CryMPD is minimalistic web-based MPD client while MPD is a powerful yet simple server-client music server. However there is no Crympd package available in Debian, thankfully it offers a standalone binary, just download it and give it excution right.

  • Operation System: Debian Bookworm
  • cryMPD: 0.4.0

Download from github

Firstly download crympd_v0.4.0_linux-amd64

`sudo mv crympd_v0.4.0_linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/crympd` # Move package to new location
`sudo chown root /usr/local/bin/crympd` # Change owner to root
`sudo chmod 700 /usr/local/bin/crympd` # Add x
`sudo systemctl edit --force --full crympd.service` # Create service file and modify as below

[Unit]
Description=A minimalistic web-based MPD client
Wants=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/crympd
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable & Start the service

sudo systemctl enable --now crympd.service

Debug errors

sudo systemctl status crympd.service

sudo journalctl -u crympd.service -f

Change Crympd to Hympd

Crympd doesn’t have the function of choosing files, so replace it with hympd and add hympd.service file into /etc/systemd/system/.

[Unit]
Description=A minimalistic web-based MPD client
Wants=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/hympd --port 3001
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target