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frodoontop

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2004-05-18

Posts: 37

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Mpd problems with pulseaudio install (pulled by gdm)

In case anyone else finds that mpd stopped working with latest updates.

In /var/log/mpd/mpd.conf I found:
Oct 05 19:28 : output: Failed to open "My ALSA Device" [alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device "default": Connection refused

I solved it by (as root):
mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf.trash

After a restart of mpd it should work again.

dw

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 160

Re: Mpd problems with pulseaudio install (pulled by gdm)

nice tip, thx for sharing!

GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

Posts: 610

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Re: Mpd problems with pulseaudio install (pulled by gdm)

In case anyone else finds that mpd stopped working with latest updates.

In /var/log/mpd/mpd.conf I found:
Oct 05 19:28 : output: Failed to open "My ALSA Device" [alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device "default": Connection refused

I solved it by (as root):
mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf.trash

After a restart of mpd it should work again.

But do you know what you actually did?

Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Re: Mpd problems with pulseaudio install (pulled by gdm)

In case anyone else finds that mpd stopped working with latest updates.

In /var/log/mpd/mpd.conf I found:
Oct 05 19:28 : output: Failed to open "My ALSA Device" [alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device "default": Connection refused

I solved it by (as root):
mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf.trash

After a restart of mpd it should work again.

But do you know what you actually did?

If you have pulse installed a) use it or b) disable its autospawn feature...

for a) install pulseaudio-alsa and set up mpd to use it. for b) use google. its something like autospawn=no in some pulseaudio config file

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JGobeil

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Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 8

Re: Mpd problems with pulseaudio install (pulled by gdm)

I solved this problem by changing the user of the mpd deamon to myself (the one who run pulseaudio via gnome 3). Doing that you also need to change the owner of the files that mpd write to (defined in /etc/mpd.conf).

Ref : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#mpd