1 .TH "Music Player Daemon" 1
3 MPD \- A daemon for playing music
9 MPD is a daemon for playing music. Music is played through the configured
10 audio output(s) (which are generally local, but can be remote). The daemon
11 stores info about all available music, and this info can be easily searched and
12 retrieved. Player control, info retrieval, and playlist management can all be
15 MPD searches for a config file in \fB~/.mpdconf\fP then \fB/etc/mpd.conf\fP or
18 Read more about MPD at <\fBhttp://www.musicpd.org/\fP>.
22 Output a brief help message.
25 Kill the currently running mpd session. The pid_file parameter must be
26 specified in the config file for this to work.
29 Force (re)creation of database and exit.
32 Do not create database, even if it doesn't exist.
35 Don't detach from console.
38 Print messages to stdout and stderr.
44 Print version information.
48 User configuration file.
51 Global configuration file.
55 If you find a bug, please report it at
57 <\fBhttp://www.musicpd.org/mantis/bug_report_page.php\fP>.
59 Warren Dukes <warren.dukes@gmail.com>
61 Special thanks to all the people that provided feedback and patches.