Clients

MPD is designed around a client/server architecture, where the clients and server (MPD is the server) interact over a network. Thus, running MPD is only half of the equation. To use MPD, you need to install a MPD client (aka MPD interface).

This is an (incomplete) list of free and open source MPD clients.

Command-line Clients

mpc - a solid, lightweight, simple mpd client, written in C.

ps-mpd an MPD client as a Powershell (v7+) module, allowing programmatic, structured access to songs, albums and artists as well as playback controls.

Console Clients

ncmpc - A curses client written in C++.

ncmpcpp - A curses client written in C++ tailored after ncmpc.

pms - A console client written in Go with vi-like interface.

vimpc - A curses client with vi-like key bindings.

pimpd2 - Feature-packed cli client with interactive shell and regex queries.

nncmpp - A hybrid curses/X11 client inspired by Sonata.

mmtc - A minimal mpd terminal client

mpq - A minimal client that focuses on the mpd queue

inori - Client with a folding library view, queue interface, and effective fuzzy searching

MAENMPC - Experimental MPD client with stars-based ratings, play counts and radio-inspired playlist generation

Utility clients

MPD_sima - A non-interactive autoqueue client. It will queue new tracks following last.fm similar artists suggestions.

mpd-ynca - A non-interactive client to control Yamaha AV receivers with YNCA (network control) support.

bmp - Best music parts tracker for MPD

mpDris2 - MPRIS 2 support, for media keys, notifications, and other system music player integrations.

BGM-MPD - Play music with gaps between tracks, in the style of ambient video game background music

Web Clients

netjukebox the flexible media share - netjukebox is a web-based media jukebox for MPD, VideoLAN and Winamp/httpQ.

MPD.FM - A mobile-ready web client focussed on playing internet radio stations

PiFi Radio - A minimalist web client to listen to radio (archived).

RompЯ - A mobile-ready and desktop web client

cyp - A responsive web client based on ws2mpd with Youtube-dl integration

ympd - a web GUI written in C, using websockets and bootstrap.js

myMPD - An evolution of ympd, with minimal resource usage and dynamic playlist integration

ampd - A modern and mobile-friendly web UI using Spring Boot, Angular and websockets.

audioloader - A responsive web client with special focus on listening full albums.

cryMPD - Completed MPD Web client based on Crystal.

Sola MPD - A web based client focused on usability with flexible browsing and advanced search.

Retrotube - A web based application with a user interface purposely designed to highlight albums covers.

phpMp2 - A rather old web-based client for MPD, written in PHP as a replacement for phpMp.

Graphical Clients

Cantata - A Qt client.

CoverGrid - A client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD), focusing on albums instead of single tracks

MMC4W - A tiny Windows client built with Tkinter. Minimal yet capable. Supports embedded art.

MPC Bar - A simple client for the macOS menu bar

MPDCtrl - A client app for Windows desktop.

Persephone - A modern, native client for macOS

Plattenalbum - A small GTK4/libadwaita MPD client written in python

Quimup - QUIMUP is a client for the music player daemon (MPD) written in C++ and QT3 with focus on mouse handling and drag and drop.

Skympc - Yet another QT(5) Client

Stylophone - A native client for Windows and Xbox; Also available on iOS!

Xfce4-mpc-plugin - Plugin for Xfce4 Panel

Xfmpc - A graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint

Ymuse - Easy, functional, and snappy GTK client for Music Player Daemon (MPD) written in Go.

swmpc - A native client for macOS, focused on beauty and simplicity, written in SwiftUI.

Android

M.A.L.P. - A mpd client for Android

MPDroid - A modern MPD Client for Android

Wear OS

MPC Wear - A MPD Client for Wear OS

iOS

MaximumMPD - A MPD client for iOS

Shinobu - Modern and native client for iOS (iPhone / iPad)

Stylophone - A modern, native client for iOS/iPadOS; Also available on Windows!

Non-interactive Clients

mpdscribble - Last.fm scrobbler

Voice Clients

alexa-mpd-skill - A simple Alexa skill for controlling MPD

Unmaintained Clients

ario - Another GTK based client.

gmpc(Gnome Music Player Client) - A fully featured client.

QMPDClient - Qt4 based mpd client, originally developed by Håvard Tautra Knutsen. Set of patches developed by community was then called “QMPDClient-ne”. Now it became mainline

Sonata - Client, now ported to Gtk3. At the writing time - more recent, compared to some other gtk clients.

There are many more clients. Please help and add them to this list.