Upmpdcli

upmpdcli is Article description::a free and open source UPnP media renderer front-end for Music Player Daemon (MPD). It allows MPD to be controlled with a UPnP control point (e.g. BubbleUPnP). upmpdcli also allows a single UPnP library to be shared between UPnP control points/renderers and MPD, meaning MPD can be run without a database.

Prerequisites

This article assumes that MPD and a UPnP media server such as Gerbera have been previously configured.

Installation

Configuration

Below is a snippet of the default upmpdcli configuration file. Options prefixed with # are commented out because they are set to default values. The options that need to be set are upnpiface or upnpip and mpdhost. If the UPnP or MPD ports have been changed from their defaults, then upnpport and mpdport should be set accordingly.

# upmpdcli general parameters
#logfilename = /var/log/upmpdcli.log
#loglevel = 2
#pkgdatadir=/usr/share/upmpdcli
#pidfile = /var/run/upmpdcli.pid

# upnp network parameters
#upnpiface =
upnpip = 192.168.0.1
#upnpport =

# media renderer parameters
#friendlyname = UpMpd
#upnpav = 1
#openhome = 1
#lumincompat = 0
#saveohcredentials = 1
#checkcontentformat = 1
#iconpath = /usr/share/upmpdcli/icon.png
#cachedir = /var/cache/upmpdcli
#presentationhtml = /usr/share/upmpdcli/presentation.html

# mpd parameters
mpdhost = 192.168.0.1
#mpdport = 6600
#mpdpassword =
#ownqueue = 1

upmpdcli relies on MPD's curl input plugin which should be enabled by default. It can be explicitly enabled by adding the following to the MPD configuration file:

input {
	plugin			"curl"
	enabled			"yes"
}

Restart MPD for the changes to take effect:

See also

• MPD — a flexible, server-side application for playing music.

External resources

• upmpdcli - MPD and UPnP