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+mpd (Music Player Daemon)
+
Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3,
-Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists.
-MPD is designed for integrating a computer into a stereo system that
-provides control for music playback over a local network. It also makes
-a great desktop music player, especially if you are a console junkie,
-like frontend options, or restart X often.
+Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, MIDI, and wave files) and managing
+playlists. MPD is designed for integrating a computer into a stereo
+system that provides control for music playback over a local network. It
+also makes a great desktop music player, especially if you are a console
+junkie, like frontend options, or restart X often.
Some optional and important dependencies, detected automatically:
-* ffmpeg: is recommended for support a wide audio files variety
-* libshout: this enables the shoutcast streaming output
-* libmms: used for play mms:// and mmsh:// type network streams
-* id3lib: add support for edit ID3 tags
-* avahi: add support for discover services on network
+* libshout: enables shoutcast streaming output
+* libmms: used for playing mms:// and mmsh:// type network streams
+* avahi: add support for discovering services on network
* yajl: add support for open soundcloud.com streams
+* Sphinx: used to generate man pages for mpd(1) and mpd.conf(5)
-Other optional dependencies:
-libmpdclient, musepack-tools, lame, faad2, fluidsynth, libsidplay2,
-twolame, libnfs and jack.
-
-You can enable this optional feature:
-ZZIPLIB=yes|no (default: no), enables open zip files, requires zziplib
+Other optional dependencies, detected automatically: libmpdclient,
+musepack-tools, faad2, libsidplay2, twolame, libnfs, jack, zziplib.
-NOTE: Be sure to edit the config file (/etc/mpd.conf or ~/mpd.conf)
+NOTE: Be sure to edit the config file (/etc/mpd.conf or ~/mpd.conf)
before running the daemon.