Discovering MPDs on my network

[talmage]

I'm looking for a simple way to discover the Music Player Daemons that are running on my network so that I can make a client that prints what each of them is currently playing. Is there a discovery mechanism for mpd?

I looked into avahi/zeroconf and found that avahi-browse _mpd._tcp prints the names, types, and domains of MPDs. It doesn't print the port numbers.

My question may be beyond scope for mpd. In that case, I apologize.

[talmage]

I think I have an answer to my question. avahi-browse --resolve _mpd._tcp prints the hostname, address, and port number for each MPD that advertises using avahi. Using the --parsable switch gives me the output in CSV format.

avahi-browse --resolve --parsable --terminate _mpd._tcp

+;docker0;IPv4;Music\032Player\064minerva\.onespeeddave\.com\09161986\093;Music Player Daemon;local
+;enp9s0;IPv6;Music\032Player\064minerva\.onespeeddave\.com\09161986\093;Music Player Daemon;local
+;enp9s0;IPv4;Music\032Player\064casey\.onespeeddave\.com\091320791\093;Music Player Daemon;local
+;enp9s0;IPv4;Music\032Player\064minerva\.onespeeddave\.com\09161986\093;Music Player Daemon;local
+;lo;IPv4;Music\032Player\064minerva\.onespeeddave\.com\09161986\093;Music Player Daemon;local
=;enp9s0;IPv6;Music\032Player\064minerva\.onespeeddave\.com\09161986\093;Music Player Daemon;local;minerva.local;fe80::5814:62aa:f4af:6cbe;6600;
=;docker0;IPv4;Music\032Player\064minerva\.onespeeddave\.com\09161986\093;Music Player Daemon;local;minerva.local;172.17.0.1;6600;
=;enp9s0;IPv4;Music\032Player\064minerva\.onespeeddave\.com\09161986\093;Music Player Daemon;local;minerva.local;192.168.1.143;6600;
=;lo;IPv4;Music\032Player\064minerva\.onespeeddave\.com\09161986\093;Music Player Daemon;local;minerva.local;127.0.0.1;6600;
=;enp9s0;IPv4;Music\032Player\064casey\.onespeeddave\.com\091320791\093;Music Player Daemon;local;casey.local;192.168.1.151;6600;