MPD protocol is not documented

[anarcat]

What does the MPD protocol do? I have tried grepping the web and the documentation, and all I can find are the settings page, which don't really explain what the plugin does.

Anyone care to explain?

[smimram]

Hi,

The mailing-list would be more appropriate for this kind of questions. The mpd protocol can be used to generate songs by their tags such as mpd:artist=Britney. In order to find songs, Liquidsoap connects to an MPD server and queries it. The server can be configured through mpd.host / mpd.port parameters.

[anarcat]

I nevertheless think this is a bug: there is pretty good documentation for other modules, there should be code samples explaining how this works in the documentation. For example, where would I put "mpd:artist=Britney"?

Since documentation is shipped with the liquidsoap source code, it seems to me fair that this is a bug reported against the said source code. If people can brainstorm on how this work, I can formulate a pull request to improve the documentation, after some tests!

[smimram]

Yes, this could be enhanced in the doc, which is why I did not close the BR. You can use

mpd:tag=value

as any other file (in a playlist for instance).

[anarcat]

Thanks! This seems to be the trick, except it doesn't work here, but this may be a 1.0-specific bug... see #111.

[smimram]

No one should use the MPD protocol in 2019 anymore, closing this.

[anarcat]

what's wrong with MPD? I still use it and it's working fine... if it shouldn't be used in liquidsoap, seems to be the code should be removed, or it should be documented. either way, something should probably be done with this ticket, no? :)

[smimram]

Ok fine, I am reopening :)