Music Player Daemon (MPD) for Debian
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After installation, you will need to populate the MPD database. It is
recommended that you do this through a client such as mpc, or by running
"invoke-rc.d mpd force-restart".

To prevent mpd from running as a system service, edit /etc/default/mpd and
set "START_MPD=false". A normal user account may then run mpd from their
session using their own ~/.mpdconf and adjusted paths. A sample mpd.desktop
file that can be copied to ~/.config/autostart/ is provided for your
convenience.

In the default /etc/mpd.conf, bind_to_address is set to "localhost" in
order to prevent other (possibly untrusted) hosts from accessing MPD.
If you wish to allow other hosts to access MPD, you must change this
value to an appropriate interface, or comment it out to enable listening
on all network interfaces.

When using ALSA with dmix, you may run into problems sharing the sound card
between the "mpd" user and your own account. A workaround is to use ALSA's
"ipc_key_add_uid" and "ipc_perm" directives. See the ALSA documentation for
instructions on how to add this to your configuration.

Similarly, if you plan to use a JACK output, you might need to make mpd and
jackd run under the same user, since a typical JACK setup doesn't permit
several users to access the sound daemon.