# Install mpd with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop

Music Player Daemon. Version 0.24.13 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-10. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install mpd.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mpd
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mpd
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install mpd
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: audio/mpd/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add mpd
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mpd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mpd
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: mpd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install mpd
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mpd from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mpd
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mp/mpd/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S mpd
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: mpd from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install mpd
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mpd from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install mpd
```

  Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: mpd from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='7.7216','memprofiler'

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/mpd
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mpd.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mpd
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.24.13
- **Source summary:** Music Player Daemon
- **Homepage:** <https://www.musicpd.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-10T13:51:00Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mpd (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.24.13
## Project history and usage

Music Player Daemon is a free software music server that appeared in 2003 and is associated with Max Kellermann and The Music Player Daemon Project. The project describes MPD as a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music, controlled through its network protocol and extended through plugins and libraries for many audio formats. The project AUTHORS file credits a broad contributor base around the daemon.

### Project history

MPD's defining technical milestone is its separation of playback from control. The daemon runs in the background, maintains a music database and playlist, and lets separate clients manipulate playback, browse the database, or automate it over the protocol. That model made it attractive for headless machines, remote control, hotkey scripts, terminal front ends, web clients, and embedded audio setups. The MPD documentation presents mpc as the basic CLI client, while the wider ecosystem includes richer terminal, graphical, mobile, and web clients.

### Adoption history

Adoption spread beyond hobbyist Unix desktops into commercial audio hardware. The MPD project maintains a list of commercial products known to use MPD as a backend and frames that adoption through the GPL obligations attached to shipping modified GPL components. In package managers, MPD is the central server package that related packages orbit around: mpc controls it, mpdscribble and mpdas listen to its playback state for scrobbling, and client libraries expose the protocol to other programs.

### How it is used

In practice, users configure mpd.conf, point MPD at a music directory or streams, choose audio outputs, and control it from clients. Its niche is not an all-in-one player interface, but a long-running playback service for people who want the player decoupled from the interface.

### Sources

- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon>
- <https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD>
- <https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/master/AUTHORS>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/master/NEWS>
- <https://www.musicpd.org/>
- <https://www.musicpd.org/commercial.html>


## Security Notes

formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf, ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf, /etc/mpd.conf

## Credential files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf, ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf, /etc/mpd.conf
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - mpd - 0.24.4-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mpd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Music Player Daemon | https://www.musicpd.org/
- Nix - mpd: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mp/mpd/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - mpd - 0.23.14-2build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mpd from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Music Player Daemon | https://www.musicpd.org/
- apk - mpd - 0.24.13-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mpd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Music daemon that plays MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis files and Audio CDs | https://musicpd.org/
- apk - mpd-dbg - 0.24.13-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mpd-dbg from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Music daemon that plays MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis files and Audio CDs (debug symbols) | https://musicpd.org/
- apk - mpd-doc - 0.24.13-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mpd-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Music daemon that plays MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis files and Audio CDs (documentation) | https://musicpd.org/
- apk - mpd-openrc - 0.24.13-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mpd-openrc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Music daemon that plays MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis files and Audio CDs (OpenRC init scripts) | https://musicpd.org/
- dnf - mpd - 0.24.13-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mpd from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Music player daemon | https://www.musicpd.org/
- pacman - mpd - 0.24.13-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: mpd from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music | https://www.musicpd.org/
- zypper - mpd - 0.24.13-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mpd from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Music Player Daemon | https://musicpd.org
- zypper - mpd-doc - 0.24.13-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mpd-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Additional Package Documentation | https://musicpd.org
- MacPorts - mpd: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: audio/mpd/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - mpd: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: mpd from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='7.7216','memprofiler'
- Scoop - main/mpd: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mpd.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mpd.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mpd.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph