macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mpdlocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install mpdMacPorts ports tree · audio/mpd/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install mpd with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, zypper
Music Player Daemon. Version 0.24.12 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add mpdAlpine Linux edge package indexes · mpd · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install mpdDebian stable package indexes · mpd · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install mpdFedora Rawhide package metadata · mpd · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mpdnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mp/mpd/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S mpdArch Linux sync databases · mpd · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install mpdopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mpd · source: download.opensuse.org
Windows
Chocolateyverified · 92%
choco install mpdChocolatey community package catalog · mpd · source: community.chocolatey.org
Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/mpdScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/mpd.json · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Music Player Daemon
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mpd
history
Project history and usage
Music Player Daemon is a free software music server that appeared in 2003 and is associated with Max Kellermann and The Music Player Daemon Project. The project describes MPD as a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music, controlled through its network protocol and extended through plugins and libraries for many audio formats. The project AUTHORS file credits a broad contributor base around the daemon.
Project history
MPD's defining technical milestone is its separation of playback from control. The daemon runs in the background, maintains a music database and playlist, and lets separate clients manipulate playback, browse the database, or automate it over the protocol. That model made it attractive for headless machines, remote control, hotkey scripts, terminal front ends, web clients, and embedded audio setups. The MPD documentation presents mpc as the basic CLI client, while the wider ecosystem includes richer terminal, graphical, mobile, and web clients.
Adoption history
Adoption spread beyond hobbyist Unix desktops into commercial audio hardware. The MPD project maintains a list of commercial products known to use MPD as a backend and frames that adoption through the GPL obligations attached to shipping modified GPL components. In package managers, MPD is the central server package that related packages orbit around: mpc controls it, mpdscribble and mpdas listen to its playback state for scrobbling, and client libraries expose the protocol to other programs.
How it is used
In practice, users configure mpd.conf, point MPD at a music directory or streams, choose audio outputs, and control it from clients. Its niche is not an all-in-one player interface, but a long-running playback service for people who want the player decoupled from the interface.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon
- https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD
- https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/master/AUTHORS
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/master/NEWS
- https://www.musicpd.org/
- https://www.musicpd.org/commercial.html
security posture
Risk level: orange
formula declares a Homebrew service.
Risk classifier
orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure
Why
- formula declares a Homebrew service
Signals
- metadata:service
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Formula metadata declares a service or daemon block.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 26 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 4 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf/etc/mpd.conf
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf/etc/mpd.conf
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mpd | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.24.12
manager updated2026-06-22
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.24.12
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mpd |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.24.12 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mpd |
| Homepage | https://www.musicpd.org/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD |
| Upstream docs | https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Source archive | https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/archive/refs/tags/v0.24.12.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-06-22T14:05:32-07:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | chromaprint, faad2, ffmpeg, flac, fluid-synth, fmt, game-music-emu, icu4c@78, lame, libao, libid3tag, libmikmod, libmpdclient, libnfs, libnpupnp, libogg, libsamplerate, libshout, libsndfile, libsoxr, libvorbis, mpg123, opus, pcre2, sqlite, wavpack |
| Build dependencies | meson, ninja, nlohmann-json, pkgconf |
| Uses from macOS | bzip2, curl, expat |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | declared |
| Caveats | MPD requires a config file to start. Please copy it from $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/mpd/mpd.conf into one of these paths: - ~/.mpd/mpd.conf - ~/.mpdconf and tailor it to your needs. |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | mpd |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
mpd 0.24.4-1
Music Player Daemon
sudo apt install mpd- Section: sound
- Architecture: amd64
- 32 dependencies
- 4 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
Nix95%
mpd
nix profile install nixpkgs#mpd- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
Ubuntu apt95%
mpd 0.23.14-2build5
Music Player Daemon
sudo apt install mpd- Section: universe/sound
- Architecture: amd64
- 32 dependencies
- 4 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
apk95%
mpd 0.24.12-r0
Music daemon that plays MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis files and Audio CDs
sudo apk add mpd- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mpd
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
apk95%
mpd-dbg 0.24.12-r0
Music daemon that plays MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis files and Audio CDs (debug symbols)
sudo apk add mpd-dbg- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mpd
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
apk95%
mpd-doc 0.24.12-r0
Music daemon that plays MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis files and Audio CDs (documentation)
sudo apk add mpd-doc- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mpd
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
apk95%
mpd-openrc 0.24.12-r0
Music daemon that plays MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis files and Audio CDs (OpenRC init scripts)
sudo apk add mpd-openrc- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mpd
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
dnf95%
mpd 0.24.12-2.fc45
Music player daemon
sudo dnf install mpd- License: GPL-2.0-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause-Views
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mpd
- 32 dependencies
- 5 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
pacman95%
mpd 0.24.12-1
Flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music
sudo pacman -S mpd- License: BSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- 32 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
zypper95%
mpd 0.24.10-1.1
Music Player Daemon
sudo zypper install mpd- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mpd
- 32 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
zypper95%
mpd-doc 0.24.10-1.1
Additional Package Documentation
sudo zypper install mpd-doc- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: mpd
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
MacPorts95%
mpd
sudo port install mpd- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
Chocolatey95%
mpd
choco install mpd- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
Scoop95%
main/mpd
scoop install main/mpd- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mpd
source trail
Generated from repository data
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment