You can launch MPD as a
systemd
user unit. The service file will
only be installed when MPD was
configured with
--with-systemduserunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/user
or
--with-systemduserunitdir=$HOME/.local/share/systemd/user
.
Once the user unit is installed, you can start and stop MPD like any other service:
systemctl --user start mpd
To auto-start MPD upon login, type:
systemctl --user enable mpd