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# MPDUpdate Plugin

`mpdupdate` is a very simple plugin for beets that lets you automatically update MPD’s index whenever you change your beets library.

To use `mpdupdate` plugin, enable it in your configuration (see Using Plugins). Then, you’ll probably want to configure the specifics of your MPD server. You can do that using an `mpd:` section in your `config.yaml`, which looks like this:

    mpd:
        host: localhost
        port: 6600
        password: seekrit

With that all in place, you’ll see beets send the “update” command to your MPD server every time you change your beets library.

If you want to communicate with MPD over a Unix domain socket instead over TCP, just give the path to the socket in the filesystem for the `host` setting. (Any `host` value starting with a slash or a tilde is interpreted as a domain socket.)

## Configuration

The available options under the `mpd:` section are:

- host: The MPD server name. Default: The `$MPD_HOST` environment variable if set, falling back to `localhost` otherwise.

- port: The MPD server port. Default: The `$MPD_PORT` environment variable if set, falling back to 6600 otherwise.

- password: The MPD server password. Default: None.