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mpd

Daemon to remotely play music, stream music, handle and organize

Media Servers ★ 2.8k stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

Daemon to remotely play music, stream music, handle and organize playlists. Many clients available.

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Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Active community (2.8k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C++
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Is mpd secure?

OSV.dev lists 6 published advisories for mpd. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-49127, published 2026-05-28 (139 days ago), fixed in 0.24.11

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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SelfHostIndex: 84 · excellent

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