Music Player Command(1)

NAME
mpc - Program for controlling Music Player Daemon (MPD)

SYNOPSIS
mpc [<command> <arguments>]

DESCRIPTION
mpc is a client for MPD, the Music Player Daemon. mpc connects to a MPD and controls it according to commands and arguments passed to it. If no arguments are passed, current status is given.

OPTIONS

--format
    Configure the format of song display for status and the playlist. The metadata delimiters are "%name%", "%artist%", "%album%", "%title%", "%track%", "%time%", and "%file%". The [] operator is used to group output such that if no metadata delimiters are found or matched between '[' and ']', then none of the characters between '[' and ']' are output. '&' and '|' are logical operators for and and or. '#' is used to escape characters. Some useful examples for format are: "%file%" and "[[%artist% - ]%title%]|[%file%]". This command also takes the following defined escape sequences:
    \\ - backslash
    \a - alert
    \b - backspace
    \t - tab
    \n - newline
    \v - vertical tab
    \f - form-feed
    \r - carriage return

--no-status
    Prevents the current song status from being printed on completion of some of the commands.

COMMANDS

add <file>
    Adds a song from the music database to the playlist. Can also read input from pipes. Use "mpc ls | mpc add" to add all files to the playlist.

clear
    Empties playlist.

crop
    Remove all songs except for the currently playing song.

crossfade [<seconds>]
    Gets and sets the current amount of crossfading between songs (0 disables crossfading).

del <songpos>
    Removes a playlist number from the playlist. Can also read input from pipes (0 deletes the current playing song).

disable <output #>
    Disables the output, number is required.

enable <output #>
    Enables the output, number is required.

listall [<file>]
    Lists <file> from playlist. If no <file> is specified, lists all songs.

load <file>
    Loads <file> as playlist.

ls [<directory>]
    Lists all files/folders in <directory>. If no <directory> is specified, lists all files in music directory.

lsplaylists
    Lists available playlists.

move <from> <to>
    Moves song at position <from> to the position <to> in the playlist.

next
    Starts playing next song on playlist.

outputs
    Lists all available outputs

pause
    Pauses playing.

play <position>
    Starts playing the song-number specified. If none is specified, plays number 1.

playlist
    Prints entire playlist.

prev
    Starts playing previous song.

random <on|off>
    Toggle random mode if state ("on" or "off") is not specified.

repeat <on|off>
    Toggle repeat mode if state ("on" or "off") is not specified.

rm <file>
    Deletes a specific playlist.

save <file>
    Saves playlist as <file>.

search <type> <query> [<type> <query>]...
    Searches for songs where all of the given tag <type>s match the given <query>s. Any number of tag type and query combinations can be specified. Possible tag types are: artist, album, title, track, name, genre, date, composer, performer, comment, disc, filename, or any (to match any tag).

find <type> <query> [<type> <query>]...
    Same as search, but match <query>s exactly.

list <type> [<type> <query>]...
    Return a list of all tags of given tag <type>. Optional search <type>s/<query>s limit results in a way similar to search.

seek [+-][<HH:MM:SS>] or <[+-]<0-100>%>
    Seeks by hour, minute or seconds, hours or minutes can be omitted. If seeking by percentage, seeks within the current song in the specified manner. If a "+" or "-" is used, the seek is done relative to the current song position. Absolute seeking by default.

shuffle
    Shuffles all songs on the playlist.

stats
    Displays statistics about MPD.

stop
    Stops playing.

toggle
    Toggles between play and pause. If stopped starts playing. Does not support start playing at song number (use play).

update [<path>]
    Scans music directory for updates if no <path> is specified. If one or more <path>'s are specified, scans only those path's for updates. Can take input from a pipe.

version
    Reports the version of MPD.

volume [+-]<num>
    Sets the volume to <num> (0-100). If "+" or "-" is used, then it adjusts the volume relative to the current volume.

ENVIRONMENT

This section describes some environment variables that affect how mpc operates.

MPD_HOST, MPD_PORT
    By default, mpc connects to localhost:6600. This can be changed either at compile-time, or by exporting the MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT environment variables.
    If you specify an absolute path in MPD_HOST, mpc attempts a connection via Unix Domain Socket.
    To use a password with MPD, set MPD_HOST to password@host.

EXAMPLES

For useful examples of mpc use in playlist parsing, see mpd-m3u-playlist.sh and mpd-pls-playlist.sh.

BUGS
Report bugs on http://www.musicpd.org/mantis/

NOTE
Since MPD uses UTF-8, mpc needs to convert characters to the charset used by the local system. If you get character conversion errors when you're running mpc you probably need to set up your locale. This is done by setting any of the LC_CTYPE, LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (LC_CTYPE only affects character handling).

SEE ALSO
mpd(1)

AUTHOR
    See <https://svn.musicpd.org/mpc/trunk/AUTHORS>, for contributors to mpc