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mpc — Music Player Client: control the Music Player Daemon (MPD). See also: `mpd`, `ncmpcpp`, `cmus`. More

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Problem

How to use the mpc command: Music Player Client: control the Music Player Daemon (MPD). See also: mpd, ncmpcpp, cmus. More information: <https://www.musicpd.org/doc/mpc/html/>.

Solution

mpc — Music Player Client: control the Music Player Daemon (MPD). See also: mpd, ncmpcpp, cmus. More information: <https://www.musicpd.org/doc/mpc/html/>.

Toggle play/pause:
mpc toggle


Stop playing:
mpc stop


Show information about the currently playing song:
mpc status


Play the next song:
mpc next


Play the previous song:
mpc prev


Seek n seconds forward (+) or backward (-):
mpc {{+n|-n}}

Code Snippets

Toggle play/pause

mpc toggle

Stop playing

mpc stop

Show information about the currently playing song

mpc status

Play the next song

mpc next

Play the previous song

mpc prev

Context

tldr-pages: common/mpc

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