💻 Music Player Daemon (MPD)

Includes some instructions to listen to Commodore 64 .sid files

• mpd-sidplay

• mpc

• DeaDBeeF (optional for .sid playlist creation)

• Debian for .sid songlengths

  Easier listening experience

• mkdir ~/.config/mpd

• cp /usr/share/doc/mpd/mpdconf.example ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf

• sudo gpasswd -a mpd $USER

• sudo chmod 710 /home/$USER

music_directory       "/home/user/Music"
user                 "user" #Without systemd
group                 "user" #Without systemd
bind_to_address        "/home/user/.config/mpd/mpd.socket"
pid_file              "/home/user/.config/mpd/pid"
db_file               "/home/user/.config/mpd/db" # MPD will create this..
state_file            "/home/user/.config/mpd/state"
playlist_directory    "/home/user/.config/mpd/playlist"
log_file              "/home/user/.config/mpd/mpd.log"
sticker_file          "/home/user/.config/mpd/sticker.sql" # MPD will create this..
restore_paused        "yes"
auto_update           "yes"

• tri -S mpd-sidplay

  • Add to mpd.conf

        decoder {
           plugin "sidplay"
           songLength_database "/dir/file.txt or /dir/file.md5"
           default_songlength "seconds (180)"
           filter "true"                                                                                         
        }
    

• sudo systemctl disable mpd

• sudo pkill mpd

• mpd /home/user/.config/mpd/mpd.conf

• DeaDBeeF > File > New Playlist > File > Add Folders > File > Save Playlist (m3u)

  DeaDBeeF music player compiled for Debian is bundled with .sid support

• mpc -h /home/user/.config/mpd/mpd.socket load /dir/playlist.m3u

• mpc -h /home/user/.config/mpd/mpd.socket update

• Make sure port is set (default)

• bind_to_address as well

• apti ncmpcpp

• ncmpcpp

  I think this was to load music from a folder? I haven’t used NCMPCPP since ~2018

  • TAB

  • SPACE to include directory

  • TAB You have songs

• Music Player Daemon (MPD)

• NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) (NCMPCPP)

• DeaDBeeF: Modular cross-platform audio player

• High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC)

  Community created .sid tunes from the 1980s to 2020s