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@@ -1,43 +1,66 @@ Music Player Daemon (MPD) - INSTALL -Requirements ------------- +Optional Output Dependencies +---------------------------- -libao - http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp -(This comes with most/all distributions. Make sure you have both -the ao libs and development packages for your distribution installed. -For Red Hat 8.0, the necessary packages are: libao and libao-devel) +You will need at least one of these to compile MPD. -zlib - http://www.gzip.org/zlib -(This comes with all distributions. Make sure you have bot the zlib libs -and development packages for your distribution installed. For Red hat, -the necessary packages are: zlib and zlib-devel) +Most of these are available as packages on major distributions. Be sure to +install both the library package as well as the development package. -Optional --------- +AO - http://www.xiph.org/ao/ +A portable library that abstracts many audio output types as one API. Should +be used only if there is no native plugin available or if the native plugin +doesn't work. You will need libao. + +ALSA - http://www.alsa-project.org/ +The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Recommended audio output if you use +Linux. You will need libasound. + +PulseAudio - http://www.pulseaudio.org/ +An advanced sound daemon. You will need libpulse. + +libshout - http://www.icecast.org/ +For streaming to an Icecast or Shoutcast server. + +Optional Input Dependencies +--------------------------- + +You will need at least one of these to compile MPD. + +Most of these are available as packages on major distributions. Be sure to +install both the library package as well as the development package. + +MAD - http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ +For MP3 support. You will need libmad, and optionally libid3tag if you want +ID3 tag support. Ogg Vorbis - http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ -(This comes with most/all distributions. Make sure you have both the -ogg and vorbis libs as well as the development packages for your -distribution installed. For Red Hat 8.0, the necessary packages are: -libogg, libogg-devel, libvorbis, and libvorbis-devel). +For Ogg Vorbis support. You will need libogg and libvorbis. + +FLAC - http://flac.sourceforge.net/ +For FLAC support. You will need version 1.1.0 or higher of libflac. -Flac - http://flac.sf.net -For Flac support, you need Flac 1.1.0 or greater. +OggFLAC - http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ and http://flac.sourceforge.net/ +For OggFLAC support. You will need liboggflac, which can be built from the +FLAC sources if libogg is already installed. -FAAD2 - http://faac.sf.net -For MP4/AAC support. +Audio File - http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/ +For WAVE, AIFF, and AU support. You will need libaudiofile. -Audiofile - http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/ -For wave, aiff, and au support. +FAAD2 - http://www.audiocoding.com/ +For MP4/AAC support. You will need libmp4ff. -libmikmod - http://mikmod.raphnet.net/ -For Mod support. +libmpcdec - http://www.musepack.net/ +For Musepack support. + +MikMod - http://mikmod.raphnet.net/ +For MOD support. You will need libmikmod. Download -------- -Get the latest release from of MPD from http://www.musicpd.org +Get the latest release from of MPD from <http://www.musicpd.org/>. Compile ------- @@ -46,6 +69,10 @@ Compile $ tar zxvf mpd-x.x.x.tar.gz +or + +$ tar jxvf mpd-x.x.x.tar.bz2 + 2) change to directory created $ cd mpd-x.x.x @@ -68,24 +95,6 @@ Run --- 1) run mpd: -<port>: port number daemon listens on (if running as a user, this should be - greater than 1024) -<mp3 directory>: directory containing mp3's -<playlist directory>: directory where playlists will be stored (and .mpddb will - be placed) -<mpd log>: log file for mpd -<mpd err>: error log file for mpd - -$ mpd <port> <mp3 directory> <playlist directory> <mpd log> <mpd err> - -example where mpd executable is in mpd-x.x.x directory: -$ mpd-x.x.x/mpd 6600 mp3 playlists mpd.log mpd.err - -Note: The first time you run mpd, it will "explore" your mp3 directory for -mp3's. - -Also, mpd can alternatively use config file. In this case, -run mpd like this: $ mpd <config file> @@ -97,12 +106,14 @@ $ mpd playlists/.mpdconf 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. + Using MPD --------- -You can download a web interface (phpMp) to MPD at -http://www.musicpd.org . +You can download a web interface (phpMp) to MPD at <http://www.musicpd.org/>. -Also, several other clients can be found for MPD at http://www.musicpd.org . +Also, several other clients can be found for MPD at <http://www.musicpd.org/>. MPD can be interfaced directly using telnet (see COMMANDS, if you are brave). |