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Settings
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Mopidy has lots of settings. Luckily, you only need to change a few, and stay
ignorant of the rest. Below you can find guides for typical configuration
changes you may want to do, and a complete listing of available settings.


Changing settings
=================

Mopidy reads settings from the file ``~/.mopidy/settings.py``, where ``~``
means your *home directory*. If your username is ``alice`` and you are running
Linux, the settings file should probably be at
``/home/alice/.mopidy/settings.py``.

You can either create the settings file yourself, or run the ``mopidy``
command, and it will create an empty settings file for you.

When you have created the settings file, open it in a text editor, and add
settings you want to change. If you want to keep the default value for setting,
you should *not* redefine it in your own settings file.

A complete ``~/.mopidy/settings.py`` may look as simple as this::

    MPD_SERVER_HOSTNAME = u'::'
    SPOTIFY_USERNAME = u'alice'
    SPOTIFY_PASSWORD = u'mysecret'


Music from Spotify
==================

If you are using the Spotify backend, which is the default, enter your Spotify
Premium account's username and password into the file, like this::

    SPOTIFY_USERNAME = u'myusername'
    SPOTIFY_PASSWORD = u'mysecret'


Music from local storage
========================

If you want use Mopidy to play music you have locally at your machine instead
of using Spotify, you need to change the backend from the default to
:mod:`mopidy.backends.local` by adding the following line to your settings
file::

    BACKENDS = (u'mopidy.backends.local.LocalBackend',)

You may also want to change some of the ``LOCAL_*`` settings. See
:mod:`mopidy.settings`, for a full list of available settings.

.. note::

    Currently, Mopidy supports using Spotify *or* local storage as a music
    source. We're working on using both sources simultaneously, and will
    hopefully have support for this in the 0.6 release.


.. _generating_a_tag_cache:

Generating a tag cache
----------------------

Before Mopidy 0.3 the local storage backend relied purely on ``tag_cache``
files generated by the original MPD server. To remedy this the command
:command:`mopidy-scan` has been created. The program will scan your current
:attr:`mopidy.settings.LOCAL_MUSIC_PATH` and build a MPD compatible
``tag_cache``.

To make a ``tag_cache`` of your local music available for Mopidy:

#. Ensure that :attr:`mopidy.settings.LOCAL_MUSIC_PATH` points to where your
   music is located. Check the current setting by running::

    mopidy --list-settings

#. Scan your music library. Currently the command outputs the ``tag_cache`` to
   ``stdout``, which means that you will need to redirect the output to a file
   yourself::

    mopidy-scan > tag_cache

#. Move the ``tag_cache`` file to the location
   :attr:`mopidy.settings.LOCAL_TAG_CACHE_FILE` is set to, or change the
   setting to point to where your ``tag_cache`` file is.

#. Start Mopidy, find the music library in a client, and play some local music!


.. _use_mpd_on_a_network:


Connecting from other machines on the network
=============================================

As a secure default, Mopidy only accepts connections from ``localhost``. If you
want to open it for connections from other machines on your network, see
the documentation for :attr:`mopidy.settings.MPD_SERVER_HOSTNAME`.

If you open up Mopidy for your local network, you should consider turning on
MPD password authentication by setting
:attr:`mopidy.settings.MPD_SERVER_PASSWORD` to the password you want to use.
If the password is set, Mopidy will require MPD clients to provide the password
before they can do anything else. Mopidy only supports a single password, and
do not support different permission schemes like the original MPD server.


Scrobbling tracks to Last.fm
============================

If you want to submit the tracks you are playing to your `Last.fm
<http://www.last.fm/>`_ profile, make sure you've installed the dependencies
found at :mod:`mopidy.frontends.lastfm` and add the following to your settings
file::

    LASTFM_USERNAME = u'myusername'
    LASTFM_PASSWORD = u'mysecret'


Streaming audio through a SHOUTcast/Icecast server
==================================================

If you want to play the audio on another computer than the one running Mopidy,
you can stream the audio from Mopidy through an SHOUTcast or Icecast audio
streaming server. Multiple media players can then be connected to the streaming
server simultaneously. To use the SHOUTcast output, do the following:

#. Install, configure and start the Icecast server. It can be found in the
   ``icecast2`` package in Debian/Ubuntu.

#. Set ``mopidy.outputs.shoutcast.ShoutcastOutput`` as the first output in the
   :attr:`mopidy.settings.OUTPUTS` setting.

#. Check the default values for the following settings, and alter them to match
   your Icecast setup if needed:

   - :attr:`mopidy.settings.SHOUTCAST_OUTPUT_HOSTNAME`
   - :attr:`mopidy.settings.SHOUTCAST_OUTPUT_PORT`
   - :attr:`mopidy.settings.SHOUTCAST_OUTPUT_USERNAME`
   - :attr:`mopidy.settings.SHOUTCAST_OUTPUT_PASSWORD`
   - :attr:`mopidy.settings.SHOUTCAST_OUTPUT_MOUNT`
   - :attr:`mopidy.settings.SHOUTCAST_OUTPUT_ENCODER`


Available settings
==================

.. automodule:: mopidy.settings
    :synopsis: Available settings and their default values
    :members: