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[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roger,

On Friday 26 Nov 2010 12:58:07 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 23:05 +0000, Bob Williams wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get mpd (Music Player Daemon) running locally. I've
> > installed it from the packman repo, and edited the config file, but it
> > refuses to write the music database, even though it does write to its
> > logfile.
>
> Here I thought you were a texture techie and MPD was Mean Profile Depth.
> And yes, I do that with Linux :)

Are you saying that you use Music Player Daemon successfully? I cannot get it 
to build its database, although it did manage it once on a subdirectory of my 
~/music which only contains my classical music. Now I would like it to scan 
the whole of ~/music, but it stubbornly refuses :(

I've been through all the online clues I can find, but it seems to boil down 
to correct settings in mpd.conf and permissions. I'm running mpd as myself, 
and the permissions seem to be OK:

15:07 barrowhillfarm:~> ls -ld ~/music .mpd .mpd/database
drwxrwxr-x 9 bob users 4096 2010-11-23 19:05 /home/bob/music
drwxrwxr-x 4 bob users 4096 2010-11-23 21:16 .mpd
drwxrwxr-x 2 bob users 4096 2010-11-21 15:01 .mpd/database

I've tried various clients e.g. QMPDClient, Ario and the Minion plugin for 
Firefox, but they all disconnect from the mpd server when asked to update the 
collection. I've also tried the command line mpc with similar results.

The odd thing is that all these attempts to update the database are recorded 
in the logfile, so it looks as if it can read the music directories:

Nov 24 22:44 : update: added artists/Thelonius Monk/Various/Thelonius Monk Art 
Blakey - In Walked Bud.MP3
Nov 24 22:44 : update: added artists/Thelonius Monk/Various/Thelonious Monk 
with John Coltrane - Ruby My Dear.mp3
Nov 24 22:44 : update: added artists/Thelonius Monk/Various/Miles Davis + 
Thelonius Monk - Criss Cross.mp3
Nov 24 22:44 : update: added artists/Thelonius Monk/Various/Miles Davis   
Thelonius Monk - Blue Monk.mp3
Nov 24 22:45 : avahi: Service 'Music Player' successfully established.

Bob
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