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This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of obvious dependencies such as glibc, a C compiler, etc...

The only requirement is you must compile with at least one audio output, and one decoder (and/or possibly encoder if icecast2 is your only output) dependency

[edit] Hard Dependencies

[edit] Glib

Glib was added to remove old MPD code which had been mostly unmaintained and probably improperly factored in the first place. This dependency addition creates a more stable MPD while decreasing MPD maintenance.

[edit] Audio Output

[edit] ALSA

ALSA is the recommended audio output plugin for Linux users.

Requires: alsa-lib

Note: It's highly recommended that you have at least version 1.0.16 (or higher) installed on your system. With lower versions playing audio stream (aka web radio) may lead to a deadlock (mpd no longer responding/playing) in mpd (see bug #2243). If you have version 1.0.15 or less the problem may be solved by disabling dmix.

[edit] icecast2

icecast2 - Used to stream output of MPD

libshout - Required with icecast2 to output to a stream
- LAME - Required to serve mp3 icecast streams.
- Ogg Vorbis - Required to serve ogg streams.

[edit] JACK

JACK Audio Connection Kit - Output to a JACK server.

[edit] libao

libao - libao is not recommended after 0.11.x for the ALSA or OSS plugin, unless you can't use the ALSA or OSS plugin. libao is a cross-platform audio library that allows output to the following:

Null output (handy for testing without a sound device)
WAV files
AU files
OSS (Open Sound System, used on many *nix distributions)
ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
PulseAudio (next generation GNOME sound server)
ESD (ESounD or Enlighten Sound Daemon)
AIX
Sun/NetBSD/OpenBSD
IRIX
NAS (Network Audio Server)

[edit] OSS

OSS - This driver takes is a duplicate of the libao driver, used mainly in situations where libao is not available such as embedded devices or cygwin.

[edit] OS X

OS X - This driver allows playing in the OS X environment.

[edit] Pulse

PulseAudio is a sound server for both POSIX and Windows systems. Formerly known as polypaudio, this streaming audio server is similar to ARTS or esound but hopefully without their awful warts. This is a native plugin, although there is also a plugin for libao.

[edit] Audio Decoding / Encoding

[edit] libmad

libmad - Required to play mp3 files

[edit] libmp4ff

libmp4ff - Required to play mp4 files; distributed with faad2.

For faad prior to version 2.7: To enable the building of libmp4ff during the installation from source of faad2 you will have to do the steps described here.

[edit] libogg

Commonly used in conjunction with libvorbis, described below

libogg - Required to play ogg files

[edit] faad

faad2 - Required to play aac

[edit] flac

flac - Required to play flac files and display metaflac tags

[edit] Audio File Library

libaudiofile - Required to play wav files

[edit] libmusepack

libmusepack - Required to play musepack (mpc not related to mpc) files.

[edit] libmikmod

libmikmod - Required to play the following mod files:

669 (Composer 669, Unis 669)
AMF (DSMI Advanced Module Format)
AMF (ASYLUM Music Format V1.0)
APUN (APlayer)
DSM (DSIK internal format)
FAR (Farandole Composer)
GDM (General DigiMusic)
IT (Impulse Tracker)
IMF (Imago Orpheus)
MOD (15 and 31 instruments)
MED (OctaMED)
MTM (MultiTracker Module editor)
OKT (Amiga Oktalyzer)
S3M (Scream Tracker 3)
STM (Scream Tracker)
STX (Scream Tracker Music Interface Kit)
ULT (UltraTracker)
UNI (MikMod)
XM (FastTracker 2)

[edit] Tagging

[edit] libid3tag

libid3tag - Required to display id3v1 or id3v2 tags

zlib - A requirement of libid3tag.

[edit] libvorbis

Commonly used in conjunction with libogg, described above

libvorbis - Required to display vorbis tags (FLAC, ogg)

Dependencies