From Music Player Daemon Community Wiki

This is a collection of various Hacks & Scripts that have been collected over time. Feel free to improve on them, add new ones, but don't be surprised if they're broken or otherwise not working.

WARNING: Do not assume these have not been modified. They are usually very short so take the time to review it before running it.

• play - Just type "play mygfavaoritealbum" and your favorite album is loaded. Very typo tolerant.
• addrandom - Horrible hack to add random song to currently playing. Edit this example and make it better!
• AMPDlogger - Small bash script to log tracks played with MPD to a plain text file.
• arthist-recent - Dirty hack to let Artist display tracks in reverse chronological order
• bluempd - Hacks and instructions on using your bluetooth device to control MPD
• copycurrent - Copies the currently playing song to a USB-Stick
• dplay - MPD integration with Midnight Commander
• favo-fiddle - volume fading, random volume manipulation
• impc - Irssi client.
• mpc-fade - Volume fading
• Mpdalbum - a shell script able to automatically fill your playlist with full albums and with some other nice features.
• mpddb2xml - A simple MPD database to XML parser
• mpdfind - xmmsfind clone for mpd
• rmprev - Removes previously played song from playlist
• mppledit - Playlist editor that uses your $EDITOR to manipulate the playlist
• mpc-pause - Bind this script to a key to toggle pause/play just like XMMS' --pause-play argument. (Deprecated to mpc toggle)
• mpc-play - Play any file (e.g. outside mpdroot directory)
• mpc-dmenu - Use dmenu to select a song from the current playlist
• mpc_playlist - uses mpc to add playlists beginning with special char
• mpdlyricsonbrowser - Show lyrics of current song on a mozilla like browser.
• mpdlyrics - Shows lyrics of current song on w3m browser [you may change it] (fetchs it or read previously stored). Uses "feeling lucky" feature. Dirty bash script.
• mpdwiki - Shows wikipedia article about current mpd artist using w3m [you may change it].
• streamup - Start and stop a stream seamlessly
• state save - Save and restore MPD states on your localhost.
• streampush - Give this script a url, it'll add all the streams in that page.
• SystemV Init - Init Script to start and stop MPD via System V
• update and add - first update, then add all music files
• xchat_mpd - MPD control script for Xchat. As of version 0.1 (current version), only supports track announce.
• MPC / MPD Score command - Add support for scoring
• MusicMagicMixer - script to use with mpc and Predixis MusicMagicMixer
• irssi-np - script that posts the song playing in mpd to an irc channel
• lyrc - Fetches lyrics from lyrc.com.ar. (alternative: lyriki) Bash script, but there's also a zsh version.
• mlyric - Fetches lyrics of the currently playing song, adds it to id3tag and displays it on stdout. If id3tag already has a lyric, this one will be displayed instead.
• playstream - Smart handler for m3u and pls files.
• mpd_osd - Dirty hack to display the title of the played song by OSD
• di.fm-playlists - Download all playlists from www.di.fm, convert them from .pls to .m3u and place them into the mpd-playlist-directory
• ices-client - A Perl script for streaming MP3s to your Icecast server
• mpd-osd.sh and mpd-new-track.sh - Two Shell scripts, the first draw the current track with xosd, and the second works with the latter to show an OSD when a new track is being played.
• mpd_lyric.sh - A shell script for displaying lyrics with interactive programs, ie less
• mpd-growl.pl - A perl script that will post notifications on song change.
• mpd_alarm.pl - A perl script that allows you to start mpd playing with a slowly increasing volume at a configurable time.
• mpckbd - Simple C program to respond to run mpc in response to keyboard events.
• rg.py - A wrapper around mp3gain that adds ReplayGain info to ID3v2 tags instead of APEv2 tags.
• ape2id3.py - A script to convert APEv2 ReplayGain tags to ID3v2 ReplayGain tags which MPD can read.
• Hack:avahi mpd.service - announce mpd with avahi
• Hack:avahi phpmp.service announce phpmp with avahi
• weempd - A client to announce the song of weechat

• streammpc - A script that passes a playlist (m3u or pls formats currently supported) to a user selected choice between a local player and a remote MPD server. Intended for use with webradio streams in general and streamtuner in specific.
• stream-monitor - Two scripts that monitor mpd while it is playing a stream. If the Time: status stops then it tries to have it play the stream again. Keeps the stream going 24/7.

• lastfmpdqc - lastfm/mpd queuing client. gets recommended tracks from last.fm and adds them from your library to mpd's current playlist

• ralbum - Simple C program that plays a random album.
• ralbumd - Simple C daemon that polls mpd and plays a random album when the current playlist is finished.
• MPDGajim - Very simple Python pseudo-daemon which updates Gajim's status to the current track. (Requires mpdclient2)
• stop_after_current - A bash script that makes mpd stop after the currently playing song.
• smpc - Micro script that works with dzen to show On-Screen info of mpc output.
• mpd-stats - Simple perl scripts to keep track of what mpd is playing and generate stats from it
• mpdlyricsscript - A very working python mpd lyrics script. No extra dependencies!
• musicplaynow - A tiny shell script for playing MP3 files from any location, even outside the music_directory (made for integration with desktop shells)