Brave New "Hello, World"

Since my recently-acquired N900 has an MPD client application, I thought I’d finally get around to setting up MPD on my desktop; remote control through WiFi! On the desktop, my music collection is stored on an NTFS drive which I then link to my home directory ($HOME/Music). When setting up MPD, I decided to go through the ‘mpd’ user route; i.e. running the daemon for multiple users: this seemed to make the most sense for handling remote connections. I then linked the music collection directory to /var/lib/mpd/music and had MPD update:
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