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-ncmpc is a curses client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). ncmpc
-connects to a MPD running on a machine on the local network, and
-controls this with an interface inspired by cplay. If ncmpc is used
-with lirc and irpty it can be used to manage playlists and control MPD
-with a remote control.
+ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal
+(using ncurses). Its goal is to provide a keyboard oriented and
+consistent interface to MPD, without wasting resources.
+
+Features:
+
+* full Unicode and wide character support;
+* music database browser, database search, media library;
+* audio output configuration;
+* lyrics;
+* LIRC support;
+* customizable key bindings and colors;
+* tiny memory footprint;
+* playlist editor.
+
+Some optional and important dependencies, detected automatically:
+
+* Sphinx: for generating man pages mpc(1);
+* lirc: for infrared remote support;
+* PCRE: for regular expression support in the "find" command.