On Linux, most modern distributions use systemd as a service manager. While we want playerd to be cross-platform, and even potentially service manager agnostic on Linux, we really need playerd to be able to function primarily as a systemd service on Linux.

Add the necessary code so that playerd can be started and shutdown by systemd's systemctl. There are numerous tutorials on this and examples in systemd's source code.

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When you've done, commit your work and post the resulting changeset url to this task.