This major release improves multi-channel support

Jan 6, 2017 00:26 GMT  ·  By

The folks over at Music Player Daemon (MPD) are kicking off the new year as well, bringing us a major update to the free, powerful, flexible, open-source and server-side application for playing music on our GNU/Linux systems.

From the release announcement, Music Player Daemon (MPD) 0.20 appears to be a major release that comes approximately one month after the last maintenance to the MPD 0.19 series. The Git changelog attached at the end of the article also shows us that this is a pretty big update with lots of improvements and new features.

The team highlights a few of the most important new features of MPD 0.20, which include the ability to read ID3 and APE tags from remote audio files through HTTP, SMB, or NFS protocols, implementation of audio/L16 and WavPack-DSD support, better multi-channel support, a new soxr resampler plugin, as well as DSD_U32 support.

A bunch of ALSA and JACK improvements are there as well

Other notable changes of the Music Player Daemon 0.20 release include better error reporting for both the client and log, a handful of enhancements to the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) and Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) sound systems, various protocol extension updates, and support for GCC 4.9 and Clang 3.4 or newer.

Again, if you're curious to know what exactly was changed or added in MPD 0.20, we recommend checking out the full internal changelog attached below. Through plugins and libraries, Music Player Daemon is capable of playing a wide range of audio files, and you can download the latest version right now from our website.

However, we always recommend that you install the newest version of an open-source application from the stable software repositories of your Linux-based operating system, if available, of course. MPD 0.20 already hit the Arch Linux repositories, and should land soon on your favorite distro, too.

MPD 0.20 Changelog