffmpeg
decoder plugin is now compatible with the newFFmpeg version 2.5.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon0.18.20 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable).Change log
MPD 0.19.5 and 0.18.19 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.5has been released.
It fixes crash and deadlock bugs in the plugins nfs
, zzip
,dsdiff
, dsf
and opus. The mp4v2
decoder plugin had to be removed due to a license conflict (MPL 1.1 is not compatible with the GPL).
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon0.18.19 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable).Change log
MPD 0.19.4 and 0.18.18 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.4has been released.
It fixes a crash bug that can occur on malformed file names. Theffmpeg
decoder now supports the Opus codec, and the opus
decoder recognizes more MIME types.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon0.18.18 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable).Change log
MPD 0.19.3 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.3has been released.
It fixes bugs in the upnp
database plugin, the audiofile
decoder and the soxr
resampler. The opus
decoder can now play chained streams.
MPD 0.19.2 and 0.18.17 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.2has been released.
It fixes various bugs: a crash in the faad
plugin, playback of redirected streams and streams with query string, negative replay gain values in the mad
plugin, problems with native DSD playback. It adds support for *.m3u8
and audio/aacp
.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon0.18.17 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable).Change log
MPD 0.19.1 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19.1has been released.
It adds the systemd
socket file that was missing in the 0.19 tarball, fixes bugs in the mms
input plugin and the m3u
playlist plugins.
MPD 0.19 released
Music Player Daemon 0.19 has been released.
There is a large number of improvements and new features. Some of the major ones:
- access NFS or SMB/CIFS servers as
music_directory
(in userspace, without having to mount them) - the
proxy
database plugin forwardsidle
events andupdate
commands - database compression with
gzip
- native DSD playback
- DSD512 and multi-channel DSD support
- new mp3 encoder plugin using
libshine
- new resampler using
libsoxr
- various power consumption and latency optimizations
As usual, a more detailed list of changes can be found in the NEWS
file:
MPD 0.18.16 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.16has been released.
It fixes a DSD breakage due to a typo in the previous release.
MPD 0.18.15 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.15has been released.
It fixes a problem with large command lists, fixes an old breakage of the MixRamp feature, and works around a build failure on NetBSD.
MPD 0.18.14 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.14has been released.
It fixes a crash bug with ffmpeg
/libav
version 11, two more crash bugs related to seeking, and a range parser bug on certain 32 bit architectures (such as ARM).
MPD 0.18.13 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.13has been released.
It fixes several DSD playback bugs, a bug in the periodic state file saver and a bug in the seekcur
protocol command.
MPD 0.18.12 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.12has been released.
It fixes two build failures with the proxy
database plugins and improves stream playback with the decoder plugins audiofile
,dsdiff
, dsf
, faad
and sndfile
. Two improvements to the “random” mode ensure that the first and second song being played are really random.
ncmpc 0.24 released
ncmpc0.24 has been released. It fixes a crash when using the “jump” feature (hotkey “.”).Change log
ncmpc 0.23 released
ncmpc0.23 has been released. The tarball contains the PO files that were missing in the previous release.Change log
mpc 0.26 released
mpc 0.26 has been released. It fixes a crash when adding absolute paths. Theplaylist
command can now show the contents of stored playlists. Thesearch
command supports --format
.
MPD 0.18.11 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.11has been released.
It fixes a race condition on non-Linux operating systems, disturbing the database update and more. The opus
decoder plugin now properly recognizes song durations on high-latency files.
MPD 0.18.10 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.10has been released.
It fixes several minor bugs in the decoder plugins ffmpeg
, gme
andsndfile
. Playback doesn’t get interrupted anymore when the current song gets deleted.
MPD 0.18.9 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.9has been released.
It improves the previous workaround for the Raspberry Pi audio driver bug, eliminating noise during song change. Child processes launched by the “pipe” output plugin no longer ignore signals. Several build failures have been fixed.
MPD on Android
Music Player Daemon is finally being ported to Android! A first preview for the bravehas been uploaded to Google Play.
At this early stage of development, the app is not particularly useful. There is no user interface, the service is not well integrated into the Android operating system, and all it can do is play HTTP streams (MP3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC). Stay tuned for updates!
MPD 0.18.8 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.8has been released.
It improves the Icy metadata parser, adds support for libav
v10_alpha2 API changes and fixes two build failures: one with the Vorbis encoder and another one on Solaris.
MPD 0.18.7 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.7has been released.
It fixes a crash in the pls
playlist plugin and a memory leak in thefaad
decoder plugin. Supplementary groups are only initalized when MPD is started by user root
.
MPD 0.18.6 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.6has been released.
It fixes various minor bugs, one build failure with uClibc and two build failures on Mac OS X.
MPD 0.18.5 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.5has been released.
It fixes more byte order bugs and build failures. The “curl” input plugin now works around a libcurl
bug that was fixed in version 7.32.0. A clipping bug with resampling 24 bit audio was fixed. The “proxy” database plugin has learned to forward the “db_update” attribute.
MPD 0.18.4 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.4has been released.
It fixes a byte order bug in the dsdiff decoder plugin and a few build failures. In particular, it is now possible to build MPD withlibc++.
mpc 0.25 released
mpc 0.25 has been released. It fixes a problem with the insert
command and optimizes the tab completion commands.
MPD 0.18.3 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.3has been released.
A nasty regression in yesterday’s 0.18.2 (revealing an old bug that was invisible for many years) made this release necessary. Sorry for the hiccup.
MPD 0.18.2 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.2has been released.
It fixes more bugs: properly follow HTTP redirects on radio streams, correct song order in PLS playlists, flush output buffer before handling the “close” command, big-endian support.
From now on, git tags and release tarballs will be signed withGPG key C6DB4512.
MPD 0.18.1 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18.1has been released.
It fixes various bugs: one playback with volume normalization enabled, an ALSA endless loop, whitespace problems in the protocol parser and a few networking tweaks.
MPD 0.18 released
Music Player Daemon 0.18 has been released.
Internally, the code base has been rewritten from C99 to C++11, which improves code readability and maintainability.
Support for the Opus codec has been added, both decoder and encoder.
The protocol has been extended to allow reading arbitrary tags (e.g. Vorbis comments). “find” and “search” can be limited to a portion of the filesystem tree. The “volume” command has been re-added.
Library dependencies have been updated. Various obsolete plugins have been removed (e.g. soup, mp4ff, ffado).
Countless small improvements: turn off timer wakeups while idle to reduce battery usage; MPD is no longer unresponsive while waiting for a stream; improved error reporting; and so on.
libmpdclient 2.9 and mpc 0.24 released
libmpdclient2.9has been released. It adds support for the upcoming MPD 0.18 protocol.Change log
mpc 0.24 has been released. It fixes various minor bugs and also adds support for MPD 0.18.Change log
MPD 0.17.6 released
MPD version0.17.6has been released. It fixes an ALSA/USB bug, a modplug build failure and two problems with stored playlists.
MPD 0.17.5 released
MPD version0.17.5has been released. It fixes two protocol bugs and a crash in the mikmod decoder plugin.
libmpdclient 2.8 released
libmpdclient 2.8 has been released. It extends support for song priorities.
MPD 0.17.4 released
MPD version0.17.4has been released. It fixes a few protocol bugs and problems with the ffmpeg/libav decoder plugin.
New website
The MPD website has been relaunched. Wikia has been hosting the MPD website for a few years, but Wikia turned out to be an annoying experience for many visitors. Lacking a real maintainer, the wiki grew into a confusing mess over the years, making it harder and harder to find the answer to a given problem. The goal is now to move helpful information from the old wiki to the user manual(which nobody knew it existed).
The new website is being managed with nanoc(LWN article). If you want to help,clone the git repositoryand send a pull request. The user manual is managed in theMPD git repository.
python-mpd2-0.5.1 released
Version 0.5.1 of python-mpd2supports mpd ranges. Download it from github or install it from pypi
forum re-opened yet again
The previous forum went up in flames, and for a while we had nobody willing to step up and set up a new one. No longer! A fresh new forum is now available: http://forum.musicpd.org/ – the old data is gone, but signing up again takes just a minute or two.
python-mpd2-0.5.0 released
Version 0.5.0 of python-mpd2 lists improvements in support for stickers. Download it from github
Quimup 1.3.0 released
Version 1.3.0 of Quimup has been released. Many new features and fixes (changelog). Downloads are available from sourceforge.
MPD-0.17.3 released
MPD Version 0.17.3 has been released.
MPD-0.17.2 released
MPD Version 0.17.2 has been released.
Guimup 0.3.3 released
Version 0.3.3 of Guimup mainly improves compatibility with xfce4. Downloads are available from sourceforge.
python-mpd2 released
python-mpd2 version 0.4.3 has been released. Some bugs are fixed and it supports the commands of the latest mpd version. Changelog
MPD-0.17 released
MPD Version 0.17 has been released.
Guimup 0.3.2 released
Version 0.3.2 of Guimup is a bugfix release. The source code and amd64/i386 DEB packages are available from sourceforge. See coonsden.com for a full changelog.
MPD update released
MPD version 0.16.8 has been released. Minor bugfixes, most likely the end of the line for the 0.16.x releases.
python-mpd2 released
python-mpd2 version 0.4.0 has been released. python-mpd2 is a backward compatible fork of python-mpd.
ncmpc-0.20 released
ncmpc version 0.20 has been released. Changes are available on the sourceforge page.
MPD, mpc and libmpdclient released
A new release of MPD, mpc and libmpdclient have been released, for the changes see the applicable pages.
Guimup 0.3.1 released
Version 0.3.1 of Guimup is a bugfix release. The source code and amd64/i386 DEB packages are available from sourceforge. See coonsden.com for a full changelog.
Guimup 0.3.0 released
Guimup version 0.3.0 was completely rewritten for Gnome 3 and takes advantage of new MPD 0.16 features. See coonsden.com for a full changelog.
MPD update released
MPD version 0.16.6 has been released. This release fixes win32 building, adds better error messages and other miscellaneous stability bug fixes.
libmpdclient update released
libmpdclient version 2.6 has been released, adding support for song priorities.
MPD 0.16.5 released
MPD version 0.16.5 has been released bringing more stable changes and a systemd file. All users are encouraged to upgrade.
MPD 0.16.4 released
MPD version 0.16.4 has been released bringing many stable changes, all users are urged to upgrade.
Forum reopened
The official mpd forum is once again available, with new tricks in place to prevent a spamfest like last time. So, if you want to talk about mpd or ask (or even answer) questions, you are welcome to join us on the forum.
Latest mpd/ffmpeg issues
Lately a change in ffmpeg introduced crashing issues in mpd. This issue has been fixed in ffmpeg and also mpd now has a fix to handle broken ffmpeg installations, so please update both. If you cannot update for any reason, you can disable ffmpeg in mpd.conf by adding “decoder { plugin “ffmpeg” enabled “no” }”.
ncmpc-0.19 released
ncmpc version 0.19 has been released. This release includes bugfixes and translation updates.