You suddenly obtain a time machine. Spat back to the 90’s, two items lay in front of you. A huge Dell tower running Slackware and a DVD with the band of your choice. What do you do? You start the MPD daemon and use MPC to create and listen to your playlist. What if I told you that MPD and MPC are not only still available, but also the fastest, best way to listen to music on Linux? Well, it’s true, and I am going to show you how you can install, setup, and use MPD and MPC to listen to your songs using virtually no resources.