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Re: Not able to get mpd/ncmpcpp to work



On Du, 09 mar 14, 23:56:52, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> 
> Yes when I go to browse, I do see all the folders, but no songs.
> Co-incidently all the folders have read access to others and group
> but the music file inside do not have read access.
> 
> For example:
> ll ~/Music/
> 
> -rw------- 1 neo1691 neo1691  5683395 Nov  1 02:38 [Songs.PK] 02 -
> Dhat Teri Ki.mp3
> -rw------- 1 neo1691 neo1691  8809935 Oct  2 17:46 [Songs.PK] Ramleela
> - 07 - Nagada Sang Dhol.mp3
> -rw------- 1 neo1691 neo1691  7882890 Oct  2 17:46 [Songs.PK] Ramleela
> - 09 - Ram Chahe Leela.mp3
> drwxr-xr-x 2 neo1691 neo1691     4096 Feb 12 12:27 Sp
> drwxr-xr-x 2 neo1691 neo1691     4096 Feb 12 12:27 Sum41
> drwxr-xr-x 2 neo1691 neo1691     4096 Feb 12 12:27 System of a Down
> ......
> 
> So I guess the problem is related to the directory having read access to "mpd".
> Can you specifically tell me how to do that.

Well, the "brute force" method would be:

    chmod -R o+r ~/Music/

Please note this will make all directories and files under ~/Music 
readable by any user on the system (including 'mpd') and this may not be 
what you want.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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