This is a collection of small toys and tools for doing various things to MPD (Music Player Daemon) from the command line. Some of them are very useful, while others are only amusing.

Some examples of things the mpdtoys can do include moving the playing song between different mpd daemons on different machines, storing the state of a mpd daemon and loading it back later, reversing the playlist, slowly fading volume up or down, stopping playback after the current song finishes, emulating a skipping record, and editing the playlist in a text editor.

The mpdtoys are available in git at git://git.kitenet.net/mpdtoys, or in gitweb.

News

mpdtoys 0.8 released with these changes

  • vipl: New program, allows editing the mpd playlist in your text editor.
  • Use debhelper v7; rules file minimisation.
  • Use DESTDIR rather than DEST.
Posted in the wee hours of Tuesday night, April 30th, 2008

mpdtoys 0.7 released with these changes

  • sats: Add -n option allowing to stop after more than one song has played.
Posted in the wee hours of Tuesday night, January 30th, 2008

mpdtoys 0.6 released with these changes

  • mpswap: Fix handling when two hosts are specified on the command line.
Posted late Saturday afternoon, January 19th, 2008