mpd Command Examples

Music Player Daemon. See also: mpc, ncmpcpp. More information: https://www.musicpd.org/.

• Start MPD:

mpd

• Start MPD but don't read from the configuration file:

mpd --no-config

• Start MPD and don't detach it from the console:

mpd --no-daemon

• Kill the currently running MPD session:

mpd --kill