[opensuse] Is anybody successfully using mpd with openSUSE?
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. My ~/.mpdconf contains the following lines (I've edited out all the commented out lines): music_directory "/home/bob/music" playlist_directory "/home/bob/.mpd/playlists" db_file "/home/bob/.mpd/database/mpd.db" log_file "/home/bob/.mpd/mpd.log" pid_file "/home/bob/.mpd/pid" state_file "/home/bob/.mpd/state" user "bob" port "6600" log_level "default" gapless_mp3_playback "yes" metadata_to_use "artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc" default_permissions "read,add,control,admin" # The log file grows every time I issue ~> mpd --create-db, and contains lines such as Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Lou Rhodes/2007 Bloom/03 Icarus.flac Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Lou Rhodes/2007 Bloom/05 All We Are.flac Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Lou Rhodes/2007 Bloom/02 Greatness In a Speck Of dust.flac Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Lou Rhodes/2007 Bloom/10 Bloom.flac Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Thelonius Monk/Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins/05 Friday The 13Th.FLAC Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Thelonius Monk/Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins/01 The Way You Look Tonight.FLAC Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Thelonius Monk/Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins/04 Nutty.FLAC so it would appear to be able to access my music collection, although it can't write its database file. Setting the log_level variable to "verbose" doesn't give any more information :( All the directories are owned by bob. TIA Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 :) -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Try setting up another directory linking to ~/music and point mpd at that directory and see if that works. I had the same struggle with mpd at first and that worked for me. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Mike, On Friday 26 Nov 2010 20:55:29 Michael Ayers wrote:
Try setting up another directory linking to ~/music and point mpd at that directory and see if that works.
I had the same struggle with mpd at first and that worked for me.
Mike
Do you mean :~> mkdir mpdmusic :~> cd mpdmusic :~/mpdmusic> ln -s ~/music music and then modify mpd.conf music_directory "/home/bob/mpdmusic" Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 26 Nov 2010 22:57:26 Bob Williams wrote:
Hi Mike,
On Friday 26 Nov 2010 20:55:29 Michael Ayers wrote:
Try setting up another directory linking to ~/music and point mpd at that directory and see if that works.
I had the same struggle with mpd at first and that worked for me.
Mike
Do you mean
:~> mkdir mpdmusic :~> cd mpdmusic :~/mpdmusic> ln -s ~/music music
and then modify mpd.conf
music_directory "/home/bob/mpdmusic"
Bob
Still doesn't work :( Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:15]:
Still doesn't work :(
Doesn't work? Not much to go on here... Care to give a few hints? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 26 Nov 2010 23:32:35 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:15]:
Still doesn't work :(
Doesn't work? Not much to go on here... Care to give a few hints?
In the context of what has been said earlier in this thread, creating the symbolic link pointing to the ~/music directory, and then pointing mpd to that link instead of directly to ~/music, as suggested by Mike, produced the same result as pointing mpd to ~/music. That is, it failed to build the music database. Any further suggestions? Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:46]:
On Friday 26 Nov 2010 23:32:35 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:15]:
Still doesn't work :(
Doesn't work? Not much to go on here... Care to give a few hints?
In the context of what has been said earlier in this thread, creating the symbolic link pointing to the ~/music directory, and then pointing mpd to that link instead of directly to ~/music, as suggested by Mike, produced the same result as pointing mpd to ~/music. That is, it failed to build the music database.
Any further suggestions?
Failed in what context? How did it fail? How do you know that it did fail? What error message or ?? Try to explain what you would do if someone told you that their car failed to start. You would not have much to go on. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 02:17:51 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:46]:
On Friday 26 Nov 2010 23:32:35 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:15]:
Still doesn't work :(
Doesn't work? Not much to go on here... Care to give a few hints?
In the context of what has been said earlier in this thread, creating the symbolic link pointing to the ~/music directory, and then pointing mpd to that link instead of directly to ~/music, as suggested by Mike, produced the same result as pointing mpd to ~/music. That is, it failed to build the music database.
Any further suggestions?
Failed in what context? How did it fail? How do you know that it did fail? What error message or ??
Try to explain what you would do if someone told you that their car failed to start. You would not have much to go on.
Sure, but I've already given a description of what I expect mpd to do, and what it's not doing, earlier in the thread. Namely, it should build a database of my music collection, which it is not doing, yet it appears to log the building of the database in its logfile. The following comes from the mpd logfile entry for today, after issuing :~> mpd --create-db: ----- Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Initializing interface Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Client changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Client is RUNNING Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Registering service _mpd._tcp/Music Player Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 0 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group is UNCOMMITED Nov 27 10:43 : state_file: Saving state file Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 1 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group is REGISTERING Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service 'Music Player' successfully established. Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Shutting down interface Nov 27 10:44 : listen: listen_global_finish called Nov 27 10:44 : db_finish took 0.000000 seconds Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Initializing interface Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Client changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Client is RUNNING Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Registering service _mpd._tcp/Music Player Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group changed to state 0 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group is UNCOMMITED Nov 27 10:44 : update: spawned thread for update job id 1 Nov 27 10:44 : state_file: Saving state file Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group changed to state 1 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group is REGISTERING Nov 27 10:44 : update: added classical/Debussy, Claude - 1980 Pascal Roge - Piano Music/08 Children's Corner -IV- The Snow is Dancing.flac ----- It states that it finished writing the database in zero seconds. It also claims to have added a .flac file. I have done a lot of research in various forums, and getting mpd to run successfully seems to boil down to having the correct entries in the configuration file, and making sure that the user it is running as has write and execute permissions in all the relevant directories. I have checked these numerous times, and cannot find anything wrong, but I'm also aware that I have probably overlooked some minor detail. That is why I posted details of my setup, to see if anyone here could spot something I've missed. If you need any more information to help me get this working, please say what I need to provide. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 06:02]:
It states that it finished writing the database in zero seconds. It also claims to have added a .flac file.
is the database file written? I believe the ~/.mpdconf indicated the database should exist at /var/lib/mpd/mpd.db and my system did not have permission to write there so I changed it to ~/.mpd/mpd.db and it writes. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 13:59:17 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 06:02]:
It states that it finished writing the database in zero seconds. It also claims to have added a .flac file.
is the database file written? I believe the ~/.mpdconf indicated the database should exist at /var/lib/mpd/mpd.db and my system did not have permission to write there so I changed it to ~/.mpd/mpd.db and it writes.
The path to my database file is the same as yours. Did you have to create an empty file at ~/.mpd.mpd.db or did the file get created by mpd in an empty directory? The relevant lines in my ~/.mpdconf are music_directory "/home/bob/mpdmusic" playlist_directory "/home/bob/.mpd/playlists" db_file "/home/bob/.mpd/mpd.db" #db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db" log_file "/home/bob/.mpd/mpd.log" #log_file "syslog" #pid_file "/home/bob/.mpd/pid" pid_file "/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid" state_file "/home/bob/.mpd/state" #state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate" error_file "/home/bob/.mpd/mpd.error user "bob" bind_to_address "any" port "6600" log_level "verbose" gapless_mp3_playback "yes" save_absolute_paths_in_playlists "yes" metadata_to_use "artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc" default_permissions "read,add,control,admin" Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 09:20]:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 13:59:17 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
The path to my database file is the same as yours. Did you have to create an empty file at ~/.mpd.mpd.db or did the file get created by mpd in an empty directory?
it complained but created the file
The relevant lines in my ~/.mpdconf are
similar but diff for my user/system. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 14:44:30 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 09:20]:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 13:59:17 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
The path to my database file is the same as yours. Did you have to create an empty file at ~/.mpd.mpd.db or did the file get created by mpd in an empty directory?
it complained but created the file
The relevant lines in my ~/.mpdconf are
similar but diff for my user/system.
What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ? -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 10:05]:
What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ?
drwxr-xr-x 2 pat users 4096 2010-11-27 10:11 .mpd -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> [11-27-10 10:15]:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 10:05]:
What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ?
drwxr-xr-x 2 pat users 4096 2010-11-27 10:11 .mpd
I tried mpc and: 10:37 wahoo:~/.gmpcX > mpc play 1 Yanni - Yani - The Rain Must Fall [playing] #1/1 0:00/7:24 (0%) volume: 84% repeat: off random: off single: off consume: off but there is not sound output. vlc works fine. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 15:13:32 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 10:05]:
What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ?
drwxr-xr-x 2 pat users 4096 2010-11-27 10:11 .mpd
Interestingly, my permissions are more permissive, including write + execute for the group as well. drwxrwxr-x 4 bob users 4096 2010-11-27 15:03 /home/bob/.mpd This is because of advice seen in the various forums I've reviewed. I don't _need_ mpd to work, as mplayer plays my music just fine, but it's extremely frustrating to find that something doesn't work, and not know why. As my son says "Frustrating. You know the computer is right and you're wrong of course (I have this experience everyday)." Anyway, many thanks for your input, Patrick. I shall continue to worry at this problem until it or me gives up :) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 15:13:32 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 10:05]:
What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ?
drwxr-xr-x 2 pat users 4096 2010-11-27 10:11 .mpd
Interestingly, my permissions are more permissive, including write + execute for the group as well.
drwxrwxr-x 4 bob users 4096 2010-11-27 15:03 /home/bob/.mpd
This is because of advice seen in the various forums I've reviewed.
I don't _need_ mpd to work, as mplayer plays my music just fine, but it's extremely frustrating to find that something doesn't work, and not know why.
As my son says
"Frustrating. You know the computer is right and you're wrong of course (I have this experience everyday)."
Anyway, many thanks for your input, Patrick. I shall continue to worry at this problem until it or me gives up :)
Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
well, I remember reading that mpd needs write permission in all the directories it has to use. If I remember right, I had to do some fiddling to make it work too, and at the end I managed to make it work as user mpd and not as normal user. Also, I could not make pulse to work fine, and switched it of, could it be that? Also, my /var/lib/mpd has group set to audio, not users, but cannot remember if I did that or if it was default. Try running it as mpd and see what happens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 22:11:25 Georg wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 15:13:32 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 10:05]:
What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ?
drwxr-xr-x 2 pat users 4096 2010-11-27 10:11 .mpd
Interestingly, my permissions are more permissive, including write + execute for the group as well.
drwxrwxr-x 4 bob users 4096 2010-11-27 15:03 /home/bob/.mpd
This is because of advice seen in the various forums I've reviewed.
I don't _need_ mpd to work, as mplayer plays my music just fine, but it's extremely frustrating to find that something doesn't work, and not know why.
As my son says
"Frustrating. You know the computer is right and you're wrong of course (I have this experience everyday)."
Anyway, many thanks for your input, Patrick. I shall continue to worry at this problem until it or me gives up :)
Bob
well, I remember reading that mpd needs write permission in all the directories it has to use. If I remember right, I had to do some fiddling to make it work too, and at the end I managed to make it work as user mpd and not as normal user. Also, I could not make pulse to work fine, and switched it of, could it be that? Also, my /var/lib/mpd has group set to audio, not users, but cannot remember if I did that or if it was default. Try running it as mpd and see what happens
I started running it as mpd:audio, and saving the database in /var/lib/mpd but switched to running as my username in my /home when the default way didn't work :( Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 22:11:25 Georg wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 15:13:32 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 10:05]:
What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ?
drwxr-xr-x 2 pat users 4096 2010-11-27 10:11 .mpd
Interestingly, my permissions are more permissive, including write + execute for the group as well.
drwxrwxr-x 4 bob users 4096 2010-11-27 15:03 /home/bob/.mpd
This is because of advice seen in the various forums I've reviewed.
I don't _need_ mpd to work, as mplayer plays my music just fine, but it's extremely frustrating to find that something doesn't work, and not know why.
As my son says
"Frustrating. You know the computer is right and you're wrong of course (I have this experience everyday)."
Anyway, many thanks for your input, Patrick. I shall continue to worry at this problem until it or me gives up :)
Bob
well, I remember reading that mpd needs write permission in all the directories it has to use. If I remember right, I had to do some fiddling to make it work too, and at the end I managed to make it work as user mpd and not as normal user. Also, I could not make pulse to work fine, and switched it of, could it be that? Also, my /var/lib/mpd has group set to audio, not users, but cannot remember if I did that or if it was default. Try running it as mpd and see what happens
I started running it as mpd:audio, and saving the database in /var/lib/mpd but switched to running as my username in my /home when the default way didn't work :(
of course, if your database is in /var/lib/mpd, the user mpd runs as needs write access to it. The default is that it runs as mpd and it uses /var/lib/mpd which is installed with the proper write permission. You could try to uninstall it, remove .mpd from you home directory, reinstall and restart with the default settings using /etc/mpd.conf. This is the setting I use, changing only the folder where the actual music is, so I can add new files easily. By the way, I use ncmpc, which I find a neat client. Don't give up.
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On Monday 29 Nov 2010 01:51:20 Georg wrote:
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 22:11:25 Georg wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 15:13:32 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-27-10 10:05]:
What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ?
drwxr-xr-x 2 pat users 4096 2010-11-27 10:11 .mpd
Interestingly, my permissions are more permissive, including write + execute for the group as well.
drwxrwxr-x 4 bob users 4096 2010-11-27 15:03 /home/bob/.mpd
This is because of advice seen in the various forums I've reviewed.
I don't _need_ mpd to work, as mplayer plays my music just fine, but it's extremely frustrating to find that something doesn't work, and not know why.
As my son says
"Frustrating. You know the computer is right and you're wrong of course (I have this experience everyday)."
Anyway, many thanks for your input, Patrick. I shall continue to worry at this problem until it or me gives up :)
Bob
well, I remember reading that mpd needs write permission in all the directories it has to use. If I remember right, I had to do some fiddling to make it work too, and at the end I managed to make it work as user mpd and not as normal user. Also, I could not make pulse to work fine, and switched it of, could it be that? Also, my /var/lib/mpd has group set to audio, not users, but cannot remember if I did that or if it was default. Try running it as mpd and see what happens
I started running it as mpd:audio, and saving the database in /var/lib/mpd but switched to running as my username in my /home when the default way didn't work :(
of course, if your database is in /var/lib/mpd, the user mpd runs as needs write access to it. The default is that it runs as mpd and it uses /var/lib/mpd which is installed with the proper write permission. You could try to uninstall it, remove .mpd from you home directory, reinstall and restart with the default settings using /etc/mpd.conf. This is the setting I use, changing only the folder where the actual music is, so I can add new files easily. By the way, I use ncmpc, which I find a neat client. Don't give up.
:) Thanks for the encouragement :) I think you are right about starting over again with a fresh installation, as my current setup could have all sorts of configuration changes lurking in unknown places ;) I'll have a go tonight, when I'm back home. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 29 Nov 2010 01:51:20 Georg wrote:
of course, if your database is in /var/lib/mpd, the user mpd runs as needs write access to it. The default is that it runs as mpd and it uses /var/lib/mpd which is installed with the proper write permission. You could try to uninstall it, remove .mpd from you home directory, reinstall and restart with the default settings using /etc/mpd.conf. This is the setting I use, changing only the folder where the actual music is, so I can add new files easily. By the way, I use ncmpc, which I find a neat client. Don't give up.
Well, I eventually found that the problem was mpd won't write its database file if any of the files submitted for addition to the database are corrupt (for some definition of "corrupt" known only to mpd). So, I created a new directory ~/mpdmusic which I am populating with symlinks pointing to all the subdirectories under ~/music. As each symlink is created I update the mpd database. I expect it to barf when it reaches the file it didn't like when fed the whole of ~/music in one go. Oh yes, and of course I have set the path to music_directory in mpd.conf to ~/mpdmusic. Thanks to everyone who offered helpful suggestions, especially Georg's "Don't give up" :) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 02:17:51 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:46]:
On Friday 26 Nov 2010 23:32:35 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:15]:
Still doesn't work :(
Doesn't work? Not much to go on here... Care to give a few hints?
In the context of what has been said earlier in this thread, creating the symbolic link pointing to the ~/music directory, and then pointing mpd to that link instead of directly to ~/music, as suggested by Mike, produced the same result as pointing mpd to ~/music. That is, it failed to build the music database.
Any further suggestions?
Failed in what context? How did it fail? How do you know that it did fail? What error message or ??
Try to explain what you would do if someone told you that their car failed to start. You would not have much to go on.
Sure, but I've already given a description of what I expect mpd to do, and what it's not doing, earlier in the thread. Namely, it should build a database of my music collection, which it is not doing, yet it appears to log the building of the database in its logfile.
The following comes from the mpd logfile entry for today, after issuing :~> mpd --create-db:
----- Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Initializing interface Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Client changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Client is RUNNING Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Registering service _mpd._tcp/Music Player Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 0 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group is UNCOMMITED Nov 27 10:43 : state_file: Saving state file Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 1 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group is REGISTERING Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service 'Music Player' successfully established. Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Shutting down interface Nov 27 10:44 : listen: listen_global_finish called Nov 27 10:44 : db_finish took 0.000000 seconds Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Initializing interface Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Client changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Client is RUNNING Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Registering service _mpd._tcp/Music Player Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group changed to state 0 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group is UNCOMMITED Nov 27 10:44 : update: spawned thread for update job id 1 Nov 27 10:44 : state_file: Saving state file Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group changed to state 1 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group is REGISTERING Nov 27 10:44 : update: added classical/Debussy, Claude - 1980 Pascal Roge - Piano Music/08 Children's Corner -IV- The Snow is Dancing.flac ----- It states that it finished writing the database in zero seconds. It also claims to have added a .flac file.
I have done a lot of research in various forums, and getting mpd to run successfully seems to boil down to having the correct entries in the configuration file, and making sure that the user it is running as has write and execute permissions in all the relevant directories. I have checked these numerous times, and cannot find anything wrong, but I'm also aware that I have probably overlooked some minor detail. That is why I posted details of my setup, to see if anyone here could spot something I've missed.
If you need any more information to help me get this working, please say what I need to provide.
Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
what if you try to change "~/.mpd/database/mpd.db" to "~/.mpd/database" ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 14:30:03 Georg wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 02:17:51 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:46]:
On Friday 26 Nov 2010 23:32:35 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> [11-26-10 18:15]:
Still doesn't work :(
Doesn't work? Not much to go on here... Care to give a few hints?
In the context of what has been said earlier in this thread, creating the symbolic link pointing to the ~/music directory, and then pointing mpd to that link instead of directly to ~/music, as suggested by Mike, produced the same result as pointing mpd to ~/music. That is, it failed to build the music database.
Any further suggestions?
Failed in what context? How did it fail? How do you know that it did fail? What error message or ??
Try to explain what you would do if someone told you that their car failed to start. You would not have much to go on.
Sure, but I've already given a description of what I expect mpd to do, and what it's not doing, earlier in the thread. Namely, it should build a database of my music collection, which it is not doing, yet it appears to log the building of the database in its logfile.
The following comes from the mpd logfile entry for today, after issuing
:~> mpd --create-db: ----- Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Initializing interface Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Client changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Client is RUNNING Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Registering service _mpd._tcp/Music Player Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 0 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group is UNCOMMITED Nov 27 10:43 : state_file: Saving state file Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 1 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group is REGISTERING Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service group changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:43 : avahi: Service 'Music Player' successfully established. Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Shutting down interface Nov 27 10:44 : listen: listen_global_finish called Nov 27 10:44 : db_finish took 0.000000 seconds Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Initializing interface Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Client changed to state 2 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Client is RUNNING Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Registering service _mpd._tcp/Music Player Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group changed to state 0 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group is UNCOMMITED Nov 27 10:44 : update: spawned thread for update job id 1 Nov 27 10:44 : state_file: Saving state file Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group changed to state 1 Nov 27 10:44 : avahi: Service group is REGISTERING Nov 27 10:44 : update: added classical/Debussy, Claude - 1980 Pascal Roge - Piano Music/08 Children's Corner -IV- The Snow is Dancing.flac ----- It states that it finished writing the database in zero seconds. It also claims to have added a .flac file.
I have done a lot of research in various forums, and getting mpd to run successfully seems to boil down to having the correct entries in the configuration file, and making sure that the user it is running as has write and execute permissions in all the relevant directories. I have checked these numerous times, and cannot find anything wrong, but I'm also aware that I have probably overlooked some minor detail. That is why I posted details of my setup, to see if anyone here could spot something I've missed.
If you need any more information to help me get this working, please say what I need to provide.
Bob
what if you try to change "~/.mpd/database/mpd.db" to "~/.mpd/database" ?
Interesting suggestion, but unfortunately it made no difference. MPD still didn't write a database file, although it continued to add to its logfile *as if* it had been writing to the database. Besides, the default in /etc/mpd.conf is db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db" which makes me think it expects to find a file of that name. I created an empty file with the name mpd.db but it would not write to it. IOW it ignored my mpd.db file. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 15:18 +0000, Bob Williams wrote:
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 :(
No. I was making a joke that I calculate Mean Profile Depth (an ISO texture measurement) on Linux. Sorry for the confusion. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 28 Nov 2010 14:58:14 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 15:18 +0000, Bob Williams wrote:
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 :(
No. I was making a joke that I calculate Mean Profile Depth (an ISO texture measurement) on Linux. Sorry for the confusion.
:) Never mind. I've had an interesting conversation with Patrick and Georg. -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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