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On 02/18/2010 12:07 PM, Al Bogner wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 16:39:58 schrieb Bob Williams:
On Tuesday 16 Feb 2010 16:44:08 Al Bogner wrote:
Am Dienstag, 16. Februar 2010 17:19:25 schrieb Donn Washburn:
I built a version 2.2.2 of Amarok and it reports the reason it will not work
I stopped using Amarok as main mp3-player and use now mpd / gmpc as my main mp3-player. It is worth to have a look at it. There are minor issues with gmpc too but all in all it fits better my needs. For editing albums I still use Amarok 1. AFAIR there is a backport for 11.2
Al
Your posting interested me, so I installed mpd and gmpc, and I've edited the mpd.conf file to suit my setup, but it fails to build the database with the error
sudo mpd --create-db listen: Failed to listen on *:6600: Address already in use Aborted
I've checked in /etc/services and port 6600 is unassigned. Any suggestions?
Sorry not, but I noticed, that one have to be patient until the database is built.
See man mpd and try
/etc/init.d/mpd stop
mpd --create-db
It can take hours until the db is built. An update of the db in the background should be done in a few seconds / minutes depending on the files
check with top. If mpd is running, the building of the db is still in progress. I don't remember the error I got, when I was impatient.
If a find is running or other things with heavy disk load it can take a very very long time and it seems the updating to a new mpd / gmpc while the db is built was also a problem here. I don't know if I was not patient enough or if there is a bug. After a few hours I stopped it. So I recommend do 1 step after another.
What I didn't find out till now, is, if the the db is updated after a new start of the system. If I have changes I update the db manually with gmpc.
If you have questions you can ask at
Don't forget to be up-to-date with your covers the 1st time! Otherwise you have to reload all manually. I already said to the maintainer, that this is annoying. You also need to define the path in gmpc where the covers are from the beginning, otherwise they would be downloaded from the net if available.
A workaround is
gmpc --clean-cover-db
but this reloads some existing (?) lyrics too and searches for unfound lyrics again.
I would also like to mention, that my stereo is connected to the server a few rooms away and 2x2 loudspeakers are connected to different rooms. With gmpc I can control this with any client. To do this with amarok, I needed:
ssh -X user@sv dbus-launch /usr/bin/amarok&
Al
I just checked this last night reinstalled openSuSE 11.3 M2 and there is not a /etc/init.d/mpd script found. What/where does mpd found? By the way I lived about 3 miles from the crash site in Austin for about 6 years. For those interested the building it was near 183 and Mopac to 360 on the S side of 183. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+help@opensuse.org