MPD

Music player deamon.

Setup

Install the required software:

sudo aura -S mpd ncmpcpp mpdscribble
sudo aura -Aa mpd-mpris

Set up the required files. See my dotfiles for mpd/ncmpcpp here.

touch ~/.config/mpd/{database,log,pid,state,sticker.sql}

Configure mpdscribble (~/.mpdscribble/mpdscribble.conf) with your last.fm credentials:

username = LAST_FM_USERNAME
password = LAST_FM_PASSWORD

Start the services (use enable to run them at boot)

systemctl --user start mpd mpdscribble mpd-mpris

Playerctl

Playerctl is a CLI controller for a number of music players. I have some keybindings in i3 to interact with this.

sudo aura -S playerctl

Ensure that the mpd-mpris.service is running and check available players with playerctl -l. If anything is returned it should work.

Links

• Ncmpcpp on Arch Linux Wiki
• MPD on Arch Linux Wiki