[SOLVED] Cannot setup mpd

jiluan · 2014-09-10 08:56:23

Hello!

I'm completely 100% new at linux and am trying to setup mpd. after creating the necessary directories, trying to run mpd in the terminal produces

socket: Failed to bind to '[::]:6600': Address already in use

Someone here resolved it by editing their /etc/mpd.conf and /.mpd/mpd.conf in each of the separate directiories and matching their settings. I've checked and the settings are already matched for both of my mpd.conf files. mpd doesn't start at login either. What do???

Last edited by jiluan (2014-09-10 20:49:52)

WorMzy · 2014-09-10 09:00:54

Do you understand what the error message is telling you? Something is already using the port you have told mpd to listen on. Find out what.

emeres · 2014-09-10 09:20:56

Could it be that mpd is already running?

ps aux | grep mpd

Mpd has a log file, you can also run 'mpd --no-daemon --stdout --verbose'.

jiluan · 2014-09-10 09:40:24

emeres wrote:

Could it be that mpd is already running?
ps aux | grep mpd
Mpd has a log file, you can also run 'mpd --no-daemon --stdout --verbose'.

WorMzy wrote:

Do you understand what the error message is telling you? Something is already using the port you have told mpd to listen on. Find out what.

I think you're right, I typed that in and got

mpd       1064  0.0  0.1 356608 11976 ?        Ssl  02:32   0:00 mpd
root      1070  0.0  0.0   9012  1612 pts/1    S+   02:33   0:00 grep mpd

so if I understand right, is root is using the same port? how do I stop it?

also, emeres, I checked that second thing and got

(mpd:1071): fatal_error-WARNING **: option parsing failed: Unknown option --daemon

WorMzy · 2014-09-10 09:57:41

What are you trying to accomplish? Do you need to have having multiple instances of mpd running? If so, you will need to configure the other instances to use a different port.

jiluan · 2014-09-10 10:12:14

WorMzy wrote:

What are you trying to accomplish? Do you need to have having multiple instances of mpd running? If so, you will need to configure the other instances to use a different port.

There was only a single instance of mpd, which I closed. Using ps aux shows

root      1299  0.0  0.0   9012  1692 pts/1    S+   03:06   0:00 grep mpd

but I'm unsure if that's a process running and how I would stop it if it was.

Stopping mpd and reenabling it produces

server_socket: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded)
main: Found db_file setting without music_directory - disabling database
output: No 'audio_output' defined in config file
output: Attempt to detect audio output device
output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/0/pulse): Permission denied
output: Successfully detected a alsa audio device

and

emeres · 2014-09-10 10:12:15

What gui/control do you want to use with mpd? Just start it*. Since both configurations are the same, it should work as expected. And explain exactly what you have done so far, if there is a wiki involved, list the steps you took. As for the command, it is '--no-daemon' not '--daemon'.

Edit: Too slow. No, that is the grep process, not mpd. * Irrelevant now, since you killed the process.

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jiluan · 2014-09-10 10:18:12

emeres wrote:

What gui/control do you want to use with mpd? Just start it*. Since both configurations are the same, it should work as expected. And explain exactly what you have done so far, if there is a wiki involved, list the steps you took. As for the command, it is '--no-daemon' not '--daemon'.
Edit: Too slow. No, that is the grep process, not mpd. * Irrelevant now, since you killed the process.

Okay my mistake, I've started the process again, I think you may be right that there's only one instance. I'm trying to use ncmpcpp

jiluan · 2014-09-10 10:35:50

alright, I fixed it for the most part, now I've just messed up by configuring the music library wrong. I can run ncmpcpp in the terminal but it says MPD: No Database at the bottom. I checked the playlists folder and I have music there, so I'm investigating the problem now. Thanks for the help guys

emeres · 2014-09-10 10:43:09

The playlist_direcotry is for playlists, not music. Is anything inside of music_directory? Update the database either from inside ncmpcpp by pressing 'u' or run 'mpc update'. I do not recall if the database file needs to be touch or if mpd creates it itself.

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jiluan · 2014-09-10 11:37:25

emeres wrote:

The playlist_direcotry is for playlists, not music. Is anything inside of music_directory? Update the database either from inside ncmpcpp by pressing 'u' or run 'mpc update'. I do not recall if the database file needs to be touch or if mpd creates it itself.

ha, that makes sense
the update didn't load anything and I can't seem to find music_directory. I made the db file during the setup I believe.

emeres · 2014-09-10 11:50:09

Post your mpd.conf.

jiluan · 2014-09-10 11:56:47

emeres wrote:

Post your mpd.conf.

user "mpd"
pid_file "/run/mpd/mpd.pid"
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"
playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists"

emeres · 2014-09-10 11:59:46

man mpd.conf wrote:

music_directory <directory>
This specifies the directory where music is located. If you do not configure this, you can only play
streams.

jiluan · 2014-09-10 12:11:37

emeres wrote:

man mpd.conf wrote:
music_directory <directory>
This specifies the directory where music is located. If you do not configure this, you can only play
streams.

Okay I've added

music_directory    "/var/lib/mpd/music"

moved music to that location, exited mpd, restarted mpd and ncmpcpp, and there's still no music there, even after updating. Is it because it's in playlist view or something?

emeres · 2014-09-10 12:14:51

Hit F1 in ncmpcpp, read the basic keys. Browser should show your music and library as well.

jiluan · 2014-09-10 12:24:45

emeres wrote:

Hit F1 in ncmpcpp, read the basic keys. Browser should show your music and library as well.

the control shortcuts are useful, I can view my media libarary in grid mode and such, but there's still no database and nothing in the library. when I press 2 to open the browser it initiates a core dump and closes ncmpcpp

emeres · 2014-09-10 12:31:18

emeres wrote:

[...]Mpd has a log file, you can also run 'mpd --no-daemon --stdout --verbose'.

Provide relevant information.

jiluan · 2014-09-10 12:39:00

config_file: loading file /root/.mpd/mpd.conf
server_socket: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded)
path: SetFSCharset: fs charset is: UTF-8
libsamplerate: libsamplerate converter 'Fastest Sinc Interpolator'
opus: libopus 1.1
errno: Failed to open database file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db": No such file or directory
fatal_error: Can't create db file in "/var/lib/mpd": Permission denied

interesting

emeres · 2014-09-10 12:42:38

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpd#Setup
Decide which you want and follow it through.

jiluan · 2014-09-10 12:44:59

emeres wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpd#Setup
Decide which you want and follow it through.

What do you mean which? Permission is denied. Ah it's 5:30am here, I'll try tomorrow morning to follow the wiki a second time quite carefully, thanks for all the help.

Rasi · 2014-09-10 17:52:04

to make things easy, setup mpd to run as your own user. the easiest way to archive this is to run my setup script, which you find in wiki.

jiluan · 2014-09-10 20:48:26

Update, it's completely fixed, all I had to do was move my music to a different folder than where mpd takes the music from and create a systematic link between where I moved it to and the mpd folder and it all showed up in my library.

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