Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.15 has been released.
A crash bug after seek failure has been fixed, and two bugs related to
restoring mounts from the state file. The soxr resampler clears its
internal state after manual song change. The Android port no longer
crashes from Android 8’s seccomp filter.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.14 has been released.
It fixes state file corruption in the presence of mount points and a Solaris build failure. Locking in all archive plugins has been optimized to reduce xruns.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.13 has been released.
There are fixes for macOS xruns, ALSA mixer rounding errors, mount points, queue priority problems and Windows build failures.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.12 has been released.
This release contains lots of important bug fixes, e.g.:
cdio_paranoia, ffmpeg, smbclient and local files: xrun
problems fixedcurl: seeking bug fixedvorbis: Tremor audio corruption bug fixedsoxr: freeze bug fixedhttpd: Vorbis stream corruption bug fixedncmpc 0.29 has been released.
It fixes two crash bugs after connection failure, re-adds the “lyrics_plugin_dir” compile-time option and allows detecting libncurses without pkg-config.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.11 has been released.
It fixes problems with Unicode paths, song durations with the ffmpeg
plugin, track numbering with the gme plugin and adds
application/xml support to the curl (WebDAV) storage plugin.
ncmpc 0.28 has been released.
It fixes two crash bugs, repairs password transmission and hides the password from the user interface.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.10 has been released.
This release fixes two crash bugs, AIFF tags. It adds support for MusicBrainz tags to the FFmpeg decoder plugin and adds a macOS mixer plugin.
The Windows builds are back.
libmpdclient 2.13 has been released.
It fixes the “Operation now in progress” bug, and fixes a problem with Meson version 0.38.1 or newer.
libmpdclient 2.12 has been released.
Various new MPD commands have been made available.
libmpdclient now builds with Meson/Ninja instead of autotools.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.9 has been released.
It fixes more random crashes when compiled with clang, and fixes byte order detection on FreeBSD.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.8 has been released.
It fixes a build failure with GCC 4.9 and one on Mac OS X.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.7 has been released.
It fixes random crashes when compiled with a recent clang version due to a new compiler optimization gone wrong. Two more crash bugs were fixed which could occur with implausible audio buffer settings. Directory loop detection on NFS was broken because MPD truncated inode numbers to 32 bit; now MPD uses the full 64 bit.
After the Mantis hack, I have decided to rely less on self-hosted servers and use GitHub instead. For this, I have created the MusicPlayerDaemon organization on GitHub and moved my projects there. These are now the official repositories and the official place to report bugs and feature requests.
Client developers interested in moving a project into the organization shall drop me an email (max+github@musicpd.org).
The old git server (git.musicpd.org) and the mantis server (bugs.musicpd.org) are fading out. Please update your git:// URIs, e.g.:
git remote set-url origin git://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD
A critical Mantis security vulnerability was used to vandalize the MPD bug tracker through Tor (one day before the fix was released). Much of the database has been deleted.
I could curse that it’s the usual PHP-style bug, and how I wish there was a usable non-PHP bug tracker, but it really boils down to my failure to set up the backup script after migrating to a new server (which was too long ago already). D’oh!
Please help: please write new tickets, for bugs and feature requests. And sorry for the trouble.
ncmpc 0.27 has been released.
It fixes connecting to MPD if /var/run/mpd/socket does not exist.
The useless status bar clock has been removed completely.
ncmpc 0.26 has been released.
This release fixes GCC 7 warnings, eliminates flickering, adds compatibility with lirc 0.9.4. DSD and floating point formats are displayed properly. The connection to MPD is established asynchronously, i.e. ncmpc stays responsive while waiting for the connect.
libmpdclient 2.11 has been released.
It fixes various bugs and adds initial support for new MPD 0.21 protocol features.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.6 has been released.
It fixes the HTTP redirect headers in the curl input plugin, stream
tags after automatic song change, and a crash bug in the mpcdec
decoder plugin. Two build failures with old compilers/libraries have
been fixed as well.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.5 has been released.
It contains various fixes: two buffer overflows in the httpd output, a
memory leak for malformed ID3 tags, a crash bug in the alsa mixer.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.4 has been released.
It fixes a freeze bug in the nfs input plugin and a few build
failures (sndio/roar, GCC 4.9, FreeBSD).
Music Player Daemon 0.20.3 has been released.
It fixes problems with ReplayGain, the proxy database plugin, and the
playlistadd command. When playing stereo on a multi-channel-only
DAC, the two stereo channels are copied only to front-left and
front-right, while the other channels remain silent.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.2 has been released.
Again, there are various serious bug fixes for old & new bugs. The
alsa output plugin can now properly play DSD_U32 (previously
broken), and initial support for DSD_U16 was added. The recorder
output plugin had a problem with the format_path setting. A general
problem with static noise after song change was fixed. A problem with
skipping songs within a CUE sheet has been fixed. The alsa input
plugin has a crash bug fix and a major optimization, fixing buffer
overruns.
Music Player Daemon 0.20.1 has been released.
The first bug-fix release fixes several serious bugs: two crash bugs
in the curl input plugin, one crash bug in the wavpack decoder
plugin and one crash bug in the volume_normalization feature.
There are two new features: the alsa mixer plugin normalizes the
displayed value according to human ear perception (with code from
alsamixer). The new curl storage plugin allows using music from a
WebDAV share.
Music Player Daemon 0.20 has been released.
This new major release contains a big number of improvements, for example:
soxr resampler pluginA more detailed list of changes can be found in the change log.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.21 has been released.
It fixes a crash in the ffmpeg decoder plugin, fixes a unit test
failure and adds a systemd user unit.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.20 has been released.
It fixes a queue priority artifact, enables a few paranoid systemd
security settings, and contains various fixes for the plugins
ffmpeg, pcm, sidplay and winmm.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.19 has been released.
It fixes problems with FFmpeg 3.1, non-x86 NetBSD and clang 3.9. Support for WildMidi 0.4 was added. The PulseAudio output can now play back 32 bit, 24 bit and floating point.
mpc 0.28 has
been released.
It improves the listall and searchplay commands, and adds a new
pause-if-playing command. The new environment variable MPC_FORMAT
is used if no other output format is specified.
Change log
ncmpc 0.25 has
been released.
It adds a new %disc% format and fixes various LyricsWiki problems.
Previously missing *.m4 files required by the configure script
have been added to the tarball.
Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.18 has been released.
It fixes a memory leak, a build failure with Boost 1.61, a build
failure with FFmpeg 3.1. The sidplay decoder plugin can now be
built with libsidplayfp instead of libsidplay2.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.17 has been released.
It fixes several seeking problems, a spurious crash bug, and the
replay_gain_handler "mixer" setting. With DSD, the “silence”
pattern is now 0x69 instead of 0x00.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.16 has been released.
It optimizes seeking, fixes one exotic build failure and adds one missing DocBook file to the source tarball.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.15 has been released.
It adds support for FFmpeg 3.0 and uses FFmpeg as a fallback plugin
instead of mad. The Opus decoder supports bigger metadata packets.
Several build failures have been fixed.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.14 has been released.
This release fixes three buffer overflow bugs, optimizes deletion from the queue, and fixes a build failure with certain C libraries.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.13 has been released.
It fixes a problem with supplementary groups on glibc 2.19+, ID3
parser problems in AIFF and RIFF files, disappearing duration of
remote songs during playback, and adds support for the TAK codec in
the ffmpeg decoder plugin.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.12 has been released.
It fixes a build failure on non-Linux, a deprecated syntax in the
systemd unit, and an assertion failure with malformed UTF-8 tags
(only with --enable-debug).
Music Player Daemon 0.19.11 has been released.
It fixes a buffer overflow in the ape tag plugin, a crash in the
ffmpeg decoder and encoder plugin, limits the loop count in the
gme decoder and fixes a problem with lagging volume display after
enabling/disabling an output.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.10 has been released. Change log
mpc 0.27 has been released. Change log
libmpdclient 2.10 has been released. Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.9 has been released.
It allows the dsdiff and dsf decoders to read larger ID3 tags and
fixes loading duplicate tag types from the state file. The
despotify plugin has been removed because the underlying third-party
library is unmaintained and has been defunct for quite some time.
Again, various rare build failures have been fixed.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.23 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.8 has been released.
It fixes a bug in the curl input plugin, improves mms startup,
supports larger ID3 tags in dsdiff and dsf files and adds support
for floating point samples in the ffmpeg decoder. Several clang 3.6
compiler warnings has been fixed, as well as one build failure on
NetBSD.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.22 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.7 has been released.
It fixes bugs in the embedded CUE sheet parser, the ffmpeg decoder
plugin, the listplaylist protocol command and a whole bunch of bugs
in the NFS client. On the Windows port, a serious crash bug was
fixed.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.21 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.6 has been released.
It fixes a build failure with musl and
the ffmpeg decoder plugin is now compatible with the new
FFmpeg version 2.5.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.20 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.5 has been released.
It fixes crash and deadlock bugs in the plugins nfs, zzip,
dsdiff, dsf and opus. The mp4v2 decoder plugin had to be
removed due to a license conflict (MPL 1.1 is not compatible with the
GPL).
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.19 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.4 has been released.
It fixes a crash bug that can occur on malformed file names. The
ffmpeg decoder now supports the Opus codec, and the opus decoder
recognizes more MIME types.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.18 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.3 has been released.
It fixes bugs in the upnp database plugin, the audiofile decoder
and the soxr resampler. The opus decoder can now play chained
streams.
Music Player Daemon 0.19.2 has been released.
It fixes various bugs: a crash in the faad plugin, playback of
redirected streams and streams with query string, negative replay gain
values in the mad plugin, problems with native DSD playback. It
adds support for *.m3u8 and audio/aacp.
For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.17 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log
Music Player Daemon 0.19.1 has been released.
It adds the systemd socket file that was missing in the 0.19
tarball, fixes bugs in the mms input plugin and the m3u playlist
plugins.
Music Player Daemon 0.19 has been released.
There is a large number of improvements and new features. Some of the major ones:
music_directory (in userspace,
without having to mount them)proxy database plugin forwards idle events and update
commandsgziplibshinelibsoxrAs usual, a more detailed list of changes can be found in the NEWS
file:
Music Player Daemon 0.18.16 has been released.
It fixes a DSD breakage due to a typo in the previous release.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.15 has been released.
It fixes a problem with large command lists, fixes an old breakage of the MixRamp feature, and works around a build failure on NetBSD.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.14 has been released.
It fixes a crash bug with ffmpeg/libav version 11, two more crash
bugs related to seeking, and a range parser bug on certain 32 bit
architectures (such as ARM).
Music Player Daemon 0.18.13 has been released.
It fixes several DSD playback bugs, a bug in the periodic state file
saver and a bug in the seekcur protocol command.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.12 has been released.
It fixes two build failures with the proxy database plugins and
improves stream playback with the decoder plugins audiofile,
dsdiff, dsf, faad and sndfile. Two improvements to the
“random” mode ensure that the first and second song being played are
really random.
ncmpc 0.24 has been released. It fixes a crash when using the “jump” feature (hotkey “.”). Change log
ncmpc 0.23 has been released. The tarball contains the PO files that were missing in the previous release. Change log
ncmpc 0.22 has been released. Change log
mpc 0.26 has
been released. It fixes a crash when adding absolute paths. The
playlist command can now show the contents of stored playlists. The
search command supports --format.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.11 has been released.
It fixes a race condition on non-Linux operating systems, disturbing
the database update and more. The opus decoder plugin now properly
recognizes song durations on high-latency files.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.10 has been released.
It fixes several minor bugs in the decoder plugins ffmpeg, gme and
sndfile. Playback doesn’t get interrupted anymore when the current
song gets deleted.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.9 has been released.
It improves the previous workaround for the Raspberry Pi audio driver bug, eliminating noise during song change. Child processes launched by the “pipe” output plugin no longer ignore signals. Several build failures have been fixed.
Music Player Daemon is finally being ported to Android! A first preview for the brave has been uploaded to Google Play.
At this early stage of development, the app is not particularly useful. There is no user interface, the service is not well integrated into the Android operating system, and all it can do is play HTTP streams (MP3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC). Stay tuned for updates!
Music Player Daemon 0.18.8 has been released.
It improves the Icy metadata parser, adds support for libav
v10_alpha2 API changes and fixes two build failures: one with the
Vorbis encoder and another one on Solaris.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.7 has been released.
It fixes a crash in the pls playlist plugin and a memory leak in the
faad decoder plugin. Supplementary groups are only initalized when
MPD is started by user root.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.6 has been released.
It fixes various minor bugs, one build failure with uClibc and two build failures on Mac OS X.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.5 has been released.
It fixes more byte order bugs and build failures. The “curl” input
plugin now works around a libcurl bug that was fixed in
version 7.32.0. A clipping bug with resampling 24 bit audio was
fixed. The “proxy” database plugin has learned to forward the
“db_update” attribute.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.4 has been released.
It fixes a byte order bug in the dsdiff decoder plugin and a few build failures. In particular, it is now possible to build MPD with libc++.
mpc 0.25 has
been released. It fixes a problem with the insert command and
optimizes the tab completion commands.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.3 has been released.
A nasty regression in yesterday’s 0.18.2 (revealing an old bug that was invisible for many years) made this release necessary. Sorry for the hiccup.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.2 has been released.
It fixes more bugs: properly follow HTTP redirects on radio streams, correct song order in PLS playlists, flush output buffer before handling the “close” command, big-endian support.
From now on, git tags and release tarballs will be signed with
GPG key C6DB4512.
Music Player Daemon 0.18.1 has been released.
It fixes various bugs: one playback with volume normalization enabled, an ALSA endless loop, whitespace problems in the protocol parser and a few networking tweaks.
Music Player Daemon 0.18 has been released.
Internally, the code base has been rewritten from C99 to C++11, which improves code readability and maintainability.
Support for the Opus codec has been added, both decoder and encoder.
The protocol has been extended to allow reading arbitrary tags (e.g. Vorbis comments). “find” and “search” can be limited to a portion of the filesystem tree. The “volume” command has been re-added.
Library dependencies have been updated. Various obsolete plugins have been removed (e.g. soup, mp4ff, ffado).
Countless small improvements: turn off timer wakeups while idle to reduce battery usage; MPD is no longer unresponsive while waiting for a stream; improved error reporting; and so on.
libmpdclient 2.9 has been released. It adds support for the upcoming MPD 0.18 protocol. Change log
mpc 0.24 has been released. It fixes various minor bugs and also adds support for MPD 0.18. Change log
MPD version 0.17.6 has been released. It fixes an ALSA/USB bug, a modplug build failure and two problems with stored playlists.
MPD version 0.17.5 has been released. It fixes two protocol bugs and a crash in the mikmod decoder plugin.
ncmpc 0.21 has been released. Change log
mpc 0.23 has been released. Change log
libmpdclient 2.8 has been released. It extends support for song priorities.
MPD version 0.17.4 has been released. It fixes a few protocol bugs and problems with the ffmpeg/libav decoder plugin.
The MPD website has been relaunched. Wikia has been hosting the MPD website for a few years, but Wikia turned out to be an annoying experience for many visitors. Lacking a real maintainer, the wiki grew into a confusing mess over the years, making it harder and harder to find the answer to a given problem. The goal is now to move helpful information from the old wiki to the user manual (which nobody knew it existed).
The new website is being managed with nanoc (LWN article). If you want to help, clone the git repository and send a pull request. The user manual is managed in the MPD git repository.
Version 0.5.1 of python-mpd2 supports mpd ranges. Download it from github or install it from pypi
The previous forum went up in flames, and for a while we had nobody willing to step up and set up a new one. No longer! A fresh new forum is now available: http://forum.musicpd.org/ – the old data is gone, but signing up again takes just a minute or two.
Version 0.5.0 of python-mpd2 lists improvements in support for stickers. Download it from github
Version 1.3.0 of Quimup has been released. Many new features and fixes (changelog). Downloads are available from sourceforge.
Version 0.3.3 of Guimup mainly improves compatibility with xfce4. Downloads are available from sourceforge.
python-mpd2 version 0.4.3 has been released. Some bugs are fixed and it supports the commands of the latest mpd version. Changelog
Version 0.3.2 of Guimup is a bugfix release. The source code and amd64/i386 DEB packages are available from sourceforge. See coonsden.com for a full changelog.
MPD version 0.16.8 has been released. Minor bugfixes, most likely the end of the line for the 0.16.x releases.
python-mpd2 version 0.4.0 has been released. python-mpd2 is a backward compatible fork of python-mpd.
ncmpc version 0.20 has been released. Changes are available on the sourceforge page.
A new release of MPD, mpc and libmpdclient have been released, for the changes see the applicable pages.
Version 0.3.1 of Guimup is a bugfix release. The source code and amd64/i386 DEB packages are available from sourceforge. See coonsden.com for a full changelog.
Guimup version 0.3.0 was completely rewritten for Gnome 3 and takes advantage of new MPD 0.16 features. See coonsden.com for a full changelog.
MPD version 0.16.6 has been released. This release fixes win32 building, adds better error messages and other miscellaneous stability bug fixes.
libmpdclient version 2.6 has been released, adding support for song priorities.
MPD version 0.16.5 has been released bringing more stable changes and a systemd file. All users are encouraged to upgrade.
MPD version 0.16.4 win32 binary has been released.
MPD version 0.16.4 has been released bringing many stable changes, all users are urged to upgrade.
The official mpd forum is once again available, with new tricks in place to prevent a spamfest like last time. So, if you want to talk about mpd or ask (or even answer) questions, you are welcome to join us on the forum.
Lately a change in ffmpeg introduced crashing issues in mpd. This issue has been fixed in ffmpeg and also mpd now has a fix to handle broken ffmpeg installations, so please update both. If you cannot update for any reason, you can disable ffmpeg in mpd.conf by adding “decoder { plugin “ffmpeg” enabled “no” }”.
ncmpc version 0.19 has been released. This release includes bugfixes and translation updates.
