MPDUpdate Plugin#
mpdupdate
is a very simple plugin for beets that lets you automatically
update MPD’s index whenever you change your beets library.
To use mpdupdate
plugin, enable it in your configuration
(see Using Plugins).
Then, you’ll probably want to configure the specifics of your MPD server.
You can do that using an mpd:
section in your config.yaml
,
which looks like this:
mpd:
host: localhost
port: 6600
password: seekrit
With that all in place, you’ll see beets send the “update” command to your MPD server every time you change your beets library.
If you want to communicate with MPD over a Unix domain socket instead over
TCP, just give the path to the socket in the filesystem for the host
setting. (Any host
value starting with a slash or a tilde is interpreted as a domain
socket.)
Configuration#
The available options under the mpd:
section are:
host: The MPD server name. Default: The
$MPD_HOST
environment variable if set, falling back tolocalhost
otherwise.port: The MPD server port. Default: The
$MPD_PORT
environment variable if set, falling back to 6600 otherwise.password: The MPD server password. Default: None.