python-mpd

The latest release of python-mpd can be found at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-mpd/.

If you would instead like to use the latest source code, you can grab a copy of the development version from git by running the command:

git clone http://git.thejat.be/python-mpd.git

To install python-mpd from source, simply run the command:

python setup.py install

You can use the —help switch to setup.py for a complete list of commands and their options. See the Installing Python Modules document for more details.

The client library can be used as follows:

client = mpd.MPDClient()           # create client object
client.connect("localhost", 6600)  # connect to localhost:6600
print client.mpd_version           # print the mpd version
print client.cmd("one", 2)         # print result of the command "cmd one 2"
client.close()                     # send the close command
client.disconnect()                # disconnect from the server

A list of supported commands, their arguments (as MPD currently understands them), and the functions used to parse their responses can be found in doc/commands.txt. See MusicPlayerDaemonCommands on the MPD Wiki for more details.

Command lists are also supported using command_list_ok_begin() and command_list_end():

client.command_list_ok_begin()       # start a command list
client.update()                      # insert the update command into the list
client.status()                      # insert the status command into the list
results = client.command_list_end()  # results will be a list with the results

Commands may also return iterators instead of lists if iterate is set to True:

client.iterate = True
for song in client.listallinfo():
    print song["file"]

Extra care must be taken to exhaust the iterator before executing any other commands.

You can contact the author by emailing J. Alexander Treuman <jat@spatialrift.net>. He can also be found idling in #mpd on irc.freenode.net as jat.