Music Player Daemon (MPD) for Debian
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After installation, you will need to populate the MPD database. Update
mpd.conf to point to your music directory, or move/symlink your music into the
directory configured for mpd. Then, request a database update, preferably
through a client such as running "mpc update", or by restarting the mpd
daemon.

To prevent mpd from running as a system service, disable its startup
using the command (as root) "update-rc.d mpd disable". mpd is then
started through the XDG autostart mechanism upon logging into your desktop
environment, provided it can find a valid config file (such as ~/.mpdconf).

In the default /etc/mpd.conf, bind_to_address is set to "localhost" in
order to prevent other (possibly untrusted) hosts from accessing MPD.
If you wish to allow other hosts to access MPD, you must change this
value to an appropriate interface, or comment it out to enable listening
on all network interfaces.

When using ALSA with dmix, you may run into problems sharing the sound card
between the "mpd" user and your own account. A workaround is to use ALSA's
"ipc_key_add_uid" and "ipc_perm" directives. See the ALSA documentation for
instructions on how to add this to your configuration.

Similarly, if you plan to use a JACK output, you might need to make mpd and
jackd run under the same user, since a typical JACK setup doesn't permit
several users to access the sound daemon.
