README.md

   1 # Music Player Daemon
   2
   3 http://www.musicpd.org
   4
   5 A daemon for playing music of various formats.  Music is played through the
   6 server's audio device.  The daemon stores info about all available music,
   7 and this info can be easily searched and retrieved.  Player control, info
   8 retrieval, and playlist management can all be managed remotely.
   9
  10 For basic installation instructions
  11 [read the manual](https://www.musicpd.org/doc/user/install.html).
  12
  13 # Users
  14
  15 - [Manual](http://www.musicpd.org/doc/user/)
  16 - [Forum](http://forum.musicpd.org/)
  17 - [IRC](irc://chat.freenode.net/#mpd)
  18 - [Bug tracker](https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/)
  19
  20 # Developers
  21
  22 - [Protocol specification](http://www.musicpd.org/doc/protocol/)
  23 - [Developer manual](http://www.musicpd.org/doc/developer/)
  24
  25 # Legal
  26
  27 MPD is released under the
  28 [GNU General Public License version 2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt),
  29 which is distributed in the COPYING file.