How to Install and Uninstall mpdcron Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 25,2024

1. Install "mpdcron" package

This tutorial shows how to install mpdcron on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mpdcron
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mpdcron" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall mpdcron on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mpdcron
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mpdcron package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: mpdcron
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Installed-Size: 1279
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastien Delafond
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.3+git20110303-6
Depends: libnotify-bin, ruby, ruby-nokogiri, libc6 (>= 2.15), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libdaemon0 (>= 0.14), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libmpdclient2 (>= 2.1), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9)
Suggests: mpd
Filename: pool/universe/m/mpdcron/mpdcron_0.3+git20110303-6_amd64.deb
Size: 224808
MD5sum: 931b97f72ff1a76871a162463df8426a
SHA1: 59854221c8c5ce22b0fc4e951df2c7579d3c6ecf
SHA256: cf7bc07cf9932b193cb3089a51421911ce33a2adf7f8351e4c229bb4f02bff9b
Description-en: add scrobbler, rating, play counts and other functionalities to MPD
mpdcron is a daemon that watches a Music Player Daemon instance for idle
states and execs commands triggered by specific states.
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* Uses mpd's idle mode.
* Calls hooks depending on the event.
* Sets special environment variables to pass data to the hooks.
* Optional support for modules via GModule.
* Included modules:
- notification
+ uses notify-send to send notifications.
+ can detect repeated songs.
- scrobbler
+ uses curl to submit songs to Last.fm or Libre.fm
- stats
+ module saves song data to a sqlite database
+ supports loving, killing, rating and tagging songs, artists,
albums and genres.
+ tracks play count of songs, artist, albums and genres.
+ implements a simple server protocol for remote clients to
receive data.
Description-md5: 41d943bd9a1c99f5ec382181a8746e61
Homepage: http://alip.github.com/mpdcron
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu