Installation

Currently only linux is officially supported. Precompiled binary is provided on Github and an AUR package is available for Arch. To build rmpc yourself you will need to have rust toolchain installed. More installation methods will come in the future.

Steps

1. Install rmpc using one of the provided methods

2. Setup your config file

   Configuring rmpc Generate sample config file for rmpc and customize it to your liking.

3. Run rmpc

   rmpc
   # or if you want to check out the CLI
   rmpc --help

Note

Minimum supported MPD version is 0.23.5. Other versions may work, but you are on your own.

Packaging status

Installation methods

Arch Linux

pacman -S rmpc
# or
yay -S rmpc-git

openSUSE Tumbleweed

zypper install rmpc

NixOS

Add rmpc (available in nixos-unstable and nixos-24.11) to your systemPackages and rebuild.

{ pkgs, ... }:

{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    rmpc
  ];
}

Precompiled binaries

Download the precompiled binaries from the github releases page. After it’s done downloading, untar the archive, set execute permission and run rmpc.

Using cargo

# compile the latest version from source
cargo install rmpc --locked
# or download precompiled binary with cargo binstall
cargo binstall rmpc
# or compile the latest work in progress version from git
cargo install --git https://github.com/mierak/rmpc --locked