mpd
★ 2.8kA self-hosted alternative to Spotify
About
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a background music server designed for playing and managing audio collections. It stores information about the available music library, serves playback through the host...
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Features
- music playback
- music library indexing
- search and retrieval
- remote player control
- playlist management
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 10, 2026
- Created
- Feb 16, 2012
- Install Methods
- source
- Requirements
- server's audio device
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- C++
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- Deployment
Deployment: no container deployment found
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