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Note: the information in this wiki is outdated. Please read the protocol reference in the MPD tarball (doc/protocol.xml) or read the protocol documentation online.

[edit] MPD Protocol Communication

• Protocol Outline
• Commands
  • Admin Commands - Commands for MPD administrators
  • Database Commands - Commands for Browsing the DB
  • Miscellaneous Commands - Miscellaneous MPD Commands
  • Playback Commands- Commands for Controlling Playback
  • Playlist Commands - Commands for Manipulating the Playlist
  • Scope specifiers - Control what you search for
• MPD Command Responses
  • Responses from DB Commands
  • Responses from Playlist Commands
  • Miscellaneous Responses
  • Ack Error Responses - Acknowledgement Error Responses
• Command List - MPD Command Lists

• Guidelines - General guidelines and hints for implementing a MPD client

• Offsite: some more protocol explanation on the py-libmpdclient2 page

See also the protocol description in the MPD repository

[edit] MPD Protocol Development

This is just space to develop new protocol features, and request for comments. This stuff is not necessarily implemented in MPD (yet).

• Listener Protocol - Protocol for clients to listen on a socket for status changes/info etc...