Commit d97c7d6a authored by Avuton Olrich's avatar Avuton Olrich

Clarify some very messy documentation in the installation.

parent 6821f2b7
Music Player Daemon (MPD) - INSTALL
Introduction
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This document is a very small amount of documentation about what is needed to
install MPD. If more information is desired see wiki at http://mpd.wikia.com.
Dependencies
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......@@ -28,6 +33,18 @@ ALSA - http://www.alsa-project.org/
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Recommended audio output if you use
Linux. You will need libasound.
FIFO
This is a mostly undocumented, developer plugin to transmit raw data.
MVP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge_MediaMVP
A network media player.
OSS - http://www.opensound.com
Open Sound System.
OSX - http://www.apple.com
Necessary if you are on Mac OSX.
PulseAudio - http://www.pulseaudio.org/
An advanced sound daemon. You will need libpulse.
......@@ -144,16 +161,14 @@ Run
$ mpd <config file>
(if no config file is specified, mpd's looks for ~/.mpdconf then /etc/mpd.conf)
an example would be:
$ mpd playlists/.mpdconf
First default is ~/.mpdconf then /etc/mpd.conf. If neither of these exist
a mpd configuration file must be specified at runtime. A
A sample config file is included with the source of MPD, mpdconf.example .
A sample config file is included with the source of MPD, mpdconf.example.
Note: The first time you run mpd, it will "explore" your mp3 directory for
mp3's.
The first time MPD is run it will attempt to discover all music in your
music root, recursively. This can be affected by the symlink options
specified in the example mpd.conf.
Using MPD
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