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author | Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com> | 2008-12-20 19:17:34 -0800 |
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committer | Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com> | 2008-12-20 19:17:34 -0800 |
commit | d97c7d6aaee1db5996cd1d2dbd5f3744b5487ac7 (patch) | |
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Clarify some very messy documentation in the installation.
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@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ Music Player Daemon (MPD) - INSTALL +Introduction +------------ +This document is a very small amount of documentation about what is needed to +install MPD. If more information is desired see wiki at http://mpd.wikia.com. + Dependencies ------------ @@ -28,6 +33,18 @@ ALSA - http://www.alsa-project.org/ The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Recommended audio output if you use Linux. You will need libasound. +FIFO +This is a mostly undocumented, developer plugin to transmit raw data. + +MVP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge_MediaMVP +A network media player. + +OSS - http://www.opensound.com +Open Sound System. + +OSX - http://www.apple.com +Necessary if you are on Mac OSX. + PulseAudio - http://www.pulseaudio.org/ An advanced sound daemon. You will need libpulse. @@ -144,16 +161,14 @@ Run $ mpd <config file> -(if no config file is specified, mpd's looks for ~/.mpdconf then /etc/mpd.conf) - -an example would be: - -$ mpd playlists/.mpdconf +First default is ~/.mpdconf then /etc/mpd.conf. If neither of these exist +a mpd configuration file must be specified at runtime. A -A sample config file is included with the source of MPD, mpdconf.example . +A sample config file is included with the source of MPD, mpdconf.example. -Note: The first time you run mpd, it will "explore" your mp3 directory for -mp3's. +The first time MPD is run it will attempt to discover all music in your +music root, recursively. This can be affected by the symlink options +specified in the example mpd.conf. Using MPD --------- |