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.
10 For basic installation instructions
11 [read the manual](https://www.musicpd.org/doc/user/install.html).
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/)
22 - [Protocol specification](http://www.musicpd.org/doc/protocol/)
23 - [Developer manual](http://www.musicpd.org/doc/developer/)
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.