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 also makes a great desktop music player, especially if you are a console junkie, like frontend options, or restart X often. Some optional and important dependencies, detected automatically: * ffmpeg: is recommended for support a wide audio files variety * libshout: this enables the shoutcast streaming output * libmms: used for play mms:// and mmsh:// type network streams * id3lib: add support for edit ID3 tags * avahi: add support for discover services on network * yajl: add support for open soundcloud.com streams Other optional dependencies: libmpdclient, musepack-tools, lame, faad2, fluidsynth, libsidplay2, twolame, libnfs and jack. You can enable this optional feature: ZZIPLIB=yes|no (default: no), enables open zip files, requires zziplib NOTE: Be sure to edit the config file (/etc/mpd.conf or ~/mpd.conf) before running the daemon.