Mopidy VS ncmpc

Mopidy

Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python. Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a range of MPD and web clients.

ncmpc

ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses).

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Mopidy Music Server (2018) Setup and Test

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Spotify + Mopidy + ncmpcpp = The most Linux way to listen to Spotify!

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Audio Player

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Media Player

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Music Player

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Reviews

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Mopidy Reviews

35 Open-source Free Music and Audio Streaming Servers (Self-hosted)

Mopidy is a Python-based music server that can play music from various sources such as local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, TuneIn, and more. It allows playlist editing from any device using MPD and web clients.

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Mopidy seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 44 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Mopidy mentions (44)

Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the company
Lots and lots of FOSS music players use libspotify or can otherwise connect to your Spotify account. Here's just one. It's BYO frontend. https://mopidy.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now
Probably a good time to give a shout out to Mopidy: https://mopidy.com/ Though as for myself, I'm still running Squeezebox - nothing like being able to SSH into your smart speaker and mess around with the Perl system that's running it. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
I have a music library on my home server that I use mopidy to play via the iris plugin integrated into my home assistant UI. It plays over Snapcast which streams over the network to multiple devices in the home with independent volume control. I can fire up the Snapcast client in my phone to get it going there as well, which does work over vpn if I'm away, though I generally just fire up the files from my phones... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Whole home sync'd rpi audio w plex, spotify, airplay
Could instead use Mopidy as the music player, which has plugins for Spotify and Airplay support. Source: about 1 year ago
How I organize my digital music collection -- suggestions for metadata/storage/tools?
Thanks! I use it on a daily basis, but I don’t think it’s ready for a wider adoption yet — for example, a pause button is still missing ... I’d be curious to know your experience with it though! For something more stable, you might like Mopidy. Source: over 1 year ago