Re: Not able to get mpd/ncmpcpp to work

[Klaus <klaus.doering999@gmail.com>]

On 09/03/14 11:41, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have installed mpd and ncmpcpp.
> 
> In the /etc/mpd.conf these are the changes that I have made
> 
> music_directory     "/home/neo1691/Music/"
> user                "mpd"
> #group            "nogroup"  (This was commented out by default)
> 
> 
> That's it nothing else!
> 
> Whenever I start my laptop, the service mpd is already started
> mpd       3304  0.0  0.0 411928   820 ?        Ssl  13:04   0:00
> /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf
> 
> When I start ncmpcpp, pressing u does not update the list, and my
> playlist always remains blank.
> 
> This is what I have tried so far:
> 
> 1) I tried to change the permissions of one or two music files inside
> /home/neo1691/Music and granted read permissions to everyone.
> 
> Result: ncmpcpp is still plain blank.
> 
> 2) I also tried changing the music_directory to its default value,
> ie(/var/lib/mpd/music), copied some music there and then started ncmpcpp.
> 
> Result: Nothing again.
> 
> 3) I tried changing the user option in ncmpcpp to neo1691, then the
> service mpd would never start.
> 
> Please help! Thanks!
> 

As Andrei suggested, try and lower the complexity one or two steps.

There is a troubleshooting guide on the MPD Wiki page:
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_HOWTO_Troubleshoot
Any help from that?

Once you get around connecting and controlling MPD, I'm surprised you
didn't have to change anything in the audio_output section, but I can't
remember whether there were working default settings. Here is my
mpd.conf (audio out through either a USB DAC or through optical S/PDIF)

$ egrep -v ^\s*(#|$) /etc/mpd.conf
music_directory		"/nfs/media"
playlist_directory		"/var/lib/mpd/playlists"
db_file			"/var/lib/mpd/tag_cache"
log_file			"/var/log/mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file			"/var/run/mpd/pid"
state_file			"/var/lib/mpd/state"
sticker_file                   "/var/lib/mpd/sticker.sql"
user				"mpd"
bind_to_address		"any"
auto_update    "yes"
input {
        plugin "curl"
}
audio_output {
	enabled		"no"
	type		"alsa"
	name		"USB DAC"
	device		"hw:3,0"
	mixer_type	"none"
}
audio_output {
	type		"alsa"
        name            "SPDIF (optical)"
	device 		"hw:2,0"
	mixer_type 	"none"
	auto_resample 	"no"
	auto_channels 	"no"
	auto_format 	"no"
	use_mmap 	"yes"
}
mixer_type			"disabled"
buffer_before_play		"20%"
filesystem_charset		"UTF-8"
id3v1_encoding			"UTF-8"


-- 
Klaus