I agree with this. There does appear to be mpd libs and clients, but not the server itself. I want to run mpd + ncmpcpp locally as ncmpcpp is the best player on Linux, in my opinion.

Edit: I just tried compiling it and it compiles fine and appears to run, although it fails because of the lack of config files and the rest. It should work once that is sorted. I wouldn't know how to go about integrating it into maemo's system without screwing things up, though. I'll have a play around with it tomorrow and see if I can run it from a user directory, without using any init scripts and the like.

In case it's not clear, I've only tried compiling mpd, not ncmpcpp yet.