MPD
MPD is a free, open-source music player for Android. A flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. It has 2,807 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-2.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
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About MPD
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds MPD from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
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Is MPD free and open source?
Yes. MPD's source code is public on GitHub under the GPL-2.0-or-later license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install MPD?
You can install MPD from F-Droid (package org.musicpd); the links are on this page.
Is MPD still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 27, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Feb 1, 2025. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.