ClientLib:Perl Modules

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[edit] Perl modules to connect to MPD

There are 2 Perl modules available to connect to MPD:

• Audio::MPD for regular scripts
• POE::Component::Client::MPD for POE-aware perl scripts

Those two modules are developed and maintained by Jerome Quelin.

Discussion about those modules happen on the audio-mpd@googlegroups.com mailing-list. Feel free to join us by signing up.

[edit] Audio::MPD

• Description: Audio::MPD is a Perl module for interfacing MPD through perl scripts.
• Download: http://search.cpan.org/~jquelin/Audio-MPD/
• Report bug: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Audio-MPD
• Browse repository: http://svn.musicpd.org/MPD.pm/trunk/
• Subversion: https://svn.musicpd.org/MPD.pm/trunk/

Some scripts are also provided within the module, such as:

• mpd-dynamic: implements a dynamic playlist for mpd

High-level changelog for Audio::MPD module:

• 0.17.x introducing AM::Playlist + AM::Time
• 0.16.x utf-8 support + introducing mpd-dynamic script
• 0.15.x introducing AM::Collection
• 0.14.x introducing AM::Items
• 0.13.x rewrote connection mechanism
• 0.12.4 adoption by jerome quelin & quick fixes
• 0.12.0 adoption by nicholas j humphrey & first release on cpan
• 0.10.0 adapting to evolving mpd
• [...]  ? (no information)
• 0.1.0 initial release by tue abrahamsen

[edit] POE::Component::Client::MPD

• Description: POE::Component::Client::MPD is a Perl module for interfacing MPD through poe-aware perl scripts.
• Download: http://search.cpan.org/~jquelin/POE-Component-Client-MPD/
• Report bug: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=POE-Component-Client-MPD
• Browse repository: http://svn.musicpd.org/MPD.pm/poe-trunk/
• Subversion: https://svn.musicpd.org/MPD.pm/poe-trunk/

Audio::MPD is nice and quite feature-full, but it is synchronous by design. And sometimes, this can be a problem (server crashing at the wrong time, slow mpd slowing application, etc). Moreover, if MPD is to support asynchronous event ("playlist has changed", etc.), Audio::MPD has no easy way to include this.

On the other hand, POE is a Perl framework designed with asynchronous-ism in mind. Therefore, it made sense to port (and dual-life) Audio::MPD to POE. Hence the new module POE::Component::Client::MPD, based on Audio::MPD with some tweaks in the internals.

Note: This module is currently under development, and not yet as feature-full as Audio::MPD

High-level changelog for Audio::MPD module:

• 0.0.1 initial release by Jerome Quelin, based on Audio::MPD