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            Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python.
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            Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud,
            TuneIn, and more. You can edit the playlist from any
            phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.
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        <h2>Stream music from the cloud</h2>

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          Vanilla Mopidy only plays music from files and radio streams.
          Through <a href="/ext/">extensions</a>,
          Mopidy can play music from cloud services like Spotify, SoundCloud,
          and TuneIn.
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          With Mopidy's extension support,
          you can easily add backends for new music sources.
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        <h2>Mopidy is just a server</h2>

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          Mopidy is a Python application that runs in a
          terminal or in the background on Linux computers or Macs that have
          network connectivity and audio output.
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          Out of the box, Mopidy is an HTTP server.
          If you install the <a href="/ext/mpd/">Mopidy-MPD</a> extension,
          it becomes an MPD server too.
          Many additional frontends for controlling Mopidy are available as
          extensions.
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        <h2>Pick your favorite client</h2>

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          You and the people around you can all connect their
          favorite MPD or web client to the Mopidy server to search for music
          and manage the playlist together.
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          With a browser or MPD client, which is available
          for all popular operating systems, you can control the music from
          any phone, tablet, or computer.
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            <a href="/ext/iris/">Mopidy-Iris</a>
            by James Barnsley
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        <h2>Mopidy on Raspberry Pi</h2>

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          The
          <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/">Raspberry Pi</a>
          is an approachable single-board computer to run Mopidy on,
          either using Raspbian, Ubuntu, or Arch Linux.
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        <p>
          Pimoroni recommends Mopidy for use with their
          <a href="https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/pirate-audio">Pirate Audio</a>
          audio gear for Raspberry Pi.
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        <h2>Mopidy is hackable</h2>

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          Mopidy's extension support and Python, JSON-RPC, and JavaScript
          APIs make Mopidy a perfect base for your projects.
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          In this example project,
          a Raspberry Pi was embedded in an old cassette player.
          The buttons and volume control are wired up with
          <abbr title="General-purpose input/output">GPIO</abbr>
          on the Raspberry Pi and is used to control playback through a
          custom Mopidy extension. The cassettes have
          <abbr title="Near field communication">NFC</abbr>
          tags used to select playlists from Spotify.
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            Hack by
            <a href="https://twitter.com/mattbrailsford/status/429952006984572928">
              Matt Brailsford</a>
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    <h2 class="title">Ready to get started?</h2>

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        Install Mopidy</a>
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