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Lowe

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Registered: 2005-07-11

Posts: 89

mpdscribble (Can't get it working)

I've been using old xmms for ages, tried lot's of different players none of them really just played music. Then i came across mpd, and i'm really liking it except i can't get mpdscribble working for some reason.

/var/mpdscribble/log

warning: handshake timed out, 
warning: waiting 60 seconds before trying again.
warning: handshake timed out, 
warning: waiting 60 seconds before trying again.
warning: handshake timed out, 
warning: waiting 120 seconds before trying again.
warning: handshake timed out, 
warning: waiting 240 seconds before trying again.
warning: handshake timed out, 
warning: waiting 480 seconds before trying again.
warning: handshake timed out, 
warning: waiting 960 seconds before trying again.
warning: handshake timed out, 
warning: waiting 1920 seconds before trying again

/etc/mpdscribble.conf

username = secret
password = secret
log = /var/mpdscribble/log.log
cache = /var/mpdscribble/cache
host = localhost
port = 6600
verbose = 1
sleep = 30

Any ideas? I'd really like to get this working and i've tried everything i could think of.

neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: mpdscribble (Can't get it working)

thats not you, their server is sketchy, unfortunately. Be prepared of a bunch upload of 200 songs or so ...

-neri

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: mpdscribble (Can't get it working)

mpdscribble keeps telling me I'm using a wrong username or password. It used to work fine on Debian, but not on Arch. And of course, I don't have the .conf from Debian anymore.

I even changed my password to 'bleh', and used '2993b6b548000a80989a20549e7558a5' as the password. Still no dice. Wtf! :evil:

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Cam

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From: Brisbane, Aus

Registered: 2004-12-21

Posts: 658

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Re: mpdscribble (Can't get it working)

The package doesn't come with it but if you feel like downloading the source, it comes with a nice little bash script that will ask you a bunch of questions and build the conf file for you I built a newer version that was in AUR which is how I discovered that little beauty.

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FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: mpdscribble (Can't get it working)

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

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A train station is where a train stops.
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wooptoo

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Registered: 2007-04-23

Posts: 78

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Re: mpdscribble (Can't get it working)

The location of the global conf file is wrong. It's /etc/mpdscribble.conf but it should be /etc/mpdscribble/mpdscribble.conf

From the mpdscribble man page:

FILES
/etc/mpdscribble/mpdscribble.conf
The system wide configuration file.

This is why i had about 1500 songs in the cache and they weren't getting submitted. As soon as i did:

mkdir /etc/mpdscribble
ln -s /etc/mpdscribble.conf /etc/mpdscribble/mpdscribble.conf

and restarted the mpdscribble daemon it started sumbitting them.

I left a comment on the PKGBUILD's page. Hope it will get fixed.

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: mpdscribble (Can't get it working)

I got the message but it works for me :-)

Unless your fix is confirmed by other people OR I figure out why it works for me and not for you, I won't be making any changes.  Sorry.