libmpd

An MPD client library.

http://github.com/vimus/libmpd-haskell#readme

Version on this page:0.9.2.0
LTS Haskell 23.23:0.10.0.1
Stackage Nightly 2025-05-20:0.10.0.1
Latest on Hackage:0.10.0.1

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MIT licensed by Ben Sinclair
Maintained by Joachim Fasting
This version can be pinned in stack with:libmpd-0.9.2.0@sha256:b514fe25cb131a8a563f1162524358b374c8ce7dde0de073f8a6849496fbe8c8,4010

Module documentation for 0.9.2.0

Used by 1 package in lts-16.24(full list with versions):
xmonad-extras

libmpd-haskell: a client library for MPD

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About

libmpd-haskell is a pure Haskell client library for MPD, the music playing daemon.

Getting

Installation

With cabal-install, do

cd libmpd-haskell && cabal install

Usage

With GHCi:

> :set -XOverloadedStrings
> import Network.MPD
> withMPD $ lsInfo ""
Right [LsDirectory "Tool", LsDirectory "Tom Waits",...]
> withMPD $ add "Tom Waits/Big Time"
Right ["Tom Waits/Big Time/01 - 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six.mp3",...]

MPD API compliance

Any deviation from the latest version of the MPD protocol reference is a bug.

Submitting bug reports

See our bug tracker. Test cases are highly appreciated.

Submitting patches

To submit a patch, use git format-patch and email the resulting file(s) to one of the developers or upload it to the bug tracker.

Alternatively you can create your own fork of the GitHub repository and send a pull request.

Well-formatted patches are appreciated. New features should have a test case.

See also

  • vimus, an MPD client with vim-like keybindings

Resources

License

libmpd-haskell is distributed under the MIT license.

Contributors

See CONTRIBUTORS in the source distribution. Feel free to add yourself to this list if you deem it appropriate to do so.

Changes

  • v0.9.2.0

    • New command: seekCur
    • Add newtype Sign to pass positive numbers to MPDArg with leading +/-.
    • Add monadic versions of deleteRange and moveRange commands (previously only had applicative versions)
    • Deprecate <&>, use <> instead. <&> will be removed in the next major version.

  • v0.9.1.0

    • Support partition in Network.MPD.Status
    • Ignore unknown key-value pairs in Network.MPD.status so that it breaks much less often.

  • v0.9.0.10

    • Port it for newer network library

  • v0.9.0, 2014-09-21

    • New commands: deleteRange, moveRange, playlistInfoRange, searchAdd, searchAddpl.
    • Fix playlistId and list
    • Add Mixramp commands
    • Support for MPD 0.17
    • Support for missing metadata keys.
    • Sticker idle events
    • Subscription and message events
    • New applicative interface which allows combining arbitrary commands into command lists (sol).
    • Consistent typing for song positions (sol).
    • Command definitions closer to the MPD spec; compound commands have been moved to N.M.C.Extensions.
    • Status.{stUpdatingDb,stTime,stBitrate,stVolume are now Maybe
    • MonadMPD.getHandle has been removed
    • Re-connect and retry on ResourceVanished (e.g., when the connection times out).

  • v0.8.0, 2012-04-21

    • Use bytestring for wire communication (sol)
    • Increased type safety (sol)
    • Improved memory usage (sol)
    • lsinfo supports playlists (nandykins)
    • idle now takes a list of subsystems (sol)
    • currentSong works when playback is stopped (sol)
    • Fixes failure on songs without associated paths (sol)
    • LsResult replaces EntryType (nandykins)
    • hspec based testing added to the test-suite
    • More extensive parser testing
    • MPDError now has an Exception instance
    • Lower bound on Cabal bumped to 1.10

  • v0.7.2, 2012-02-13

    • Release connections. Reported by Kanisterschleife on GitHub.
    • Some minor internal changes (sol)

  • v0.7.1, 2012-02-07

    • Compatible with GHC 7.4.1

  • v0.7.0, 2011-11-22

    • Several fixes to the test harness (Simon Hengel)
    • Fixed issue with the (<$>) operator (Simon Hengel)
    • Type safe handling of song IDs (Simon Hengel)
    • Check MPD version on connect (now depends on MPD >= 0.15) (Simon Hengel)
    • Compatibility with GHC 7.2 (Daniel Wagner)

  • v0.6.0, 2011-04-01

    • Reverted some changes from 0.5.0 that caused problems, most notably the parser improvements have been removed for now.
    • Support for GHC 7
    • Removed support for building against the deprecated base 3 package
    • Added an Enum instance for Metadata
    • Removed the old_base flag

  • v0.5.0, 2010-09-08

    • Moved extensions to Network.MPD.Commands.Extensions These might be removed in a later version
    • Non-blocking idle
    • The API is closer to the MPD spec, by untangling functionality
    • Better MPD API coverage
    • Improved parser implementation, now runs in constant space
    • Constructors of the Subsystem type have been renamed
    • Passwords can be changed using setPassword
    • The connection handle can be accessed via getHandle
    • The version of the MPD server is available via getVersion
    • Added support for connecting via unix sockets

  • v0.4.2, 2010-08-31

    • Only depend on QuickCheck when building the test target

  • v0.4.1, 2010-03-26

    • Fix building test and coverage targets

  • v0.4.0, 2010-03-26

    • New maintainer: Joachim Fasting <[email protected]>
    • Support QuickCheck 2
    • Better MPD api support Should be mostly compatible with mpd 0.16
    • Separated operations on current playlist from those on specific playlists
    • Fixed password sending
    • Several minor fixes and cleanups

  • v0.3.1, 2008-09-14

    • Now reconnects if MPD closes the connection.

  • v0.3.0, 2008-05-06

    • UTF-8 support (now depends on utf8-string package).
    • Fixed corruption by show of command parameters.
    • Tidied up Query interface.
    • Moved StringConn out of Network.MPD to the tests directory.

  • v0.2.1, 2008-04-14

    • Cleaned up libmpd.cabal.

  • v0.2.0, 2008-04-14

    • A connection stub for testing purposes.
    • QuickCheck tests for parsing.
    • Partial unit test coverage.
    • Many bug fixes.
    • Precise error handling.
    • Parsing improvements.
    • Code coverage generation.
    • Cabal 1.2 support.
    • Uniform command names.

  • v0.1.3, 2007-10-02

    • Bugfixes.

  • v0.1.2, 2007-09-29

    • Changed name to libmpd.

  • v0.1.1, 2007-09-28

    • Missing files added to the source distribution.

  • v0.1, 2007-09-28

    • Initial public release.