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authorAvuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>2008-12-20 19:17:34 -0800
committerAvuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>2008-12-20 19:17:34 -0800
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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
---------