User Reviews and Votes for Music Player Daemon

Summary: Music Player Daemon

Details: Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists. MPD is designed for integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. It is also makes a great desktop music player, especially if your a console junkie, like frontend options, or restart X often.

Period used: 1 Year

Other products used: xmms, noutan, etc...

Submitted by Avuton Olrich on 19-Aug-2004 00:31:35

Submitted by j;lkj on 19-Sep-2004 21:15:53

Pros: Small and fast and in the background

Cons: Can't play CD's or files not in the playlist

Period used: 2003-current

Other products used: ammoraK, Juk, winamp, beep, xmms, realone, countless others..

Submitted by The Xuu on 21-Sep-2004 01:05:15

Summary: sweeeet

Details: love this player, and the many things i use it for. i have been able to set up logging of my tracks to an HTML page so i can share it on my website. also, phpMp is really cool, and i can let people play music they like at parties and such with an easy web interface.

Pros: no bloat, does what it says it does.

Cons: FoxyTunes doesn't support authentication :D

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: XMMS

Submitted by Jon Hermansen on 21-Sep-2004 13:21:56

Summary: very powerful player

Pros: designed for server environment

Cons: limited format support, album art missing

Period used: for about a year

Other products used: foobar, winamp, cplay

Submitted by Ingmar Gebert on 23-Sep-2004 04:09:46

Summary: Music Player Daemon is the way of the future

Details: This thing is amazing. I could be controlling mpd on another computer, say my home theatre PC, and it's just like it's local. The music all plays on the client-side, which makes it perfect for laptops just sshing in and changing the track.

Pros: Server/Client in the spirit of unix, fast and stable, lots of formats

Cons: You must have a client to use it -- what better way than FoxyTunes?

Period used: 10 weeks

Other products used: none

Submitted by Cameron Gorrie on 05-Oct-2004 23:12:21

Summary: almost perfect!

Details: music player daemon is all I've ever wanted - separate out the music playing server from the client that controls it. the only thing I lack is an easy way to play a file not in the mpd database... otherwise its a dream

Pros: server separated from client

Cons: limited to whats in database

Period used: 4 months

Other products used: xmms, winamp, windows media player, lots of others

Submitted by David Fraser on 14-Oct-2004 06:29:34

Summary: fantastic for linux geeks

Details: I turned my old 300 MHz PII into an MP3 jukebox running Gentoo Linux and Music Player Daemon, and hooked it up to my stereo (in the living room) and also some computer speakers in the bedroom. It's great to be able to roam wirelessly through the house with my laptop and control my music from a web interface. I'm interested to see how well FoxyTunes stacks up.

Pros: remote control

Cons: complicated setup

Period used: 1 yr

Other products used: itunes, musicmatch, winamp, realplayer, wmp, xmms

Submitted by Brent Tubbs on 23-Oct-2004 03:36:22

Summary: No GUI Media Player

Details: I love having a player that just sits around. I can be in console or in X and i still have access to my music. And I don't get tempted to click next over and over

Pros: No GUI makes for easy access from anywhere

Cons: Pain to setup

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: foobar2000, xmms, rhythmbox, winamp 2, 3, 5

Submitted by TheCrypto on 27-Oct-2004 01:04:19

Summary: It can be hard to start with

Details: But if you use it, it becomes more powerful than you could possibly imagine! :D Seriously, it is great, especially if you bind everything to keyboard shortcuts. But it makes foxytunes a lot less useful. Foxytunes is great though, thanks!

Submitted by Robert Kaplow on 09-Nov-2004 19:47:40

Details: What I am missing is the possibility to define my own config of this toolbar (I'd make it more simple :P Now playing info, separator, playback buttons,separator, volume scroll, separator, arrow to hide all), except that - its near perfection.

Submitted by ukasz on 15-Nov-2004 07:46:58

Summary: Great

Details: Intuitive idea, goes with the spirit of a good Unix app. Having my Winamp using Windows friends be able to connect to my MPD server would be a real boon though ;)

Pros: Runs as a daemon, not much mem/cpu use, you can choose your GUI, your box becomes a music server

Cons: Responsiveness is a bit low, not many plugins like XMMS

Period used: 2 weeks

Other products used: Winamp, amaroK, Beep Media Player

Submitted by Stephen on 16-Nov-2004 06:41:54

Submitted by mike reed on 20-Nov-2004 21:47:23

Submitted by Helge Egil Seime Pettersen on 29-Nov-2004 09:52:03

Summary: Runs a daemon in the background, controlled thru separate interfaces

Pros: 1337ness :)

Cons: a bit on the user-hateful side

Period used: for a few months

Other products used: all of them

Submitted by Mircea on 03-Dec-2004 10:39:08

Summary: simply the easiest way to get a remote controllable mp3 player

Pros: simple install... it just works...

Cons: database update can take a bit long

Period used: a few weeks

Other products used: many

Submitted by Frank Rodolf on 04-Dec-2004 20:50:20

Summary: Great

Details: Wow, this is fantistic. It works perfect with FoxyTunes. I can use a dozen different programs to control it. If I have to work without a GUI, I can still listen to my music. I can easily program my multimedia keys to work with it. It's freaking awesome!

Pros: lightweight, doesn't require a gui, very customizable

Cons: Doesn't work with Madman yet.

Period used: few weeks

Other products used: VLC, XMMS, Rythmbox, WinAmp Windows Media Player, etc.

Submitted by Dan Jones on 19-Dec-2004 23:36:37

Summary: Once set up, can make life easier

Details: MPD, even though it can be a bit quirky, can be used to create an almost seamless music experience. Most of the people I know run it as a daemon on boot, which begins play even before your computer is fully on, and can be controlled by installing the companion 'mpc' package and mapping keystrokes, buttons, or menu items to it.

Pros: Configurability, seamless integration

Cons: Somewhat quirky, do-it-yourself installation and configuration

Period used: A few months

Other products used: XMMS, mplayer & screen, RhythmBox, etc.

Submitted by Tom on 29-Dec-2004 19:51:12

Submitted by Catherine on 30-Dec-2004 17:58:32

Submitted by gto on 30-Jan-2005 17:51:14

Summary: A very good player that when foxytunes supports it will save me space for another window in my taskbar

Details: Doesnt work with foxytunes at all, and after only a minor version update. Would be great if it did work :)

Pros: Lightweight, saves screen resources

Cons: Not many features, but when your just browsing you dont need them

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: in order of trying: winamp, xmms, noatun, beep-media-player

Submitted by Suicidal Orange on 16-Feb-2005 05:09:34

Summary: Support MPD from windows

Details: I miss support for MPD in the Windows version of FoxyTunes. Please, please, please..

Submitted by Jose A. Reyero on 18-Feb-2005 09:34:38

Summary: Not quite your usual player... no GUI. Or rather lots of GUIs

Details: MPD is just the music player. There are a number of different frontends to it, which make it very very flexible.

Pros: choice of frontend

Period used: 4 months

Other products used: itunes, XMMS, totem, wmp, winamp

Submitted by Jon on 24-Feb-2005 01:49:48

Pros: easily scriptable, network sound, several clients

Cons: no really good client

Period used: 4 months

Other products used: windows media player, winamp, realplayer, noatun, kaffeine, xmms, xine, mplayer

Submitted by Henrik Gebauer on 10-Mar-2005 04:24:34

Other products used: mp3sb jinzorra respyre netjuke ....

Submitted by jomat on 11-Apr-2005 17:08:36

Period used: no other since last spring

Other products used: winamp, itunes

Submitted by Alexander Dahl on 21-Apr-2005 17:46:31

Summary: Great music player

Details: Already submitted this under other, cause I missed it on the list. Just delete that one.

Submitted by Mark Bainter on 05-May-2005 09:11:23

Submitted by uf0un on 21-May-2005 10:56:46

Pros: Many user interfaces - can be controlled via network

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: Winamp, XMMS

Submitted by Diego Essaya on 02-Jun-2005 13:00:57

Summary: Remote mpd control from windows

Details: I run mpd on my linux desktop which outputs to my stereo. I would like to be able to control this from foxytunes on my windows laptop. Thanks.

Submitted by matt on 25-Jun-2005 18:00:20

Pros: remote, as in its on my media center pc, not my desktop. lets my gf and me fight over control of the music without talking.

Cons: no equalizer

Period used: 2 days ;)

Other products used: winamp, xmms, beep, itunes, others

Submitted by Cliff Wells on 28-Jun-2005 00:08:09

Details: waiting for debian to update mpd to 0.12 for icecast streaming :)

Pros: doesnt need gui, never skips

Cons: no m4a

Period used: 1 week

Other products used: xmms, zinf

Submitted by hungerburg on 30-Jun-2005 02:51:25

Summary: failure

Details: couldn't connect to my linux mpd from windows firefox... i didn't even find mpd in the player list, nor an IP address/port to use to connect.

Submitted by boris on 02-Jul-2005 19:28:08

Summary: i like it :)

Details: in my opinion, the best feature is that i can use several different uis.

Pros: it's a daemon :)

Cons: no cue file support

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: xmms, xmms2, beep-media-player, foobar2000, musikcube, winamp, wxmusik, coolplayer, amarok, juk, kaffeine, zinf, rhythmbox

Submitted by Daniel Hofer on 19-Jul-2005 07:56:51

Submitted by A. Frey on 20-Aug-2005 10:08:14

Submitted by Katiska on 09-Sep-2005 16:17:38

Summary: Daemon-based player, many clients or write your own

Details: This is no XMMS, Winamp or Rhythmbox - those players are all self-contained, rather than fragmented like MPD/Music Player Daemon. MPD deals with all the actual hard work - maintaining the database of music and playlists, seeking through songs, crossfading and - of course - playing the actual music. The client's job is to interact with the MPD server and tell it what it should do - update the database, play a different song, stop, pause, play, seek, skip, etc. It's a great player for a low-end jukebox style machine, and I even use it as my primary desktop player - using it inside Foxytunes, my taskbar, a console terminal -- it's a surreal experience if you've had 'mediaplayer = winamp-a-like' engraved in your brain for too long.

Pros: Can write own front end, supports FLAC, MP3, OGG, MOD, IT, S3M, XM; Can be password protected and used for LAN parties...

Cons: Only been built for UNIX-a-likes. Opensource though, so you can try building it for Windows, given plenty of time and windows libraries

Period used: Only about 6 months, feels like forever. I can't remember not using it!

Other products used: XMMS, winamp Linux release, Rhythmbox, Juk, Noatun, mpg123 (!!)

Submitted by Chris on 17-Sep-2005 12:58:45

Summary: Streams music or plays it localy on the server

Details: Music Player Daemon supports lots of audio formats and allows users to play their music from a remote machine or on the server

Pros: Plays music on a server so no pluging in spearkers where you are

Cons: Very little front end support on Win32 platform

Period used: 6 months

Submitted by Nathan Sain on 18-Sep-2005 12:06:17

Submitted by Anonymous on 18-Aug-2004 10:17:15

Summary: The ultimate in flexibility and control!

Submitted by Joe MPD Lover on 05-Oct-2005 11:24:47

Cons: mpd doesn't work in windows

Submitted by r. hijink on 11-Oct-2005 03:33:19

Submitted by Josh on 23-Oct-2005 18:52:17

Summary: Windows support!

Details: Music Player Daemon is a damned good music server for Linux. Windows support for it in FoxyTunes would be superb.

Submitted by Miles Izzo on 26-Oct-2005 03:20:12

Submitted by yod on 05-Nov-2005 01:42:15

Submitted by Augusto on 25-Nov-2005 13:51:54

Submitted by Jan Willies on 29-Nov-2005 12:20:46

Summary: Windows support for linux-based mpd

Details: I'd like to put my word in for being able to control my mpd daemon from windows installs. Thanks!

Submitted by Håvard Dahle on 13-Dec-2005 05:30:50

Other products used: rhythmbox, xmms, beep media player, amarok, muine, quodlibet

Submitted by Kevin Everets on 28-Dec-2005 07:19:05

Submitted by Lumag on 29-Dec-2005 06:30:58

Summary: mpd support in the windows client please

Pros: mpd can run on a remote server.

Period used: 1 month

Submitted by Emm Is on 02-Jan-2006 03:42:14

Submitted by David Panofsky on 04-Jan-2006 13:39:00

Details: I would like support for this player (MPD) in the Windows release of FoxyTunes.

Submitted by Dave Lund on 18-Jan-2006 18:32:30

Summary: Daemon, running in background

Details: It's a player daemon, which runs in the background and can be controlled from anywhere, any applicaction. Would be great if foxytunes could do that too!

Pros: Can be controlled from anywhere

Cons: -

Submitted by MOP on 20-Jan-2006 09:41:50

Summary: Add remote control of mpd from Windows Firefox

Details: I would like to be able to control Music Player Daemon remotely from my Firefox on Windows.

Submitted by Ulf Söderberg on 23-Jan-2006 11:48:11

Summary: A very easy-to-use media player when set up correctly

Pros: Is a music _daemon_, can easily be extended

Period used: About half a year

Other products used: Windows Media Player, Winamp, xmms, rythmbox, beep-media-player, others

Submitted by Martin Stensgård on 26-Jan-2006 11:41:03

Summary: a very good and versatile player

Details: * server-client model * dozens of user interfaces (command line, graphical) * plays all sorts of music files (mp3, ogg, streams) * has a good playlist and files management

Pros: server-client model

Cons: *nix only

Period used: since summer 05

Other products used: xmms, beep-media-player (linux); winamp, qcd (windows)

Submitted by Simon on 30-Jan-2006 06:25:37

Submitted by kuku on 31-Jan-2006 07:44:30

Submitted by no on 05-Feb-2006 05:25:55

Details: FOxyTunes support for MPD on Windows would be greatly appreciated.

Submitted by Jonas Carlsson on 26-Feb-2006 10:37:43

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: a lot...

Submitted by yohann coppel on 04-Mar-2006 03:10:18

Pros: daemon, several UIs (also command line, codable)

Cons: no good UI

Period used: daily

Other products used: xmms, real player, amarok, windows media player, noatune

Submitted by Henrik Gebauer on 10-Mar-2005 04:24:34

Submitted by Uwe Klosa on 25-Mar-2006 08:10:49

Details: could you please support MPD on windows? That would be of great help!

Submitted by robert ivanc on 13-Apr-2006 23:40:28

Summary: control Linux from Windows

Details: With NSLU2 and similar devices, it would be so nice to control a Linux mpd server from a Windows Firefox...

Submitted by Chris Holleman on 15-Apr-2006 22:38:03

Pros: Server/Client interface, scriptability

Cons: Lack of clients

Period used: 1 - 1.5 years.

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media Player, XMMS, iTunes, Amarok, Realplayer, MusicMatch, Sonique, BSplayer

Submitted by Dave Giesler on 16-May-2006 20:43:15

Summary: give this player a chance

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: everything

Submitted by Anders Bondehagen on 31-May-2006 08:20:03

Submitted by xerxas on 19-Jun-2006 03:24:32

Summary: MPD on Win32?

Details: I see no point of constraining MPD to Unix Builds. I can perfectly access it over the Lan. I'd really like to see it available on the Win32 builds of FoxyTunes :)

Submitted by Aldrin Leal on 27-Jun-2006 22:41:57

Summary: MPD will be the best player

Details: Only a view features are missing, like, like a vote system, and more ease mixing capabilities (maybe over mp3id2 tags?)

Pros: ui, Gui, Network, Sound, Speed, Low consume of System resources,

Cons: No voting System, intelligent shuffle via tags

Period used: bmpx

Other products used: amarok, xmms2, noatun, etc.

Submitted by Eddy on 03-Jul-2006 13:01:39

Summary: a daemon for *nix

Details: It is just a backend that plays the files and tracks the database. You need a frontend to control it. This makes it flexable and light.

Pros: Can be used from the command line or in X

Cons: Some file types aren't supported(AAC)

Period used: 1-2 years

Other products used: vlc, xmms, winamp, itunes

Submitted by Tyler on 17-Jul-2006 11:47:29

Submitted by Stefan Monnier on 03-May-2005 13:19:00

Summary: don't wanna miss it

Details: I'm running MPd for about two or three years now and don't wanna miss it. I have it running on the fileserver serving all mp3 files and which stands beside the HiFi. I can control from every PC in the local net and from the server console itself if no other computer is running. From linux clients I use a ssh-tunnel to get foxytunes working with it. Everything is fine :) The one and only thing I miss is foytunes support for windows. :(

Pros: runs on server without X-Server

Cons: Foxytunes doesn't support it under Windows

Period used: since 2003

Other products used: Winamp, iTunes

Submitted by Alexander Dahl on 21-Apr-2005 17:46:31

Details: The best music player. The best feature of mpd is the plethora of clients available to connect to the mpd daemon.

Cons: No windows support to connect to a linux mpd server

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: xmms, bmpx, rhythmbox, amarok, winamp, cplay, mpg123, ogg123

Submitted by jekyll on 22-Sep-2006 12:11:04

Summary: support for unix MPD from Windows client wanted :)

Details: I have a unix based (FreeBSD) Music Player Daemon server, and want to control it from FoxyTunes on windows. I'm sure you've heard this one before!

Submitted by Andrew S on 24-Sep-2006 00:54:22

Submitted by Anonymous on 18-Aug-2004 10:17:15

Summary: just nice music on my stereo

Details: would be really nice to control my remote mpd-server with foxytunes =)

Pros: all easy, reliable

Cons: only for pros

Period used: since years

Other products used: too much

Submitted by mo on 29-Oct-2006 10:53:19

Summary: please support this on windows!

Details: please support this on windows!

Submitted by rob on 06-Nov-2006 06:38:19

Submitted by neesenk on 06-Nov-2006 10:13:04

Details: Need Foxy Tunes on Windows to work with mpd on Linux.

Submitted by John Morton on 22-Nov-2006 07:14:16

Details: Music player daemon on linux server and control from this beautiful application on xp...

Submitted by Saverio on 24-Nov-2006 08:07:11

Details: I'm missing the possibility to control the MPD on a remote machine with FT

Submitted by madsen wikholm on 30-Nov-2006 02:47:31

Pros: can connect from a remote client

Cons: can't edit id3

Submitted by Phil Marle on 01-Dec-2006 18:32:12

Summary: Versatile, good support and low system requirements

Details: Allows good control of controlling server which is hooked up to the stereo. I can use various clients to control the server, currently using: - Remote - Command line - Web (over WiFi using my mobile) - Graphical

Pros: Client/server architechture, plays many the common formats

Cons: cannot seem to get it to stream anything but ogg and mp3 radiostations

Period used: 1.5yr

Other products used: None, may try XMMS2

Submitted by Oliver Fields on 14-Jan-2007 06:08:26

Submitted by Christoph Urbahn on 22-Jan-2007 04:07:33

Submitted by David Morgan on 03-Feb-2007 10:55:09

Summary: Can't access from Windows using FoxyTunes!

Details: MPD is great.. just need to be able to access it from FoxyTunes in Windows.

Submitted by Miles Izzo on 07-Feb-2007 19:39:34

Summary: Perfect

Details: Perfectly satisfies my needs. It's very light on system resources and it never laggs...

Cons: none for me

Period used: 2 weeks

Other products used: xmms, amarok, rhythmbox, vlc, bsplayer, winamp, Light Alloy, RealPlayer

Submitted by tallman on 18-Feb-2007 00:40:46

Pros: independence of playlists from client

Cons: clients are still limited

Period used: one year

Other products used: xmms

Submitted by Tim Vaughan on 19-Feb-2007 21:26:27

Details: Fast and smart player running as a server daemon on background. It can start playing even before you log in. You can choose from various clients that can provide you access to the daemon - console, gtk, qt or PHP, which is my favorite (phpMp2).

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: XMMS, Listen, BeepMediaPlayer

Submitted by saul on 23-Sep-2006 07:35:43

Summary: the best player ever

Period used: 1/2 year

Other products used: RhytmnBox, Listen, XMMS, Beep Media Player

Submitted by horec on 23-Feb-2007 02:08:04

Details: great player running as a daemon

Pros: fast

Cons: can't play cd

Period used: month

Other products used: winamp, realplayer, amarok, bmp, xmms

Submitted by heyman on 23-Feb-2007 02:12:09

Summary: cannot control linux mpd from windows

Submitted by Silviu on 02-Apr-2007 09:24:45

Submitted by Helmut Weber on 05-Apr-2007 00:10:59

Summary: MPD is Great!

Details: Please consider including support for a *remote* MPD player in Windows. I understand that MPD is supported under Linux but it would be great to be able to control a remote MPD server from any browser via FoxyTunes. It should just require a host/port/password configuration section and then use the same commands as local MPD support on Linux? Thanks!

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: Winamp, WMP, MusicMatch

Submitted by Kurt Bishop on 06-Apr-2007 05:47:21

Pros: Client-server structure makes it very flexible; can be used with many different front-ends

Cons: Can't make it play from a link in Firefox

Period used: 18 months

Other products used: XMMS, Amarok, MOC

Submitted by Jerry Walker on 29-Apr-2007 15:13:24

Summary: Command line! Owned!

Pros: 2-4MB RAM usage; command line

Cons: command line

Other products used: rhythmbox

Submitted by Vesso on 04-May-2007 14:47:25

Summary: Unknown

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Pros: Unknown

Cons: Unknown

Period used: Unknown

Other products used: Unknown

Submitted by cfoiwjnn on 20-May-2007 11:41:47

Other products used: xmms, audacity,

Submitted by Lamont Gittens on 21-May-2007 12:13:41

Summary: Linux mpd support under windows client.

Details: Hi, I'd like to see the windows version of foxytunes be able to support controlling a linux mpd server.

Submitted by James Verbunk on 26-May-2007 19:09:35

Pros: it rocks

Other products used: rhythmbox

Submitted by Robbe on 17-Jun-2007 04:31:25