mpd
Daemon to remotely play music, stream music, handle and organize playlists. Many clients available.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 673 commits in the last 90 days.
Comparisons in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: Spotify alternatives, SoundCloud alternatives, Podbean alternatives.
At a glance
mpd quick facts
- Health score
- 59/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 2,809
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A daemon for playing music of various formats. Music is played through the server's audio device. The daemon stores info about all available music, and this info can be easily searched and retrieved. Player control, info retrieval, and playlist management can all be managed remotely."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
mpd scores 59/100, #23 of 28 in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: 673 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 2,809 stars add 13.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
673 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 13.8 / 20
2.8k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 673
- Last 90 days
- 1,141
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #23 of 28 tools in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming by health , between SwingMusic (#22) and Supysonic (#24) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | C++ |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 2,809 |
| Open issues | 130 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD ↗ |
mpd vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with mpd (Media Streaming - Audio Streaming), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navidrome Music Server | 98 | 24k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| LMS | 93 | 1.7k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| Beets | 87 | 16k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| koel | 87 | 17k | MIT | today |
| Audioserve | 82 | 863 | MIT | 2 days ago |
| mpd (this tool) | 59 | 2.8k | GPL-2.0 | 3 days ago |
mpd: common questions
Is mpd still maintained?
mpd had 673 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.